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- "Mama hajambo?"
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Catriona28475
1106
To address her directly, you would use "hujambo" (how are you?) instead of "hajambo" (how is she?)
Catriona28475
1106
It would be "mama yako hajambo?"
Why? Because, confusingly, although people ("mtu/watu") are in class M/W, relatives (mother, brother, ...) are in class N/N, and their possessive pronouns take y- in the singular and z- in the plural, just like other nouns in the N/N class:
"mama/baba/dada/kompyuta yako"
= your mother/father/sister/computer
"mama/baba/dada/computer zako"
= your mothers/fathers/sisters/computers