taka
verb
To want; to wish.
Use -taka to say what someone wants.
Origins
Taka belongs to Swahili’s earlier Bantu vocabulary. Its deeper history still needs a securely identified ancestral form.
Haspelmath and Tadmor / Lexibank, World Loanword Database CLDF (2009), wold-master/cldf/forms.csv row 48059.
Taka belongs to Swahili’s earlier Bantu vocabulary. Its deeper history still needs a securely identified ancestral form.
Open Language Resource Center, University of Kansas, Kiswahili Glossary, Glossary: taka.
To want; to wish.
Examples
Nataka maji.
I want water.
Unataka chai?
Do you want tea?
Anataka kupumzika.
She wants to rest.
Tunataka kwenda sokoni.
We want to go to the market.
Mnataka kula nini?
What do you want to eat?
Wanataka kujifunza Kiswahili.
They want to learn Swahili.
Sitaki sukari.
I do not want sugar.
Nilitaka kukuuliza swali.
I wanted to ask you a question.
Tutataka kurudi kesho.
We will want to return tomorrow.
