Abstract
You will have noticed the forms mna and hamna, as in mfukonihamnamachungwa In the bag there are no oranges’. Place nouns can be subjects of the ma copula, like any others. In Unit 13 we had kuna and hakunamahindi. We have also had pana in hapapanastarehe (unit 16), and in this text panastarehezaidihuko ‘there is more peace there’.