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"I don't eat beef nor goat meat"
Translation:Sili nyama ya ng'ombe wala nyama ya mbuzi
July 12, 2017
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juryrigging
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Sili. It's the negative form of ninakula. Ni- becomes si-, the tense marker is dropped (only in present tense), and in Bantu verbs the ending, -a, becomes -i.
Kula (to eat) is a monosyllabic verb, and in the positive form of the sentence retains the infinitive ku-, but this is dropped in the negative. This leaves us with sili.