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"Bad child!"
Translation:Mtoto mbaya!
May 16, 2017
3 Comments
asundeen
16
When I hovered under bad, it said "-baya". In that case, why wouldn't "mtotobaya" be considered correct?
juryrigging
397
It isn't indicating that -baya is a suffix. It is the root of the adjective, and it takes a prefix in accordance to the noun class. In this case, mtoto is a 1/2 (M/Wa) noun, so it takes the prefix m- (wa- in the plural).