Swahili Made Easy: A Beginner's Complete Course

LESSON 11. SWAHILI NUMBERS

28 SWAHILI MADE EASY LESSON 11 SWAHILI NUMBERS Numbers one to five take nominal prefixes the rest do not. 1. moja, mtu mmoja, “one man”, kitabu kimoja. “one book”. 2. mbili (-wili) watu wawili, “two men”; vitabu viwili, “two books”. 3. tatu watu watatu, “three men”; viti vitatu “three chairs”. 4. nne, watu wanne, “four men,” viti vinne.” four chairs·. 5. tano, watu watano, “five men; viti vitano, “five chairs”. 6. sita, watu sita. “six men”; no prefix up to ten. 7. saba, 8. nane, 9. tisa, 10. kumi, 11. kumi na moja, 12. kumi na mbili. n.k..... 20. ishirini, 21. ishirini na moja 22. ishirini na mbili. n.k...... 30. thelathini. 31. thelathini na moja. 32. thelathini na mbili. n.k...... PART ONE 29 40. arobaini, 41. arobaini na moja, 42. arobaini na mbili. n.k...... 50. hamsini, 51. hamsini na rnoja, 52. hamsini na mbili, n.k...... 60. sitini, 61. sitini na moja, 62. sitini na mbili, n.k...... 70. sabini, 71. sabini na moja, 72. sabini na mbili, n.k...... 80. themanini, 81. themanini na moja, 82. themanini na mbili, n.k.... 90. tisini, 91. tisini na moja, 92. tisini na mbili, n.k..... 100. mia moja, 101. mia moja na moja, 102. mia moja na mbili, n.k... 110. mia moja na kumi, 111. mia moja na kumi na moja, n.k...... 1,000. elfu moja au alfu moja, 1,001. elfu moja na moja, 1,010. elfu moja na kumi, n.k...... 10,000. elfu kumi, 100,000. mia moja elfu au laki moja, 1,000,000. milioni moja. 30 SWAHILI MADE EASY HOW MUCH AND HOW OFTEN mara moja, once, at once e.g. mbili mara mbili (2 x 2) mara mbili, twice e.g. tatu mara sita (3 x 6) mara sita, six times mara saba, seven times -ngapi? how many? e.g. watu wangapi? How many people?” vitabu vingapi?, How many books kiasi gani? how much? e.g. sukari kiasi gani? “how much sugar?” asilimia, percent, percentage kutoa, to subtract, minus e.g. kumi toa saba (10-7) kujumlisha to add e.g. tano jumlisha na tatu (5+ 3) kuzidisha, to multiply, saba zidisha na saba (7 x 7) kugawanya, to divide sita gawanya kwa mbili (6÷2) kufanya hesabu, to count things, to do arithmetic jumla, total PART ONE 31 EXERCISE 14 Answer in words: 1. Je, watu wangapi walifika hapa jana? (say 5) 2. Je, viti vingapi ni vibovu? (say 3) 3. Je, hamsini kutoa ishirini na moja ni ngapi? (50 - 21 =....) 4. Gawanya thelathini kwa tano (30÷5 =... ) 5. Write in words: 10,000; 555; 432; 1678. 6. Write and answer in words: 10 x 15 ni 150. 7. 21 + 60 ni 81. 8. 907 - 678 ni ngapi? ...