Kiranga;
Hivi neno sibling huwa halina "s" ya kuashiria uwingi?
You are born of what number?
What number are you?
(Sijaangalia dictionary but mimi huwa nauliza hivyo)
Wana jamvi Amani iwe kwenu. Mtoto wangu wa darasa la sita aliniuliza swali mwaka mmoja uliopita mpaka sasa sijapata jibu, nakuja kwenu maana kanikumbushia ikabidi nimuombe samahani. Anauliza, ukitaka kumuuliza mwenzio " Wewe ni motto wa ngapi kuzaliwa" kwa Kiingereza unasemaje?
Wana jamvi Amani iwe kwenu. Mtoto wangu wa darasa la sita aliniuliza swali mwaka mmoja uliopita mpaka sasa sijapata jibu, nakuja kwenu maana kanikumbushia ikabidi nimuombe samahani. Anauliza, ukitaka kumuuliza mwenzio " Wewe ni motto wa ngapi kuzaliwa" kwa Kiingereza unasemaje?
Kiranga ya pili nilimaanisha what number are you in your family?I am not born of any number, whatever that means.
And most certainly I am not a number, thank you very much.
Kiranga ya pili nilimaanisha what number are you in your family?
ngoja niongeze
you are of what number in your family?
The order is a sibling order, it lists siblings. We talk about "sibling rivalry" not "siblings rivalry".
Ona huyu anaongelea "Sibling-order effects" na si "siblings-order effect"
http://www.sulloway.org/Sibling-order-effects(2001).pdf
Nadhani yeye yuko sahihi kwa sababu ameunganisha maneno mawili kwa kutumia hyphen, yaani "sibling" na "order", akatenegenza neno moja ambalo "sibling-order", na si mawili tena. Huoni kwamba usipoyaunganisha, neno sibling inabidi lisomeke katika uwingi wake, yaani liwe siblings?
First of all, when asking a question in english, the convention is to write "Are you....?" not "You are....?". You are is more of a statement than a question.
On top of that.
I am of no number.
I am of a stock of the Sukuma, I am of the freethinkers, I am of those who cut to the chase, I am of the kin of Jiganga Jilangisa, I am of Bafumo nolo Basumba Batale, I am of Babinha, I am of Mkuranga, Msanga-Kisiju, Nagurukulu, Utete, Tanga.
But I am of no number in my family.My family is made by people, not numbers.
Rephrase your question to communicate in a more meaningful way.
A native English speaker talks about a shoe rack, not about a shoes rack, the singular represent the plural. That is the logic of efficiency from the perspective of the English language.
We talk about the human race, not the humans race.
The way you are looking at this you would want us to talk about siblings order, shoes rack and humans race.