data

How to say it

Meaning

Facts and figures collected to be studied or used, and in everyday speech the mobile internet bundle on a phone.

Good to know

N class noun from English, the same in plural: data hizi, data nyingi. Kununua data means to buy mobile data; takwimu is the older word for statistics.

Examples

• Watafiti walikusanya data kutoka shule mia moja.The researchers collected data from one hundred schools.
• Data zangu zimeisha, siwezi kutuma picha.My data has run out, I cannot send photos.
• Serikali inatumia data hizi kupanga bajeti.The government uses this data to plan the budget.