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Almasi Oswald |
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Swahili grammar for introductory and intermediate levels = : Sarufi ya kiswahili cha ngazi ya kwanza na kati / / Oswald Almasi, Michael David Fallon, Nazish Pardhan Wared |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (463 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Swahili language - Grammar |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Swahili Grammar For Introductory And Intermediate Levels; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments and Dedication; 1. About the Swahili Language; 2. The Alphabet, Pronunciation, and Common Mistakes; 3. Personal Subject Prefixes, Personal Pronouns and Their Negations; 4. Swahili Greetings; 5. Present and Future Tenses and Their Negations; 6. Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses and Their Negations; 7. The Swahili Noun Class System: M-/WA- and M-/MI-; 8. Swahili Noun Classes: JI-/MA- Class and KI-/VI- Class; 9. Swahili Noun Classes: N- and U- |
10. Swahili Noun Classes: PA- and KU- and Noun Class Agreement11. Object Infixes; 12. Possessives; 13. Adjectives; 14. Demonstratives; 15. Comparatives and Superlatives; 16. Question Words, Phrases and Statements; 17. The Verbs 'To Be,' 'To Have' and 'To Be in a Place'; 18. Numbers; 19. More About Swahili Numbers; 20. Telling the Time in Swahili; 21. Days, Months, and Dates in Swahili; 22. Adverbs; 23. Passive Form of the Verb; 24. Stative Form of the Verb; 25. Causative Form of the Verb; 26. Prepositional Form of the Verb; 27. Reciprocal Form of the Verb |
28. Relatives-The amba- Relative, Relative Infixes and General Relative29. Relatives-Manner, Time and Place; 30. Imperatives Verbs and Their Negations; 31. -KA- Tense and Negation; 32. Conditional Tenses: -nge-, -ngali- and -ki- Tenses and Their Negations; 33. Additional Tenses and Their Negations; 34. Prepositions and |
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Conjunctions; 35. Common Swahili Questions and Answers; 36. Interjections, Idiomatic Expressions and Impersonal Subjects; 37. Subjunctives; 38. Diminutive, Augmentative and Collective Nouns; 39. Direct and Reported Speech; 40. Swahili Proverbs; 41. Appendix: Important Charts |
42. Swahili Vocabulary DictionaryAbout the Authors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<span><span>This comprehensive book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. On completing this book, the reader will be able to read, write and converse in Swahili with confidence.</span></span> |
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