KISW 301 Intermediate Kiswahili Usage I

The course will discuss more advanced aspects of inflectional morphology including the conditional tenses NGE and NGALI. Other topics that will be discussed include: Dimunitive –ki-, augmentative, comparative (kuliko, kushinda), emphatics, “o” of reference, and irregular adjectives (-ote, -o-ote, -ingi, -ingine, -enye, -enyewe). This course will consolidate, expand, and deepen the understanding of lexical items and sentence patterns.