"Fanya haraka"

Translation: Hurry up

[mattooca]

Why not "do it quickly"?

[pixilico]

I think that should be the right answer. Did you report it?

[Taurendil]

I answered "do it fast" - was wrong - shouldn't it be accepted?

[AhmedBossm]

report it

[pablopublico]

Haraka (invariable) comes from Arabic حَرَكَة (ḥaraka, "movement; commotion; physical exercise; stirring, impulse; vowel").

[a.l.i.a.s.]

If the answer is "hurry up", isn't the "fanya" redundant and unnecessary?

[killearn]

Haraka means ‘quickly’ and the Swahili idiom is ‘fanya haraka’ , literally ‘do quickly’ or ‘make quickly’, neither of which are correct idiomatic English. So the correct translation (as opposed to literal) would be ‘hurry up’ or possibly ‘do it quickly’, though that would be much less common.

[killearn]

Why not 'hurry up'?

[Babu-G]

"Hurry up" would be the usual expression in English. "Do quickly" isn't normal English.

[davyvde]

Wouldn't "be quick" be fine?