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"I don't need to cook"
Translation:Sihitaji kupika
February 2, 2019
3 Comments
no, the negative form is in the 'si
hitaji', because what's being refuted is the need to cook, not the action itself. For sentences that have 'need', 'like', 'want' or 'must' etc., usually their Swahili counterparts will have the negative form, and the verbs remain unchanged e.g.
Una
penda
kukimbia (you like to run) - Hu
pendi
kukimbia (you don't like to run
versus
Una
kimbia
(you are running) - Hu
kimbii
(you are not running/you don't run)
Wana
taka
kugoma (they want to go on strike) - Hawa
taki
kugoma (they don't want to go on strike)
Sharti/lazima uhudhurie (you must attend) - Si
sharti/lazima uhudhurie (you don't have to attend)