Mpagazi alileta birika na pantofuli baada ya simu ya kuamsha.

Mpagazi means porter, bellhop, or someone who carries luggage.

It belongs to the m-/wa- noun class for people:

• singular: mpagazi = porter
• plural: wapagazi = porters

That matters because verbs and other words in the sentence often agree with the noun class.

The a- is the subject marker for he/she in Swahili.

So in a-li-leta:

• a- = he/she
• -li- = past tense
• leta = bring

So alileta means he/she brought.

Because mpagazi is singular and refers to a person, the verb uses the singular human subject marker a-.

-li- marks the past tense.

So:

• analeta = he/she is bringing / brings
• alileta = he/she brought
• ataleta = he/she will bring

This is one of the most common tense markers in Swahili.

In Swahili, verbs are often built as a single word containing several parts.

Here the structure is:

• a- = subject
• -li- = tense
• leta = verb root

So instead of writing separate words like English does, Swahili combines them into one verb form.

Here na most naturally means and, joining two things:

• birika na pantofuli = a kettle and slippers

Swahili na can also mean with, depending on context. But in this sentence, it is simply linking two objects that were brought.

Swahili does not use articles like English a, an, or the.

So:

• birika can mean a kettle or the kettle
• pantofuli can mean slippers or the slippers

The exact meaning depends on context, not on an article.

Baada ya means after.

It works as a fixed expression before a noun or noun phrase:

• baada ya chakula = after food / after the meal
• baada ya kazi = after work
• baada ya simu ya kuamsha = after the wake-up call

You should learn baada ya as a unit meaning after.

Literally, simu ya kuamsha means something like:

• simu = call / telephone call
• ya = of / for
• kuamsha = to wake someone up

So the whole phrase means a wake-up call.

The ya links the noun simu with the infinitive idea kuamsha, creating the sense a call for waking someone up.

This is a very useful distinction in Swahili:

• kuamka = to wake up, to get up
  
  • usually intransitive: the person wakes up
• kuamsha = to wake someone up
  
  • usually transitive/causative: someone causes another person to wake up

A wake-up call is a call that wakes someone up, so kuamsha is the correct form.

The linker -a changes form depending on the noun class of the noun before it.

Here the noun is simu, and with that noun class the linker appears as ya.

So:

• simu ya kuamsha = wake-up call
• literally: call of waking up someone

This kind of agreement is very common in Swahili noun phrases.

Pantofuli is a borrowed noun, and like many borrowed nouns in Swahili, it often has the same form in singular and plural.

So depending on context, pantofuli can refer to:

• a slipper
• slippers

In practice, context usually makes it clear. In this sentence, it is most naturally understood as slippers.

Yes. The sentence follows a very common pattern:

• Subject: Mpagazi
• Verb: alileta
• Objects: birika na pantofuli
• Time phrase: baada ya simu ya kuamsha

So the basic order is:

Subject + Verb + Object + Time expression

That is a very normal and natural Swahili sentence pattern.