kutana
verb
to meet.
The action involves people meeting one another.
Origins
Kutana is built inside Swahili itself: -kuta, “to find,” plus the reciprocal ending -ana, literally “to find one another.”
Sources3
Thilo Schadeberg; edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, World Loanword Database CLDF (2009), Swahili lexical record Swahili-19-65-1 (-kutana).
Records -kutana as a verb derived reciprocally from -kuta, “meet”. The record does not establish a borrowing.
University of Kansas Open Language Resource Center, University of Kansas Kiswahili Glossary (University of Kansas Open Language Resource Center), kutana glossary rows.
Gives -kutana as “to meet”.
- kutana (Wiktionary)
Derives kutana from -kuta (“to find”) plus the reciprocal suffix -ana.
Examples
Leo tutakutana sokoni.
Today we will meet at the market.
Walikutana jana usiku.
They met last night.
Je, mnakutana lini?
When are you all meeting?
Ningependa kukutana nawe.
I would like to meet with you.
Wanafunzi walikutana maktabani.
The students met in the library.
Tukutane kesho asubuhi.
Let’s meet tomorrow morning.
Hatuwezi kukutana leo.
We cannot meet today.
Kutana na marafiki zako.
Meet your friends.
Tutakutana hapa kesho.
We’ll meet here tomorrow.
