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- "Tembea kijijini"
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A location used with kutembea is generally the location, not the destination, so it's basically "Walk in the village."
To say "to", you can add the word kwenda:
Tembea kwenda kijijni. = Walk to the village.
Why are so many expressions here seemingly wrong ? A Kenyan friend of mine told me that sometimes one should use ongea instead of sema, kiasi instead of kidogo, that one shouldn't omit the ku- in kunywa, and many other things. Are the expressions that are being used here some sort of dialectical expressions different from standard Swahili? And which place speaks the so-called standard Swahili?
This course generally teaches Tanzanian Swahili, which, as I understand it, is considered more standard.
Kula is acceptable.The verb is -la which becomes kula (the act of eating) just like -oga(to bathe) kuoga
If you substitute "Arusha" for "kijijini", tulitembea Arusha can only mean we walked around in Arusha, and if you wanted to say you walked to Arusha, you could say "tulitembea mpaka Arusha". If you were emphasizing the walking aspect, you could add/insert "kwa miguu"
