CHAPTER 4
UNSEQUENCED STRUCTURES (SWAHILI)
Concord:Subject prefixes
Have available a number of small, movable objects, at least one from each of the following classes:
M-WA
M-MI
LI-MA
KI-VI
N
Using appropriate actions, substitute each in the sentence:
| Kalamu | iko} | mezani. |
| pen | is-located | on-table |
Have the students do the same until this becomes easy for them. Then teach them a few place expressions to replace mazani
Finally, teach the question Kalamu iko wapi? and let them use it.
When a noun is the subject of a locative word 'am is, or are located,' the subject prefix of the locative word depends on the choice of noun:
| Meza | iko | wapi? | Where is the table? |
| Table | is-located | where? | |
| Meza | ziko | wapi? | Where are the tables? |
| Kitu | kiko | wapi? | Where is the thing? |
| Vitu | viko | wapi? | Where are the things? |
| Mtu | yuko | wapi? | Where is the person? |
| Watu | wako | wapi? | Where are the people? |
| Dirisha | liko | wapi? | Where is the window? |
| Madirisha | yako | wapi? | Where are the windows? |
| Mlango | uko | wapi? | Where is the door? |
| Milango | iko | wapi? | Where are the doors? |
(See Synopsis, par. 23, 62)
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