fuata
verb
to follow; to come after.
Also used for following instructions.
Also to obey; to abide by.
Forms
- kufuata
- Infinitive
Origins
Its earlier history is still under review.
Sources4
Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database: Swahili (Max Planck Digital Library, 2009), wold-master/cldf/forms.csv row 33228.
Classifies fuata as a verb.
A. C. Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903), PDF page 97.
Documents following and obeying.
Edward Steere, A Handbook of the Swahili Language as Spoken at Zanzibar (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884), PDF page 261.
Attests the infinitive kufuata.
University of Kansas Open Language Resource Center, Swahili glossary (University of Kansas), -fuata row.
Records following or coming after.
Examples
Nifuate, nitakuonyesha njia.
Follow me; I will show you the way.
Fuata barabara hii mpaka sokoni.
Follow this road to the market.
Tunafuata gari lile jeupe.
We are following that white car.
Usimfuate mtu usiyemjua.
Do not follow someone you do not know.
Basi linafuata gari letu.
The bus is following our car.
Nimefuata maelekezo yako.
I have followed your instructions.
Watoto walimfuata mwalimu.
The children followed the teacher.
Fuata alama za kuelekea uwanja wa ndege.
Follow the signs to the airport.
Aliondoka, nami nikamfuata.
They left, and I followed them.
