"Habari za mchana mama?"
Translation:How is the afternoon, mother?
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When you see your mother (or by extention, another woman) in the afternoon and you want to enquire about how her afternoon is going. It's essentially just a greeting.
So basically it just needs a comma? --> Habari za mchana, mama? Does swahili use commata?
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If this is meant to be a support for learners to give a literal translation, then it's okay. But I don't think that it's a grammatically correct translation.
it's the literal translation but it's also correct. think 'how is the (your) afternoon mother'
I wrote ' how is your afternoon mama' and it said i was wrong! This should be correct
The word for "your" is not there, technically, but in English it is awkward to leave it out.
The main dictionary definition of "mchana" is daytime (vs night time), and an evening greeting of "Za mchana?" or "Habari za mchana?" meaning, "How have you been today?" Of course, if it is afternoon time, and someone asks, "Habari za mchana?" I think it would be safe to assume they are meaning something like, "How are you this afternoon?" But I think another English translation could be, "How are you today?", even though it is using 'mchana', not 'leo'.
