Welcome to the third Swahili lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed bygrammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Swahili to help you practice your daily phrases.
potatoes  viazi | tomatoes nyanya | onions vitunguu | carrots karoti |
fruits matunda | apples tofaa | bananas ndizi | oranges machungwa |
Nouns Grammar Rules
In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.
| Grammar + Rules | Swahili |
|---|---|
| do you have milk? [verb + noun] | je, una maziwa? |
| I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] | nina maziwa na kahawa |
| he has three apples [number + plural noun] | ana tofaa tatu |
| she only has one apple [number + singular noun] | ana tofaa moja tu |
| we live in a small house [adjective + noun] | tunaishi katika nyumba ndogo |
| I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] | ninapenda kiamsha kinywa chetu |
The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.
bread mkate | milk maziwa | butter siagi | cheese jibini/chizi |
coffee kahawa | sandwich sandwichi | meat nyama | chicken kuku |
fish samaki | breakfast kifungua kinywa | lunch chakula cha mchana | dinner chakula cha jioni |
Conversation in Swahili
Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.
| English | Swahili |
|---|---|
| Do you speak (English/ Swahili)? | je, unafahamu kizungu, kiswahili? |
| Just a little | kidogo tu |
| I like Swahili | naupenda lugha ya kiswahili |
| Can I practice with you? | ninaweza kufanya mazoezi na wewe? |
| How old are you? | una miaka mingapi? |
| I'm thirty three years old | mimi nina umri wa miaka thelathini na tatu |
| It was nice talking to you | nimefurahi kuzungumza na wewe |
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