"Kiti kifupi"

Translation: A short chair

[Wowza42]

What exactly is a "short chair" supposed to be? Especially as opposed to a small chair?

[Catriona28475]

Definitely a bad translation. Chairs are small, not short. Report it!

[Ahmed225638]

'Kiti' can also be used for stool which is the earliest form of seat furniture. So in that sense you can say, a short stool which makes sense.

Duolingo should add stool as another meaning for Kiti to get that idea across.

[Martin633120]

Chairs are not referred to as short, even if they are so. They can be low-backed or high-backed. A highchair means something else, of course. They can be large or small. I don't think that a short-backed chair is necessarily a small chair.

[Ciara302166]

Maybe a low chair?

[Ghalib962002]

Small chair not short chair in English

[billhatcher]

When translating to English, are articles optional or mandatory?

[John00625]

Optional, since there are none in Swahili

[TheSoundOf4]

except "short chair" is rejected here...

[ElDoctr]

That would be another article-related error by Duolingo Swahili

[MayaTheBee8]

Come on people! No-one says a a short chair

[Karin313650]

There are no short chairs, only small ones!