Kitabu kina kurasa mia moja.

Kina means has here.

It is made from:

• ki- = the subject marker that agrees with kitabu
• -na = a possession element meaning have / with

So Kitabu kina kurasa mia moja is literally something like The book has pages one hundred.

Because kitabu belongs to the ki-/vi- noun class in Swahili, and verbs must agree with the noun class of their subject.

So:

• kitabu kina = the book has
• vitabu vina = the books have

That ki- in kina matches kitabu.

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

So kitabu can mean:

• a book
• the book

The exact meaning depends on context.

Because ukurasa is singular, while kurasa is plural.

• ukurasa = page
• kurasa = pages

Since the sentence talks about one hundred pages, the plural kurasa is the correct form.

In Swahili:

• mia = hundred
• moja = one

So:

• mia moja = one hundred
• mia mbili = two hundred
• mia tatu = three hundred

So kurasa mia moja means one hundred pages.

Because moja here goes with mia, not directly with kurasa.

The phrase is structured like this:

• kurasa = pages
• mia moja = one hundred

So the sentence is not saying one page. It is saying pages: one hundred.

If you wanted to say one page, you would say:

• ukurasa mmoja

So mmoja would fit with ukurasa, but in this sentence the number phrase is mia moja.

Because in Swahili, numbers usually come directly after the noun they count.

So it is normal to say:

• kurasa mia moja = one hundred pages
• vitabu viwili = two books
• wanafunzi watatu = three students

English often uses a different structure, but in Swahili the noun + number pattern is very common.

It is the same form, but here it is part of the possession pattern, not the word and.

In sentences like:

• nina kitabu = I have a book
• ana gari = he/she has a car
• kitabu kina kurasa mia moja = the book has one hundred pages

the na is used in the sense of with / have.

So do not read kina here as ki + and. It is a possession form meaning it has.

Then both the noun and the agreement would change:

• kitabu kina kurasa mia moja = the book has one hundred pages
• vitabu vina kurasa mia moja = the books have one hundred pages

Notice:

• kitabu → vitabu
• kina → vina

That is the normal singular/plural agreement for this noun class.

For other tenses, Swahili usually uses forms of kuwa na.

For example:

• Kitabu kilikuwa na kurasa mia moja = The book had one hundred pages
• Kitabu kitakuwa na kurasa mia moja = The book will have one hundred pages

So kina is the present-time form here, while past and future are usually built with kuwa na.