Concord: plural 'near mer demonstratives.
Have available a number of objects, two or more of each kind, to represent each of the following classes:
M-MI
LI-MA
KI-VI
N
Pick up or touch one pair of items at a time, and say Hivi ni viti or whatever the objects are.Have the students do the same. Be sure that they touch the items they are talking about, so as to preserve the difference between hivi and hivyo, vile. Then begin to use the question Hivi ni vitu gani? When the students can reply to this question, let them question and answer each other. Answer their questions about names of objects that you have not yet talked about. Finally, fall silent and let them use this new material and/or earlier material in their own way.
If a demonstrative word (this, that, these, those) accompanies or refers to a noun, its form depends on the noun. This can be seen in the 'near' demonstratives for plural nouns:
| meza | hizi | 'these tables' |
| tables | these | |
| milaugo | hii | 'these doors' |
| doors | these | |
| vitu | hivi | 'these things' |
| things | these | |
| watu | hawa | 'these people' |
| people | these | |
| madirisha | haya | 'these windows' |
| windows | these |
(See Synopsis, par.18 .}
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