"Esther anapika wali na vitunguu saumu."

Translation: Esther is cooking rice with garlic.

[William526411]

Would rice and garlic work

[machieng]

if you're making pilau, yes. SO GOOD

[Kadesdal]

Sometimes i have pilau with ketchup

[CharlyKais]

So, does vitunguu mean onion and vitunguu saumu garlic?
Earlier I got a picture choosing task where to select onion. It was written vitunguu but the picture clearly was garlic.
But there are different words for garlic and onion?

[machieng]

yes, 'onion' is kitunguu and 'garlic' is kitunguu saumu

[AndraNoelle]

Wait... 'kitunguu' or 'vitunguu'? or either?

[ElizabethF711355]

Kitunguu is singular (an onion) and vitunguu is plural (onions).

[CharlyKais]

Asante sana! :)

[ScorpioGir5]

I got it wrong because the audio sounds like Pester! :-/

[DavidLamb53073]

This is strange. "Wali" is "cooked rice", so I wonder why she is cooking cooked rice.

[AbbyCordes]

I guess for the same reason you toast toast to make it toasty.