nyama

meat

Where it comes from

Swahili nyama, and Bantu-wide

Group

Food and water

First taught

Lesson 24

In the published corpus

6 of the 1321 glossed sentence pairs use it. Only the sentences that carry an English translation are in the corpus, and it is the measure you can check for yourself.

Looked up in English as

meat

More than one

nyama-nyama — the noun said twice, joined by a hyphen. Nothing is added and nothing inside the word changes, so nothing can become irregular. The rule.

Sentences that use it.

Every one written by hand and checked against the rules. Shortest first.

• No kula nyama itu.Do not eat that meat.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
• Mi kula nyama aur risi.I eat meat and rice.lessons/lesson-24-the-table-and-the-city
• Tacir beca fruta aur nyama.The merchant sells fruit and meat.texts/text-21-uan-umur
• Tacir beca fruta, telur aur nyama.The merchant sells fruit, eggs and meat.texts/text-16-berapa-harga
• Ta tanya: "Yu mau nyama o samaki?"He asks: "Do you want meat or fish?"texts/text-16-berapa-harga
• Mi respon: "Samaki, plis. Nyama lebi eski."I answer: "Fish, please. The meat is older."texts/text-16-berapa-harga

You can also put English in and get Amadunia out, or take the whole corpus as a file.

The rest of the shelf.

• akuawater
• catea
• corbasoup
• frutafruit
• halibmilk
• kafecoffee
• legumvegetable
• minyakoil
• namaksalt
• panbread, food
• risirice
• sukarsugar

All 300 roots, or the source table.