ambamo

How to say it

Meaning

Links a place or container to what happens inside it, like English in which or where; it is the relative for the inside place ending mu.

Good to know

Amba with mo, the inside place ending. Sister forms: ambapo (at which, where) and ambako (to which, where, less definite). It usually follows a place word: chumba ambamo tulilala, the room in which we slept.

Examples

• Hiki ndicho chumba ambamo tulilala jana.This is the room in which we slept yesterday.
• Alinionyesha sanduku ambamo aliweka barua zake.She showed me the box in which she kept her letters.
• Kanisa ambamo walifunga ndoa ni la zamani sana.The church in which they got married is very old.