"Walimu wanakopesheka"

Translation: Teachers can be loaned

[vtopphol]

I'd like to return the English teacher that i borrowed last week.

[PetterNord]

Sorry, what?

[Nsikan9]

Why not "teachers have been loaned"?

[AGreatUserName]

That would be Walimu wamekopesheka (or also Walimu wamekopeshwa).

When stative verbs are in the present tense, the tend to be interpreted with the "potential" meaning, "be -able/-ible". To talk about the resulting state, you'll use the perfect tense.

[Alan806886]

Does this mean the teachers can be loaned (as in sent to another school, perhaps) or that the teachers can receive loans?

[Ernst557459]

The former

[Frank529236]

Now i got it. Thks Ernst.