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Talking about your family in Kiswahili

The Family	Familia
Mother	Mama
Father	Baba
Parents	Wazazi
Sister	Dada
Brother	Ndugu
Son	Kijana
Daugther	Binti
Husband	Mume
Wife	Mke
Aunt	Shangazi
Uncle	Mjomba
Grandmother	Bibi
Grandfather	Babu

How to talk about your family with examples in the plural case

My children	Wanangu
His parents	Wazazi wake
Your wives	Wake zako
The people here do not speak English	Watu hapa hawazungumzi Kiingereza

How to talk about your family with examples in the singular case

My wife is farming	Mke wangu analima
Your husband speaks too much	Mume wako anaongea sana
The uncle of the neighbour has a lot of girlfriends	Mjomba wa jirani ana marafiki wengi wa kike
Your brother went to Nairobi	Ndugu yako alienda Nairobi

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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