ndipo

How to say it

Meaning

it is then, or there, that, an emphatic particle marking the exact time or place something happens.

Good to know

(emph.) It is there/then (that.), aliufunga mlango - akaenda zake. He first locked the door and then he went his way. ndiposa con/. dial, therefore, consequently

Examples

• Aliufunga mlango, ndipo akaenda zake.He locked the door, and it was then that he went his way.
• Je, ndipo mlipokutana kwa mara ya kwanza?Is that where you first met?
• Hakuwa hapo ndipo tatizo lilipoanzia.It was not there that the problem began.