Go in Swahili
Go in Swahili is -enda.
-enda can take these forms:
- Enda (pronounced en-DAH.)
- Kwenda (pronounced koo-EN-DAH.)
- Nenda (pronounced nen-DAH.)
- Twende (pronounced twen-DEH.) – means “let’s go”
Go definition in English
Go in English means move from one place to another.
Synonyms for go:
- move
- proceed
- make one’s way
- advance
- progress
- pass
- walk
- wend one’s way
- travel
- journey
- leave
- depart
- take one’s leave
- take oneself off
- go away
- go off
- withdraw
- absent oneself
- say one’s goodbyes
- quit
- make an exit
- exit
- set off
- set out
- start out
- get going
- get under way
- be on one’s way
- decamp
- retreat
- beat a retreat
- retire
- make off
- clear out
- make oneself scarce
- slope off
- run off
- run away
- flee
- make a move
- make tracks
- shove off
- push off
- clear off
- beat it
- take off
- skedaddle
- scram
- split
- scoot
- up sticks
- pack one’s bags
- sling one’s hook
- vamoose
- hightail it
- cut out
- abstract oneself
Examples of go in Swahili in sentences
- Lazima niende kulala. (I have to go to sleep.)
- Mimi naenda. (I’m going to go.)
- Natamani ningeenda Uganda. (I wish I could go to Uganda.)
- Ni lazima niende Ufaransa siku moja, sijui ni lini. (It is inevitable that I go to France someday, I just don’t know when.)
- Ni juu yako kuamua ikiwa tutaenda huko au la. (It is up to you to decide whether we will go there or not.)
- Kwa nini tusiende nyumbani? (Why don’t we go home?)
- Nadhani nitaenda kulala. (I think I’m gonna go to sleep.)
- Acha kuniomba kinywaji! Nenda kajichukue mwenyewe. (Stop asking me for a drink! Go get it yourself.)
- “Ikiwa umechoka, kwa nini usiende kulala?” “Kwa sababu nikienda kulala sasa nitaamka mapema sana.” (“If you’re tired, why don’t you go to sleep?” “Because if I go to sleep now I will wake up too early.”)
- Kwa nini watu huenda kwenye sinema? (Why do people go to the movies?)
- Sitaki kwenda shule. (I don’t want to go to school.)
- Siwezi kusubiri kwenda likizo. (I can’t wait to go on a vacation.)
- Umekuwa ukifikiria juu ya shida hii asubuhi nzima. Pumzika; kwenda kula chakula cha mchana. (You have been thinking about this problem the whole morning. Take a break; go eat lunch.)
- Je, ninaweza kukaa mahali pako? Sina pa kwenda. (Can I stay at your place? I have nowhere to go.)
- Chukua vitu vyako na uende zako. (Pick up your things and go away.)
- Tafadhali utafunga mlango unapotoka. (Please will you close the door when you go out.)
- Nenda ukaongee na mwenzangu. (Go and speak to my colleague.)
- Je, mahojiano yako yaliendaje? (How did your interview go?)
- Si lazima uende shuleni Jumapili. (You don’t have to go to school on Sunday.)
- Huna umri wa kutosha kwenda kuogelea peke yako. (You are not old enough to go swimming by yourself.)
- Huendi shuleni Jumapili, sivyo? (You don’t go to school on Sunday, do you?)
- Lazima uende nyumbani mara moja. (You must go home at once.)
- Uko huru kwenda nje. (You are free to go out.)
- Uko huru kwenda nyumbani. (You are free to go home.)
- Je, ulitoka jana usiku? (Did you go out last night?)
- Afadhali usitoke nje leo. (You’d better not go out today.)
- Haupaswi kwenda nje leo. (You must not go out today.)
- Afadhali uende. (You had better go.)
- Ni muhimu kwako kwenda. (It is necessary for you to go.)
- Afadhali usiende. (You’d better not go.)
- Lazima uende juu ya kilima. (You must go up the hill.)
