Problem:IOL/2006/i5/en

IOL 2006 Problem #5 Ngoni
Below you see sentences in English and their translations into the Ngoni language. In fact each English sentence can be translated into Ngoni in more than one way, but only one variant is given here.

(a) Each of the Ngoni sentences 11-16 contains an error. Translate these sentences into English, explain what the error is in each case, and then correct it, giving for each example four correct sentences in Ngoni that describe the same situation.

⚠ Ngoni (Chingoni) is one of the many languages of Tanzania, spoken by approx. 200 thousand people.

—Olga Fyodorova