fua dafu

Swahili

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “to husk coconuts?”)

Verb

-fua dafu (infinitive kufua dafu)

1. to be able, to succeed
   • 2022, Muungano wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar: Chimbuko, Misingi na Maendeleo, Serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, →ISBN:

     Mara ya tatu na ya mwisho, Liti kutokana na kusalitiwa na mmoja wa washirika wake, hakufua dafu tena kwa Wajerumani ambao walimkamata yeye na mume wake, Nyalandu Mtinangi, wakauawa.

     The third and last time, Liti —due to betrayal by one of her partners— once more did not succeed against the Germans, who arrested her and her husband Nyalandu Mtinangi, and they were killed.

Conjugation

Conjugation of -fua dafu: see -fua.