How to use demonstrative pronouns in Swahili

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Swahili

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Swahili? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Swahili lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Swahili demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Swahili demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' has various forms in Swahili. The various forms are 'hii', 'hili', 'hiki' and 'huyu'.

Examples

mwanamke huyu
this woman
mvulana huyu
this boy
mwanamume huyu
this man
nyumba hii
this house
tofaa hili
this apple
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Habari za asubuhi
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Good afternoon
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Step 6 : Swahili demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns kitabu, kiti and mlango (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Swahili demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Swahili demonstrative pronouns with the nouns kitabu, kiti and mlango and the plural nouns vitabu, viti and milango you can move on to Step 7 (Swahili adjectives).

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