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Somebody please explain "Ninataka changu". Asante

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It means "I want mine". But looking at the context, it seems like the "mine" refers to samaki (fish), so I would have expected wangu. Cases are a weakness of mine; maybe changu is a general/sloppy way of saying "mine".

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Leo, thanks, that's pretty much what I thought. But it doesn't seem to follow the line of the conversation, so I was unsure.

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