pia
adverb
also; too.
Use pia to add another person, thing or action. It can follow a pronoun or appear later in a clause.
Origins
Pia has a long record in Swahili. Nineteenth-century usage includes “entirely” and “all”; by the early twentieth century it is also documented as “also”, with a wider range of positions than na.
Charles Sacleux, Grammaire des dialectes Swahilis (1909), 344.
Unlike na, pia can occur after a verb as well as with a pronoun. Pia is recorded for entirely/all in 1884 and also in 1909.
Edward Steere, A Handbook of the Swahili Language as Spoken at Zanzibar (1884), 401.
Pia is recorded for entirely/all in 1884 and also in 1909.
Examples
Mimi pia nitakuja.
I will come too.
Yeye pia anasoma Kiswahili.
She is learning Swahili too.
Ninataka maji pia.
I want water too.
Tulinunua matunda pia.
We bought fruit too.
Watoto pia wamefika.
The children have arrived too.
Unaweza kusubiri hapa pia.
You can wait here too.
Nitakupigia simu kesho pia.
I will call you tomorrow too.
Dada yangu pia anafanya kazi hapa.
My sister works here too.
Mimi pia nimefika.
I have arrived too.
