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This 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. The most comprehensive grammar book currently available, some of the concepts covered in this book are greetings, numerals, telling the time, the Noun Class system, simple tenses such the past, present and future, adjectives and possessives. The book then progresses to more complex concepts such as Direct and Reported Speech, various verb typologies, other tenses, prepositions and conjunctions, adverbs and relative pronouns. Each chapter includes many examples and sample sentences, easy to read charts, practice questions, answers to the practice questions, and a list of new vocabulary used within the chapter. On completing this book, the reader will be able to read, write and converse in Swahili with confidence. This book is the most detailed and comprehensive volume on Swahili grammar currently available. It is a welcome addition to the growing texts on Swahili language and a valuable collection for Swahili scholars worldwide. The writers . . . have collectively presented an in-depth survey of every aspect of Swahili grammar. It is intended for university students or language scholars whose objective is to gain mastery of Swahili grammar from the introductory to intermediate levels. . . .It is ideal . . . for the independent student who is studying on his/her own, or as a resource for the graduate student specializing in linguistic analysis, and also for the avid Swahili language teacher. Users will appreciate what is being said because everything is translated into English. It will be an invaluable addition to any library that desires to expand its collection on foreign languages. . . .[The book is] a well-written and comprehensive Swahili grammar book.

Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels: Sarufi ya Kiswahili cha Ngazi ya Kwanza na Kati

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- 81

10. Swahili Noun Classes: PA- and KU- and Noun Class Agreement

11. 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 Relative

29. 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 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 Dictionary

About the Authors