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Usages of mrefu
Urafiki wetu umeimarika baada ya kukaa pamoja muda mrefu.
Our friendship has strengthened after spending a long time together.
Daraja ni mrefu.
The bridge is long.
Tafuta kitabu chenye kurasa nyingi, ili uweze kusoma kwa muda mrefu.
Look for a book that has many pages, so that you can read for a long time.
Kwenye kituo cha basi kulikuwa na msururu mrefu wa abiria.
At the bus station there was a long queue of passengers.
Foleni barabarani inachukua muda mrefu kila asubuhi.
The queue on the road takes a long time every morning.
Tulifuata ajenda hiyo ili tusipoteze muda katika mazungumzo marefu.
We followed that agenda so that we would not waste time in long discussions.
Tunatumia mwiko huu kuchanganya wali; mwiko huu ni mrefu.
We use this cooking stick to stir the rice; this cooking stick is long.
Dada anapika wali kama unavyofahamu, kwa kutumia mwiko mrefu.
Sister cooks rice as you know, using a long cooking stick.
Huenda wikendi ijayo tukafanya matembezi marefu kando ya mto.
Perhaps next weekend we will take long walks by the river.
Hata kama tumekuwa tukijifunza kwa muda mrefu, bado tunahitaji kurudia maneno mapya.
Even if we have been learning for a long time, we still need to repeat new words.
Shati la mikono mirefu linanilinda dhidi ya baridi usiku.
The long-sleeved shirt protects me against the cold at night.
Baba anavaa shati la mikono mirefu kazini kila siku kwa sababu ya kanuni za ofisi.
Father wears a long-sleeved shirt at work every day because of the office rules.
Kaka huvaa shati la mikono mirefu kazini, lakini nyumbani huvaa fulana tu.
Brother wears a long-sleeved shirt at work, but at home he wears only a T-shirt.
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