SWAHILI MONTHS

Months
The names of the months in Swahili are in two versions: one is taken directly from English and the other is counting the moons.

Here are the Swahili months of the year:

Kiswahili English Kiswahili
Januari January Mwezi wa kwanza
Februari February Mwezi wa pili
Machi March Mwezi wa tatu
Aprili April Mwezi wa nne
Mei May Mwezi wa tano
Juni June Mwezi wa sita
Julai July Mwezi wa saba
Agosti August Mwezi wa nane
Septemba September Mwezi wa tisa
Oktoba October Mwezi wa Kumi
Novemba November Mwezi wa kumi na moja
Desemba December Mwezi wa kumi na mbili

As with the days of the week, when using months in a sentence the month is placed in the same way as in English, either directly before the subject or at the end of the sentence. So the preceding examples in this section could have been written as:

Niliogelea Aprili. – I went swimming in April.
Niliogelea katika mwezi Aprili. – I went swimming in the month of April.
Niliogelea katika mwezi wa Aprili. – I went swimming in the month of April.
Niliogelea katika mwezi wa nne. – I went swimming in the fourth month. (April)

When naming the months directly, the months are N- class nouns, however if the word mwezi is used before the name of the month then noun class agreement must be with mwezi which is in the M-/MI- noun class.