Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels
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Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels

Sarufi ya Kiswahili cha Ngazi ya Kwanza na Kati

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eBook - ePub

Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels

Sarufi ya Kiswahili cha Ngazi ya Kwanza na Kati

About this book

This book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. The most comprehensive grammar book currently available, some of the concepts covered in this book are greetings, numerals, telling the time, the Noun Class system, simple tenses such the past, present and future, adjectives and possessives. The book then progresses to more complex concepts such as Direct and Reported Speech, various verb typologies, other tenses, prepositions and conjunctions, adverbs and relative pronouns. Each chapter includes many examples and sample sentences, easy to read charts, practice questions, answers to the practice questions, and a list of new vocabulary used within the chapter. On completing this book, the reader will be able to read, write and converse in Swahili with confidence.

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Yes, you can access Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels by Oswald Almasi,Michael David Fallon,Nazish Pardhan Wared in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Teaching Languages. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
University Press of America
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780761863823
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Teaching Languages

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Acknowledgments and Dedication
  3. 1. About the Swahili Language
  4. 2. The Alphabet, Pronunciation, and Common Mistakes
  5. 3. Personal Subject Prefixes, Personal Pronouns and Their Negations
  6. 4. Swahili Greetings
  7. 5. Present and Future Tenses and Their Negations
  8. 6. Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses and Their Negations
  9. 7. The Swahili Noun Class System: M-/WA- and M-/MI-
  10. 8. Swahili Noun Classes: JI-/MA- Class and KI-/VI- Class
  11. 9. Swahili Noun Classes: N- and U-
  12. 10. Swahili Noun Classes: PA- and KU- and Noun Class Agreement
  13. 11. Object Infixes
  14. 12. Possessives
  15. 13. Adjectives
  16. 14. Demonstratives
  17. 15. Comparatives and Superlatives
  18. 16. Question Words, Phrases and Statements
  19. 17. The Verbs ‘To Be,’ ‘To Have’ and ‘To Be in a Place’
  20. 18. Numbers
  21. 19. More About Swahili Numbers
  22. 20. Telling the Time in Swahili
  23. 21. Days, Months, and Dates in Swahili
  24. 22. Adverbs
  25. 23. Passive Form of the Verb
  26. 24. Stative Form of the Verb
  27. 25. Causative Form of the Verb
  28. 26. Prepositional Form of the Verb
  29. 27. Reciprocal Form of the Verb
  30. 28. Relatives—The amba- Relative, Relative Infixes and General Relative
  31. 29. Relatives—Manner, Time and Place
  32. 30. Imperatives Verbs and Their Negations
  33. 31. -KA- Tense and Negation
  34. 32. Conditional Tenses: -nge-, -ngali- and -ki- Tenses and Their Negations
  35. 33. Additional Tenses and Their Negations
  36. 34. Prepositions and Conjunctions
  37. 35. Common Swahili Questions and Answers
  38. 36. Interjections, Idiomatic Expressions and Impersonal Subjects
  39. 37. Subjunctives
  40. 38. Diminutive, Augmentative and Collective Nouns
  41. 39. Direct and Reported Speech
  42. 40. Swahili Proverbs
  43. 41. Appendix: Important Charts
  44. 42. Swahili Vocabulary Dictionary
  45. About the Authors