Kifuliiru Essentials · Basic Questions
Asking Questions Practice
Practice forming complete questions in various contexts
Lesson overview
Combine question words with verbs and nouns to ask meaningful questions in everyday situations.
Key rules
- Question word typically comes at or near the end
- Verb conjugates based on subject
- Be mindful of formal vs informal
- Intonation rises at the end of questions
Kifuliiru examples with translations
- Umukola biki?
- What are you doing?
- U (you) + kola (do) + iki (what)
- Umugeenda hayi?
- Where are you going?
- U (you) + gendera (go) + ku (where to)
- Wehe we nyandi?
- What is your name?
- Wi (you) + itwa (called) + nda (what)
- Kiindu kiki kino?
- What thing is this?
- Iki (this) + ni (is) + kintu (thing) + ki (what)