Şunu aradınız:: nilifikiri (Svahili - İngilizce)

nilifikiri
i thought

nilishapoteza tumaini la kuwa siku moja nitarudi tena shuleni, na nilifikiri kuwa mwimbaji badala yake.
i have lost hope that i might still go back to school, and i thought to myself that i would be a singer instead.

mwanzoni nilifikiri anataka kuteka gari, au alitaka kunifanya nijisikie wasiwasi kwa kuingia kwenye gari?
i initially thought he wanted to do a carjacking, or was he just trying to make me uncomfortable by getting into the car?

akawa na hasira na akaanza kunipigia kelele kwamba kwa nini nilifikiri bei ingepungua –aliniambia bei na alitegemea ningetakiwa kuikubali na blah blah blah.
he got angry and started screaming at me that why would i assume the price could change - he told me the price and i should have accepted it and blah blah blah.

miaka minane iliyopita, nilimpigia kura ralph nader kwa sababu nilifikiri kuwa hapakuwa na tofauti kubwa kati ya vyama vya democrat an republicanm kwenye masuala muhimu.
eight years ago, i voted for ralph nader because i thought there really wasn’t much of a difference between democrats and republicans on the major issues.

nilipokuwa mtoto mchanga nilisema kitoto, nilifahamu kitoto, nilifikiri kitoto. lakini sasa, maadam mimi ni mtu mzima, mambo ya kitoto nimeyaacha.
when i was a child, i spake as a child, i understood as a child, i thought as a child: but when i became a man, i put away childish things.

kila mmoja anaonekana kusema ah alikufa akiwa bado kijana wa miaka 50, na nilifikiri pia kwamba katika uganda wastani wa umri wa kuishi ni miaka 50. je unajua kuwa katika afrika kufa kwa uzee ni historia?
everyone seemed to say oh he died young at 50, and then i thought that actually in uganda life expectancy is at 50. do you know in many african countries dying of old age is almost history?

@usiful_me: kwa hiyo, itakuwa nilifikiri tu kwamba nilikuwa karibu na mtu aliyepigwa risasi ya mpira mguuni na mwingine aliyetupwa kwenye gari dogo la wazi lililokuwa kwenye mwendo
@usiful_me: then, i must have imagined being close by guy being shot in leg by rubber bullet & another thrown off moving pick-up

the paranoid style in american politics na richard hoftasadter , niliposoma jina la kitabu nilifikiri kuwa mambo yaliyoandikwa yamelenga hasa wasomaji wa marekani, nakumbuka kuwa ilinichukua muda kidogo, nilisita kidogo, na ndipo nikauliza bei gani?
the paranoid style in american politics by richard hoftasadter , when reading the title i first thought that the issue s discussed in the book will be mainly addressed to the american reader , i remember taht i took a moment , hesitated for a while , and then asked how much ?

kuanzia sekunde za mwanzo za pambano la kwanza kabisa la kombe la mabara ambalo nililiangalia mwaka huu, new zealand dhidi ya hispania, nilifikiri, “ni kelele gani ile?” na haraka nikaichuja.
from the very first seconds of the very first confederations cup match that i watched this year, new zealand v spain, i thought, "what is that interesting sound?" and then promptly filtered it out.