Usumbufu umeisha.

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Breakdown of Usumbufu umeisha.

• usumbufu: inconvenience; disturbance

Questions & Answers about Usumbufu umeisha.

What kind of noun is usumbufu?

Usumbufu is a noun meaning things like disturbance, inconvenience, nuisance, trouble, or bother depending on context.

It is usually an abstract noun, so it often refers to the general situation rather than one countable object. In many contexts, English might say the disturbance or the inconvenience.

Grammatically, it belongs to a noun class that often uses the prefix u-.

Why does the verb start with u- in umeisha?

The u- is the subject agreement prefix. In Swahili, the verb usually agrees with the noun class of the subject.

Since usumbufu is the subject, the verb takes the matching agreement:

• u- = subject agreement for this noun class
• -me- = perfect marker
• -isha = verb stem

So usumbufu umeisha is built like:

usumbufu + u-me-isha

This agreement is a very important feature of Swahili grammar.

What does -me- mean here?