"Bendera ya Taifa la Tanzania ni nzuri"

Translation: The national flag of Tanzania is beautiful

[pablopublico]

Bendera comes from Portuguese bandeira, and is also quite close to Spanish bandera. Those three words are related to English band ("strip of material"), and also more distantly with bond, bind and bend.

[marijkstee]

Why is it not "ya tanzania"?

[giraffe__]

taifa is a ma-class noun, so in the singular it takes the la genitive particle https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taifa#Swahili

[Ben837613]

"The Tanzania flag is beautiful," should have been accepted. 19032020

[TheresaJoh295047]

Agree. I put this and it was rejected. Reported