🚧 Beta — We're still building. Expect updates and improvements.
ProLuganda Logo
ProLuganda

Lesson 78 Enva n'Emmere

Tulya enva awamu n'emmere.

We eat sauce together with [starchy] food.

1 / 24

0 / 3 Listens & Repeats

Dialogue

Tulya enva awamu n'emmere.

We eat sauce together with [starchy] food.

Enva kye kintu kye tulya awamu n'emmere.

Sauce is something we eat with [starchy] food.

Amatooke ye mmere enkulu mu Buganda.

Amatooke is the chief [starchy] food of Buganda.

Lumonde ye ngeri endala ey'emmere.

Sweet potatoe is another [starchy] food.

Emmere gye tulina mu Buganda ya ngeri nnyingi.

We have many kinds of [starchy] food in Buganda.

Ennyama eya buli ngeri tugiyita nva.

Meat of every sort [of stew], we call it sauce.

Ebintu byonna ebiyinza okuliibwa awamu n'emmere biyitiibwa nva.

All things which can be eaten [as to make up stew] are called sauce.

Singa olya lumonde wo n’ebijanjaalo lumonde omuyita mmere, ebinjanjaalo obiyita nva.

If you eat your sweet potato with beans, you call the sweet potato [starchy] food and you call beans [stew] sauce.

Singa olya amatooke n’enkoko, ennyama y’enkoko ogiyita nva ng’ate amatooke ogayita mmere.

If you eat matooke with chicken [stew], you call the matooke [starchy] food and you call the chicken [stew] sauce.

Singa olya muwogo n’ebinywebwa, ebinywebwa obiyita nva, ate muwogo omuyita mmere.

If you eat your cassava with groundnuts [sauce], you call groundnuts [sauce] sauce, the cassava is called [starchy] food.

Vocabulary

Essomero lino baalizimba ddi?

When did they build this school?

Ekkereziya eno baagizimba ddi?

When did they build this Catholic church?

Ekizimbe kino baakizimba ddi?

When did they build this building?

Eddwaliro lino baalizimba ddi?

When did they build this hospital?

Ekisaawe ky'ennyonyi kino baakikola ddi?

When did they make this airport?

Oluguudo luno baalukola ddi?

When did they make this road?

Olutindo luno baalukola ddi?

When did they make this bridge?

Essomero eno lyazimbibwa ddi?

When was this school built?

Ekkereziya eno yazimbibwa ddi?

When was this Catholic church built?

Ekizimbe kino kyazimbibwa ddi?

When was this building built?

Eddwaliro lino lyazimbibwa ddi?

When was this hospital built?

Ekisaawe ky'ennyonyi kino kyakolebwa ddi?

When was this airport made?

Oluguudo luno lwakolebwa ddi?

When was this road made?

Olutindo luno lwakolebwa ddi?

When was this bridge made?