Tafadhali weka nukuu fupi kutoka kwenye kitabu chako ndani ya insha.

Yes. Weka is the imperative form of kuweka (to put / place / include).

In Swahili, commands usually do not need an explicit subject pronoun, so you is understood. That is normal.

• Weka ... = Put / include ...
• If speaking to more than one person, you would usually say wekeni.

So the sentence is a polite instruction addressed to one person.

Tafadhali means please. It makes the command sound polite.

Without tafadhali, the sentence would still be grammatical, but it would sound more direct.

You can often place tafadhali at the beginning, which is very common in instructions and requests:

• Tafadhali weka ...

Because in Swahili, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• nukuu fupi = a short quotation
• literally: quotation short

That noun-then-adjective order is very common in Swahili:

• kitabu kikubwa = big book
• mtoto mdogo = small child

Here nukuu means a quotation, quoted passage, or excerpt taken from a source.

In a school or essay context, it usually means a piece of text that you include from a book or another written source.

So it is not just any sentence from the book; it is something you are deliberately citing.

That is because adjectives in Swahili agree with the noun class of the noun they describe, and with nukuu, the form here is simply fupi.

For a learner, the important thing is to remember the phrase as:

• nukuu fupi = short quotation

Not every adjective shows agreement in a way that is easy to see at first glance, so sometimes the form looks unchanged.

Because possessives in Swahili agree with the thing possessed, not with the person who owns it.

Kitabu belongs to noun class 7, so your must take the class-7 possessive form:

• kitabu chako = your book

Compare:

• vitabu vyako = your books
• nyumba yako = your house

So chako matches kitabu, not the person being spoken to.

The key parts are:

• kutoka = from / coming from
• kwenye kitabu chako = in / on / from your book, depending on context

Together, kutoka kwenye kitabu chako means from your book.

So this phrase tells you the source of the quotation.

They are similar, but they are doing different jobs here.

• kwenye kitabu chako is part of the source phrase after kutoka:
  from your book
• ndani ya insha tells where the quotation should be placed:
  inside the essay

So the sentence is basically saying:

• take the quotation from the book
• put it inside the essay

Also, ndani ya emphasizes inside, while kwenye is broader and can mean in / on / at, depending on context.

You could, but the nuance changes.

• weka means put / place / include
• andika means write

In essay instructions, weka nukuu ... ndani ya insha sounds like include a quotation in the essay.

If you say andika nukuu, it can sound more like write out a quotation. That is not wrong in some contexts, but weka is better when the idea is inserting or including the quotation in the essay.

Because Swahili often places location or destination phrases after the main object.

The core idea is:

• Tafadhali weka nukuu fupi = Please include a short quotation
• kutoka kwenye kitabu chako = from your book
• ndani ya insha = in the essay

So the sentence builds naturally by giving:

1. the action,
2. the thing being included,
3. the source,
4. the place where it should go.

Swahili does not have articles like a and the in the same way English does.

So insha can mean:

• an essay
• the essay

The exact meaning depends on context. In a classroom instruction, it will often be understood as the essay you are working on.

That is very normal in Swahili: context does the job that English articles often do.

Often yes.

You may hear:

• kutoka kwenye kitabu chako
• kutoka katika kitabu chako

Both can work. Very generally:

• kwenye is common and natural in everyday usage
• katika can sound a bit more formal or written

So the original sentence is perfectly natural, but katika is also something you should recognize.