"Anaongeza bei"

Translation: He is increasing the price

[BB8eZ2Cd]

there are not two present tenses in Kiswahili as there are in English - the present and the present continuous, so both of these translations should be acceptable. e.g. In English one can say "he increases the price every Friday" or " he is increasing the price day by day"

[AGreatUserName]

Well, there are actually kind of three ...

anaongeza
aongeza
yeye huongeza

... but they don't line up easily to English forms, so yeah, both should be accepted. We just have to report these things till they eventually get fixed. Hit the report button!

[Catriona28475]

What does "aongeza" mean?

[AGreatUserName]

It's mostly only used in newspaper headlines now or describing what happens in the plot of something.

[giraffe__]

it's the gnomic tense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomic_aspect

[CeeCeeSong]

the idiom is raising the price...would this be an acceptable answer?

[Catriona28475]

"raising the price" sounds better than "increasing the price" to my English ear. I'd report that it should also be accepted.

[MorwennaGr1]

I would say "putting up the price" is more natural than "increasing the price".

[machieng]

I disagree with that, 'put up' doesn't mean 'increase'

[MorwennaGr1]

In British English 'put up the price' means 'raise the price'.