"To win"

Translation: Kushinda

[5vZSXEt5]

Are shinda and funga completely interchangeable?
Alishinda/alifunga: he scored/won?
Alishindwa/alifungwa: he lost/got defeated?

[machieng]

'funga' is specific to scoring. 'Shinda' is to win in general. Unaweza kufunga bila kushinda.

[5vZSXEt5]

Ok thanks.but in the passive form they seem to be identical, is that right? Both mean "to be defeated", right?

[giraffe__]

they both can share that sense