LESSON 24

Class 6 (cont.)

Vocabulary

uruhu - skin	uruyuki - bee
urufunguzo - key (Sw.)	uruhinja - infant (up to one month)
ururimi - tongue, language	uruzige - locust
urushyi - palm of hand	urwara - fingernail, toenail

41. Urushyi. The plural is amashyi. This word is usually used in the sense of holding out one’s hands to receive something. They say, “Tega amashyi” - hold out your hands.

Urushyi also has the a regular 6th class plural, inshyi, but it means “slaps in the face”.

42. The words uruyuki and urwara form their plurals with a z: inzuki, inzara. (Do not confuse inzara with inzara meaning “hunger”. The tone is different as well as the syllable being longer.) These are vowel-stem words, thus inz-__ in the plural (see par. 14 and 40). Observe: | uru-uki = uruyuki | inz-uki

uru-ara = urwara (since the vowel a is long, the u of the prefix changes to w.)

Pl. inzara.

43. Observe the plurals of uruhu and uruhinja: impu, impinja. Remember that n + h = mp.

Exercises:

I. Translate into English:

: 1. Uruyuki ruri ku rutoki rwanjye. 2. Inzige nyinshi ziri mu mirima. 3. Urubaho rwawe ntiruri hano. 4. Urukundo rw’Imana ruri mu mutima wanjye. 5. Uruhu rw’inyamaswa ni rwiza cyane. 6. Abana baratega (see par. 41) amashyi. 7. Mbese ufite imfunguzo zanjye? Ndashaka kujya mu ishufi. 8. Mbese uravuga murini wacu? 9. Sinshaka inzuki mu nzu. 10. Mbese muzana impu z’inka mu rugo?

II. Translate into Kinyarwanda:

: 1. The cow’s skin is large. 2. The teacher speaks many languages. 3. Where are your (s.) keys? They are here. 4. The boy’s fingernails are dirty. 5. The woman’s baby (infant) has a bad illness. 6. God puts love in our hearts. 7. What do you have in your hand (palm)? 8. Many bees and locusts are in our fields. 9. Put the teacher’s keys in his room. 10. Women love their babies (tiny) very much.