The

In this post, we will look at the word 'the'.

Counting 4: hundreds

The Giriama for hundred is gana.

Nouns: Class 5 and 6

In this post we look at another new noun class, numbered 5 & 6. Nouns in these classes include fruit, such as maizu, bananas; body parts that come in pairs, such as magulu, feet, and things to do with speech, such as maneno, words.

Counting 3: 1 - 99 people

In this post, we will look at how to count at'u, people.

Counting 2: 20-99 months and years

20 - 99

Counting from 20 to 99, you use mirongo meaning roughly tens. 

Yesterday, today and tomorrow

In this post, we will look at words for time, like dzana (yesterday), rero (today) and machero (tomorrow).

Pronouns 1

We've looked a lot at the subject concords in Giriama, saying they were similar to English pronouns. Now we finally get to real Giriama pronouns.

Copula 3: being something

In this previous post, we looked at how to say "I am [somewhere]", "I am at". In this post, we will look at how to say "I am [something]", "I am".

Counting 2: ordinal numbers

In this post, we look at how to say first, second, third, etc.

Copula 2: to have

Have in Giriama is literally be with.

Nouns: Class 3 and 4

In this post, we will put together some full sentences involving mu/mi nouns, like mwezi  and mwaka.

Counting 1: months and years

We've seen the numbers in Giriama before, but because Giriama has noun classes, the numbers change depending on what you are counting.

In this post, we look at counting miezi, months and miaka, years, which are from Class 4: mi-. (Class 3, mu-, in the singular: mwezi and mwaka.)

Tenses 4: á, the distant past

We have looked at -dza-, the tense used for things which happened today. In this post, we will look at -a-, the tense used for things which happened longer ago.

Conjunctions 1: and, or

In this post we look at na meaning and, and hedu meaning or.

Possessives 1: Class 1 and 2 (people)

The Giriama word for my is -angu. The dash at the front means that there is something missing: in Giriama, the possessives - my, your, his... - have to agree with the noun. Each noun class has a different consonant which goes at the start.

Family

In this post, we will learn some of the Giriama words for family.

Copula 1: being at

In this post, we look at how to say "I am at home" and "You are at school".

Tenses 3: dza, today's past

The past tenses in Giriama do not correspond exactly to the past tenses in English.

Pronunciation 5: fricatives

In this post, we look at the buzzing, hissing sounds of Giryama - the fricatives.

Tenses 2: ku, the infinitive

In this post we will look at the infinitive form of the verb, which starts with ku-. This is the "to -" form in English.

It is used in phrases such as:
I like to go to the beach.
I am able to read.
I start to eat.

It can often be translated into English with a gerund, or -ing form:
I like going to the beach.
I enjoy reading.
I like eating.