"What does the buyer want to buy?"

Translation: Mnunuzi anataka kununua nini?

[dieprinzessin]

What is the difference between a buyer (mnunuzi) and a customer /client (mteja) ? Is it that mteja is only a potential mnunuzi ?

[Gazelle1596]

They come from two different verbs: "kununua" (to buy) and the origin of mteja cannot be found (in the dictionaries I know/use - nor my father :))
Customers (in different/other contexts) must not necessarily buy something. A spa customer/in a hotel etc. (though they do pay usually. :))

[Renata725212]

Synonyms are in every languages. I didn't find big differences in translations.

[Joanne394981]

Exactly, the same question could be why does English have the word buyer and customer!

[stevenvarner]

Man, that's a tongue twister in Swahili.

[KathyKerns]

Could gani work in place of nini?

[Carlos489970]

I wondered that myself; but gani means 'which?' (implying a choice of some specific items on display) rather than a more generalised 'what?'