Many adjectives or words that qualify a noun in their neutral (generic ) form are preceded by" -a" ,meaning that it can take the form "ya", "za", "cha', "wa", "vya" etc depending on the class the noun belongs to or whether the noun is in plural or singular form. Therefore colors can also take the form of the noun it describes. For example nguo nyekundu (a red dress), kitabu chekundu ( a red book), vitabu vyekundu ( red books), mtu mwekundu ( a light complexion person / a red person ) etc...
byki is actually a nice program, but a little confusing in line of colors.. even I got confused! what you are talking about is 'ya', that is 'of'. The reason you do not see it before red, black or white is because those three colors are not attached to any object. So rangi ya kijani (color of leaf), rangi ya machungwa (color of oranges).. but why they split nyekundu to be -ekundu is because in some cases that becomes the conjugation. eg, mti mw-ekundu = mti mwekundu (red tree). It makes a diff.
great videos- one question though. i'm using another program (byki) to practice learning swahili, and for the colors, they add the prefix of -a rangi ya (kijani) before each color. is that necessary? it's not for all of them, for example, they don't use it before red -ekundu. if it makes any difference, i'm learning for use in tanzania.
Are the words for metallic colors the same for the actual metals?
MsDjessa 7 months ago
@MsDjessa :-) the answer is yes :)
Fedha = Silver, Dhahabu = Gold, Shaba = Copper
kulmansam 7 months ago
Many adjectives or words that qualify a noun in their neutral (generic ) form are preceded by" -a" ,meaning that it can take the form "ya", "za", "cha', "wa", "vya" etc depending on the class the noun belongs to or whether the noun is in plural or singular form. Therefore colors can also take the form of the noun it describes. For example nguo nyekundu (a red dress), kitabu chekundu ( a red book), vitabu vyekundu ( red books), mtu mwekundu ( a light complexion person / a red person ) etc...
HeshimaJameni 1 year ago
byki is actually a nice program, but a little confusing in line of colors.. even I got confused! what you are talking about is 'ya', that is 'of'. The reason you do not see it before red, black or white is because those three colors are not attached to any object. So rangi ya kijani (color of leaf), rangi ya machungwa (color of oranges).. but why they split nyekundu to be -ekundu is because in some cases that becomes the conjugation. eg, mti mw-ekundu = mti mwekundu (red tree). It makes a diff.
kulmansam 1 year ago
great videos- one question though. i'm using another program (byki) to practice learning swahili, and for the colors, they add the prefix of -a rangi ya (kijani) before each color. is that necessary? it's not for all of them, for example, they don't use it before red -ekundu. if it makes any difference, i'm learning for use in tanzania.
heyyitscatherine 1 year ago