Mchungaji huwaita kondoo wake kwa filimbi maalum kila asubuhi.

huwaita is the present-habitual form of −uita (“to call”). It breaks down into:

• hu-: habitual present tense marker (indicates a repeated or customary action)
• a-: third-person singular subject prefix (agrees with mchungaji, a class 1 noun)
• -ita: verb root meaning “call”

When you combine hu- + a-ita, phonological assimilation turns it into huwaita, literally “he habitually calls.”

In Swahili present tenses:

• na- marks the general or immediate present (“he is calling right now”).
• hu- marks habitual or regularly repeated actions (“he calls [on a regular schedule]”).

Our sentence describes a daily routine, so huwaita (“he calls routinely”) is the appropriate form.

• kondoo = “sheep”
• wake = “his/her” (third-person singular possessive pronoun)

In Swahili the possessive pronoun attaches after the noun and agrees with its class. Thus kondoo wake literally “sheep of him/her,” i.e. “his sheep.”

kwa is the preposition for means or instrument (“with”). It tells us the tool used to call the sheep.

• kwa filimbi maalum = “with a special whistle”

Using na (“and/with”) would imply accompaniment (“together with”), whereas kwa focuses on the instrument or method.

The default Swahili word order is Noun + Adjective. Adjectives carry a prefix agreeing with the noun’s class (often merging with the root so it isn’t obvious). Here:

• filimbi (whistle)
• maalum (special)

Together filimbi maalum = “special whistle.”

• kila = “every”
• asubuhi = “morning”

kila precedes all singular nouns without changing form (no noun-class agreement). So kila asubuhi simply means “every morning.”