Tulizungumza na mtendaji.

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Breakdown of Tulizungumza na mtendaji.

• kuzungumza: to speak
• mtendaji: the executive; official

Questions & Answers about Tulizungumza na mtendaji.

How is Tulizungumza broken down?

Tulizungumza can be divided into:

• tu- = we
• -li- = past tense marker
• zungumza = talk / speak

So Tulizungumza literally means we talked or we spoke.

Swahili often packs subject and tense into the verb, so one word can express what takes several words in English.

What does -li- mean in this sentence?

-li- is the common past tense marker in Swahili.

So:

• tunasema = we are saying / we say
• tulisema = we said

In your sentence:

• tu-li-zungumza = we talked

It tells you the action happened in the past.

Why is the whole idea we talked expressed in one word?