Rahma aliandika aya fupi yenye koma mbili na nukta moja.

Aliandika means she wrote.

It can be broken down like this:

• a- = she/he
• -li- = past tense marker
• -andika = write

So aliandika literally means she/he wrote. Since the subject is Rahma, the natural translation is Rahma wrote.

In Swahili, the subject marker a- can mean either he or she. Swahili verbs usually do not mark gender.

So:

• aliandika = he wrote or she wrote

You know it is she here only because Rahma is understood to be female.

Swahili normally does not use articles like a, an, or the the way English does.

So:

• aya fupi = a short paragraph or the short paragraph, depending on context

The sentence does not need a separate word for a.

Aya can mean paragraph, but in other contexts it can also mean verse, especially in religious or literary language.

In this sentence, aya fupi is understood as a short paragraph.

So the exact meaning depends on context.

In Swahili, adjectives usually come after the noun they describe.

So:

• aya fupi = literally paragraph short
• natural English = short paragraph

This noun + adjective order is very common in Swahili.

Yenye means something like that has, with, or containing.

So:

• aya fupi yenye koma mbili na nukta moja means
• a short paragraph that has two commas and one period

In smoother English, this is often translated as:

• a short paragraph with two commas and one period

Yenye is an agreeing form based on the noun it describes.

Here it refers back to aya, which belongs to the N class in Swahili noun classes. For that class, the form used is yenye.

So:

• aya ... yenye ... = a paragraph ... that has ...

If the noun belonged to a different class, the form would change.

Sometimes Swahili can express with using na, but here yenye is more precise because it means having/containing and clearly modifies aya.

So:

• yenye koma mbili na nukta moja = having two commas and one period

It emphasizes that the paragraph contains those punctuation marks.

• koma = comma
• nukta = period / full stop / dot

In this sentence:

• koma mbili = two commas
• nukta moja = one period

Depending on context, nukta can also mean dot or point.

In Swahili, numbers usually come after the noun.

So:

• koma mbili = two commas
• nukta moja = one period

This is the normal word order.

Many Swahili nouns in the N class have the same form in singular and plural, or at least do not change in an obvious way.

So:

• koma can mean comma or commas
• nukta can mean period or periods

The number word tells you whether the meaning is singular or plural:

• koma mbili = two commas
• nukta moja = one period

Na means and here.

So:

• koma mbili na nukta moja = two commas and one period

This is a very common use of na to connect nouns.

Yes. The structure is very natural:

• Rahma = subject
• aliandika = verb
• aya fupi = object + adjective
• yenye koma mbili na nukta moja = phrase describing the paragraph

So the sentence follows a common Swahili pattern:

Subject + Verb + Object + Description

A very literal translation would be:

Rahma wrote paragraph short having commas two and period one.

That sounds unnatural in English, but it helps show the Swahili structure.

A natural English translation is:

Rahma wrote a short paragraph with two commas and one period.

It is pronounced approximately:

ah-lee-ahn-DEE-kah

A rough breakdown:

• a as in father
• li as lee
• an as ahn
• di as dee
• ka as kah

Swahili pronunciation is usually quite regular, and each vowel is normally pronounced clearly.