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SWAHILI BOOK CONTENTS- A RESEARCH

There are three demonstratives in Swahili
Position of the word /pia/ 'also'
Position of the word /tu/ 'only'
In sentences that have to do with location, one of the
locative stems /-ko/ or /-po/ is used, and not /ni/
The four points of the compass take the same concordial agreements as /nchi/
The words /kati/ and /karibu/ take those same concords.
The negative counterparts of the locative (e.g. /iko/) are
formed with the negative prefix /ha/ (e.g. /haiko/)
The word /mbali/ 'far' is followed by /na/ which corresponds to 'from' in the
English equivalents.
The third person singular personal subject prefix is /a/, and /na/ is a present tense
prefix.
The negative of the present tense of verbs
The interrogative word /upi/ 'which?' consists of the stem /pi/
and the prefix /u/, in concord with the class 3 noun /m ji/
The word /ipi/ 'which?' has the prefix /i/, in concord with the class 4
noun /miji/.
The word /gani/ 'what?' does not change its form to agree with nouns
Infinitives and subjunctives
Strong adjectives
The plurals of nouns
Comparisons of equality and inequality
'What time is it now?'
Telling time: hours
The interrogative words /nani/ 'who?' and 6 /nini/ 'what?'
An important use of the infinitive in Swahili
Numbers
Larger numbers
'There is'
The /li/ tense
The possessive stems
'There was', 'I had'
Object prefixes for the inanimate classes

Past negative
More on infinitives
The /ta/ tense
The word /ndiyo/ is an emphatic counterpart of the copula /ni/.
The /ki/ tense
Notes on adjectives
Further notes on prefixes
The relative prefixes
The stem extension /w/ used with passive verbs
The /amba/ relative construction
Further illustrations of the /ki/ tense
The word /pana/ 'there is'
The stem /enye/ 'having, with, which has'
Some subjunctive forms
The relative of the /ta/ tense
The relative prefix /po/
The element /an/ has reciprocal meaning
Concords which are used with names for animals, birds, and
fish
Nouns which are related to verbs

The locative enclitic /ni/

One-word negative relative form in the present tense
Further examples of nouns related to verbs
Further examples of nouns which are related to verbs
Ordinal numbers
Specification of time relationships
The applicative extension