Compliments

1. Umushi wenu wayemba!

   Your village is beautiful!

   Usage

   Compliment the people who live in a village or town you are visiting

   Grammar Note

   Wenu is "your" in agreement with umushi (class 3), and the adjective wayemba starts with the same w-. Composed from known words and sentence patterns; attested only in conversational text; native review recommended

2. Icalo cenu cayemba!

   Your country is beautiful!

   Usage

   Compliment the country or scenery you are visiting

   Grammar Note

   Icalo is a class 7 noun, so both cenu and cayemba start with c-. Composed from known words and sentence patterns; attested only in conversational text; native review recommended

3. Umwana wenu wayemba!

   Your child is lovely!

   Usage

   Compliment a parent about their child

   Grammar Note

   Wayemba is used for people too, meaning "lovely" or "good-looking". Composed from known words and sentence patterns; attested only in conversational text; native review recommended

4. Muli abasuma sana.

   You are very kind.

   Usage

   Compliment someone who has helped or hosted you

   Grammar Note

   Muli is the polite "you are", usable for one person. The root -suma means "good", and for people it reads as "kind". Composed from known words and sentence patterns; native review recommended

5. Mwanfwilisha sana.

   You helped me a lot.

   Usage

   Say it right after someone has helped you

   Grammar Note

   Mwa- is "you did", the -n- is "me", and the root -fwilisha means "to help". Composed from known words and sentence patterns; native review recommended

6. Ndemutootela pa bwafwilisho bwenu.

   Thank you for your help.

   Usage

   Thank someone formally for their help

   Grammar Note

   The root -tootela means "to thank" and "-mu-" is "you (polite)". After pa the initial u- drops, giving bwafwilisho. Composed from known words and sentence patterns; native review recommended

7. Ifyakulya fyawama sana!

   The food is very delicious!

   Usage

   Tell the host or cook that the meal was good

   Grammar Note

   Ifyakulya takes plural agreement, matching fyawama which starts with fya-. The root -wama means "good", and for food it reads as "tasty". Composed from known words and sentence patterns; native review recommended

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