Unaendeleaje?

how have you been doing?

Questions & Answers about Unaendeleaje?

What does Unaendeleaje? literally break down to?

It can be broken into parts:

• u- = you (singular)
• -na- = a present-time marker
• endelea = continue / go on / proceed
• -je = how?

So the literal idea is something like How are you continuing? or How are you proceeding?

In natural English, it usually means How are you doing? or How are things going?

Why is how at the end instead of the beginning?

Because Swahili can ask how by attaching -je to the end of a verb.

So Unaendeleaje? is structurally like:

• you are continuing + how

This is normal in Swahili.

A very similar version is:

• Unaendelea vipi?

Here, vipi is a separate word meaning how. Both forms are understandable, but -je is a neat built-in way to ask the question.

Is this a greeting, or is it asking about actual progress in something?