"Mji mkubwa"
Translation:Big town
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I put mti mbkuwa and it marked it correct. The audio is not great on this one.
Shouldn't this be 'Mji kubwa/nkubwa', considering the noun is an object and not a living thing?
A "village" is pretty explicitly small, so a "big village" sounds a bit strange.
In any case, Swahili has words that reflect three different sizes of urban areas. The translations I'm giving here are approximate:
kijiji / vijiji "village"
mji / miji "town"
jiji / majiji "city"
So, "big village", forgetting for a moment that it doesn't really make much sense (see below) would probably be kijiji kikubwa.
I guess you could say "big village" to describe a town or a city that has the feel or characteristics of a village (everyone knows everyone, etc.), but I really don't know if that would be idiomatic in Swahili.
There's a figure of speech called oxymoron, in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect. Some usage notes in the Wiktionary entry.
