Lesson 23 : Vivaambalilizi via (Adverbs of) Lulogooli

 Verbs can also be described in Lulogooli. And when they do, they answer questions as “how did the action happen, in what way? Where? Time? How many times?” and more. 

The above builds up a talk in speech or a sentence in writing, for good communication. These words that accompany verbs to describe them are in Lulogooli known as Vivaambalilizi. 

Vivaambalilizi is from verb, “vaambalala” that means “widen, open-up or enlarge”. They are compared to adverbs in English and “Vielezi” in Kiswahili.

Answering “how”, Lulogooli does compare, associates or even applies vocables as in the Lesson chart Ileseni 23a. Below are some examples. 

• Ageendaa vuangu (he walks quickly)
• Amolomaa kihiindila (he speaks wisely)
• Muoyo guduyaa dududu (the heart beats dududu)

Other questions answered are where the event is happening, happened or will happen. It can be here (aha), there (hao), far a little (hala) or far off (ila). A place name can also be used as in the examples:

• Amenyi aha (He lives here)
• Ayiinzilaa Mombasa (He works in Mombasa. 

When the locality is a morpheme, inside a word, it can only be from the noun class references, “i, ku, mu, ha”. Examples sentence is as below:

• Avitili aiaiduya (She passed where she knocked herself). 

The first “I” in the word can be replaced by any of the other three locative morphemes. 

Time is also considered as kivaambalilizi. When the action is happening can be “mumuvasu (in the day), muvudiku (in the night), muimbula (in the rain)” and more. Like in the examples below:

• Ichai kunwezaa asubuuhi
• Mulogi alogaa vudiku

When it is not a known time, word “Lua” is common. In an agglutinated word, conditional “ni” takes the time likelihood as in the examples:

• Lua aduuka kulalya (When he arrives we will eat). 
• Niamoloma kusekaa (Whenever he speaks we laugh).

Then there is number that vivaambalilizi answer. The number can be definite or not, as in the examples below:

• Lugeendo luvuguli madiku gavili (The journey took two days)
• Asoombi mazi kanyiingi (He fetched water many times)

Exercise

1. In your notebook, define what Kivaambalilizi is
2. Using the learning charts above, please add your own Kivaambalilizi to your own example sentences

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