"Our roads are bad"

Translation: Barabara zetu ni mbaya

[ndl6er]

mbaya for plural? why not wabaya?

[Isabel149881]

I have the same question

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Etymology (barabara)

Possibly from Arabic بَرّ (barr, “land, earth”).

Noun

barabara (n class, plural barabara)

1) road (strip of land made suitable for travel)

maisha ni barabara ndefu‎

life is a long road

From Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barabara

(I think I have already post this entry from Wiktionary, but not I am not really sure) ;)

[juryrigging]

I think you have. I remember seeing it, but I can't remember if I looked it up or if it was from one of your posts.

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

I remember I have read the entry before and maybe then I did not want to add many post without etymology or class description, now I see this entry was edited. I also remember the photo. I think I have a serious problem now not only to remind the vocabulary in the course but also all I have posted. ;)

I did not want to make a list of exercises and posts published by unit, and perhaps I should. It is interesting but troubling how Duolingo changes the list of sentences during Timed practices in a skill. I needed to review this one, and just trying to reach at least ten correct answers. o.O

[clh335763]

Thanks for your efforts thus far! If you do make such a list please share it, (I) will be interested
ps it should be "remember" instead of "remind" for the twelfth last word of your first paragraph.

[CeeCeeSong]

So much of this language is from Arabic and Farsi. From what I know so far, I would say even more than from English loan words. (replying to Diego Javi)

[CeeCeeSong]

OMG! One frustration after another!!! I put vibaya because "roads" is plural--wrong! WHY? Some things about this language makes so much sense, and other things make no kind of sense at all!!