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Learn Hardcore Swahili: kufunga - to fasten

Hardcore Swahili
/Lesson 56
/kufunga

kufunga

Word

kufunga

Meaning

to fasten

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

Course

Hardcore Swahili

Lesson

Usages of kufunga

Kabla hujateremka kwenye bwawa, hakikisha umefunga vizuri kifungo cha shati lako.

Before you go down into the pool, make sure you have fastened your shirt button well.

Kama ungekuwa umepata bisibisi jana, ungeweza kufunga skrubu zile ndogo.

If you had found a screwdriver yesterday, you would have been able to fasten those small screws.

Kama fundi angekuwa amefunga skrubu zote vizuri, kiti kisingetikisika sasa.

If the worker had tightened all the screws properly, the chair would not be shaking now.

Nimefunga zipu ya koti langu, lakini kola ya blauzi ya Amina bado imekunjika.

I have zipped up my coat, but the collar of Amina’s blouse is still folded.

Akiwa amefunga zipu ya koti na kuvaa skafu vizuri, baba hakuhisi baridi ya asubuhi.

With his coat zipped up and his scarf on properly, father did not feel the morning cold.

Katibu ametumia stapla kufunga nakala mbili za mkataba.

The secretary has used a stapler to fasten two copies of the contract.

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