"Shimoni ndimo nyoka aliingia"
Translation:A hole indeed is where a snake entered
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To help non-English speakers out, the grammar of the English is incorrect and this use of 'indeed' is a little antiquated and quite an idiomatic construction. It needs to read 'a hole is indeed where' to read naturally (if a little poshly) in English. The placement of the 'indeed' before 'is' places the stress un-naturally on 'hole' rather than 'where'.
If you want the stress to fall on 'hole' rather than 'where', you would need to phrase it 'indeed, a hole is where'.
In context, the phrase 'a hole is indeed where a snake entered' would be an affirmative (almost proud) response to someone getting the answer to a puzzling question right. The phrase 'Indeed, a hole is where' would be used if you were saying something about the hole beforehand, wanted to emphasise that the hole is troublesome, and so gave the example of the snake entering.
Either way though, the grammar of the answer is wrong in English. Reported again: 17/7/20