Hivyo unamaanisha kuwa wameishi pamoja kwa nusu mwaka?
thus|you mean||lived together|||half|
Do you mean they have lived together for half a year?
Basi wao ni wapenzi.
So|||lovers
They must be boyfriend and girlfriend.
Sijui, Ndugu yako aliacha lini kukuandikia?
|||left||writing to you
I have no idea, When did your brother stop writing to you?
Ni wiki chache tu tangu alipoacha kuniandikia.
||few||since|he stopped|
It has only been a few weeks since he stopped writing.
Unaona?
Do you see
You see?
Huyu msichana sio sababu yeye aliacha kukuandikia barua pepe.
this|||||she stopped|||
It is not because of this girl that he stopped writing emails to you.
Hiyo ni kweli nadhani.
|||I think
That is true, I guess.
Aliniandikia mara kwa mara hadi wiki chache zilizopita.
wrote to me||||until|||a few weeks
He wrote to me regularly until a few weeks ago.
Kwa nini aliacha basi?
|||bus
So why did he stop then?
Hebu tujaribu kuchunguza kilichotokea.
let's|let's try|to investigate|what happened
Well let's try to figure out what happened.
Alikutumia barua pepe kwa mara ngapi?
Used you|||||how many
How often did he email you?
Hilo ni ngumu kusema.
that|||
That is hard to say.
Aliandika mara nyingi sana.
wrote|||
He wrote quite often.
Je, Wewe ulijibu kila wakati?
||you answered||
Did you always answer him?
Wakati wote nilijaribu kumjibu kwa haraka iwezekanavyo.
|all|I tried|to answer him||as quickly as possible|as possible
I have always tried to answer him as soon as possible.
Lakini ni mara ngapi hukumjibu?
||||didn't answer
But how many times did you not answer him?
Ilitegemea na kiasi cha kazi niliyokuwa nayo.
It depended||amount|of|workload|I had|that I had
It depended on how much work I had to do.
Uliandika kwa barua pepe kila wakati?
you wrote||letter|email||
You always wrote by email?
Ndio, tuliendelea kuwasiliana kwa barua pepe.
Yes|we continued|communicate|||
Yes we kept in touch by email.
Sikuhitaji kujua ambapo aliishi.
I didn't need||where|he lived
I did not need to know where he lived.
Ulipokea barua pepe ngapi kutoka kwake kila mwezi?
You received||||from|||
How many emails did you get from him every month?
Nilipata barua nyingi kila mwezi.
I received||||
I got lots of email every month.
Nilifurahi kila wakati nilipata barua pepe zake.
I was always excited to get his emails.
Mbona hukujaribu kumtembelea mbeleni?
why not|you didn't try|visit|in the future
Why did you not try to visit him before?
Nilikuwa na shughuli.
I was||activity
I was busy.
Na zaidi ya hayo, nilidhani bado alikuwa shuleni.
|||that|I thought|still||
Besides, I thought he was still away at school.
