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🕒 How do we Express the Future in Swahili?

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HinzundKunz profile picture HinzundKunzMay 2022
Swahili has a syllable slot for tenses, which you can fill with the appropriate syllable. -ni is for present tense, -ta- is for future, -me- for present perfect, and -li- for past tense. Example:
ni-na-kula = I am eating.
ni-ta-kula = I will eat.
ni-me-kula = I have eaten (present perfect)
ni-li-kula = I ate (past tense)

The whole thing is very regular, so you should be able to build your own words easily.