Swahili grammar for introductory and intermediate levels = Sarufi ya Kiswahili cha Ngazi ya Kwanza na Kati

Swahili grammar for introductory and intermediate levels = Sarufi ya Kiswahili cha Ngazi ya Kwanza na Kati / Oswald Almasi, Michael David Fallon, Nazish Pardhan Wared.

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,...

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Main Authors: Almasi, Oswald (Author), Fallon, Michael David (Author), Wared, Nazish Pardhan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Nilo-Saharan
Published: Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, [2014]
Subjects:
Swahili language > Textbooks for foreign speakers > English.
Swahili language > Grammar.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > African Languages.
Swahili language
Swahili language > Grammar
Textbooks > for English speakers
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Table of Contents:
  • Swahili Grammar For Introductory And Intermediate Levels
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments and Dedication
  • 1. About the Swahili Language
  • 2. The Alphabet, Pronunciation, and Common Mistakes
  • 3. Personal Subject Prefixes, Personal Pronouns and Their Negations
  • 4. Swahili Greetings
  • 5. Present and Future Tenses and Their Negations
  • 6. Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses and Their Negations
  • 7. The Swahili Noun Class System: M-/WA- and M-/MI-
  • 8. Swahili Noun Classes: JI-/MA- Class and KI-/VI- Class
  • 9. Swahili Noun Classes: N- and U-
  • 10. Swahili Noun Classes: PA- and KU- and Noun Class Agreement
  • 11. Object Infixes
  • 12. Possessives
  • 13. Adjectives
  • 14. Demonstratives
  • 15. Comparatives and Superlatives
  • 16. Question Words, Phrases and Statements
  • 17. The Verbs 'To Be, ' 'To Have' and 'To Be in a Place'
  • 18. Numbers
  • 19. More About Swahili Numbers
  • 20. Telling the Time in Swahili
  • 21. Days, Months, and Dates in Swahili
  • 22. Adverbs
  • 23. Passive Form of the Verb
  • 24. Stative Form of the Verb
  • 25. Causative Form of the Verb
  • 26. Prepositional Form of the Verb
  • 27. Reciprocal Form of the Verb
  • 28. Relatives-The amba- Relative, Relative Infixes and General Relative
  • 29. Relatives-Manner, Time and Place
  • 30. Imperatives Verbs and Their Negations
  • 31.-KA- Tense and Negation
  • 32. Conditional Tenses: -nge-, -ngali- and -ki- Tenses and Their Negations
  • 33. Additional Tenses and Their Negations
  • 34. Prepositions and Conjunctions
  • 35. Common Swahili Questions and Answers
  • 36. Interjections, Idiomatic Expressions and Impersonal Subjects
  • 37. Subjunctives
  • 38. Diminutive, Augmentative and Collective Nouns
  • 39. Direct and Reported Speech
  • 40. Swahili Proverbs
  • 41. Appendix: Important Charts
  • 42. Swahili Vocabulary Dictionary
  • About the Authors.

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