Kiswahili Language

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Days of the week in Kiswahili

What day is today?	Leo ni siku gani?
Monday	Jumatatu
Tuesday	Jumanne
Wednesday	Jumatano
Thursday	Alhamisi
Friday	Ijumaa
Saturday	Jumamosi
Sunday	Jumapili

How to describe weeks

This week	Wiki hii
This week I have my law exams	Wiki hii nina mitihani wa sheria
Your uncle has plans to go to Zanzibar this week	Mjomba wako ana mipango ya kwenda Zanzibar wiki hii
Next week	Wiki ijayo
The food will come next week	Chakula kitaletwa wiki ijayo
The marriage is planned for next week	Ndoa imepangwa kwa wiki ijayo
Last week	Wiki iliyopita
I arrived last week	Nilifika wiki iliyopita
The event happened last week	Tukio lilifanyika wiki iliyopita

A sample sentence

I need to travel to Nairobi on Monday because I have another flight on the same day and I would arrive in Abuja on the following Tuesday	Ninahitaji kusafiri kwenda Nairobi Jumatatu kwa sababu nina safari nyengine kwa ndege hiyo siku na nitafika Abuja Jumanne ifuatayo
There is a jazz concert in Kisutu next Saturday	Jumamosi ijayo kuna tamasha la jazz huko Kisutu

Learn Kiswahili

Greetings & Introductions
How to greet and introduce yourself in Kiswahili

Family
How can you describe your family in Kiswahili?

Numbers
How to count in Kiswahili

Days of the week
How to say days of the week in Kiswahili

Months of the year
How to say months of the year in Kiswahili

Time Concepts
How say early, late, always and other concepts in Kiswahili

Question Words
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? How Much?

Traveling
Need to get to travel somewhere? Learn how to do it in Kiswahili

Shopping
Let's go shopping and see how to buy items in Kiswahili

Important Verbs
To be, To Have, To Do, To Say, To Go, To Know, To Want, To Can & To Use

Media
List of music, dances and movies in Kiswahili

Phrases
Extra phrases in Kiswahili that may be handy

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