instruction:
In this task, you are given a sentence or phrase in Xhosa. You must translate it to English in a way that is equivalent in terms of meaning and grammatically correct.
question:
Isibane sibonakala kancinci kunexesha lasebusuku okanye xa kumnyama phakathi kune zidanyazisi.
answer:
The light is visible less than the period of darkness between the flashes.


question:
Isizathu esiqheleke kakhulu sokukrozuka kwapanel okonye ukutshabalala kuphele kweseyile engunxantathu ``sisisenyelo seglasi enenttabathi ethatha iyure ukuhla'' engadumanga. Ngesivunduvundu sequbuliso esivele phambili, iseyile engunxanlathu iyazisenga amaxesha athile ukujikeleze i forestry ngehlebe apha yakhe ufuvumalo olubini, elunye phezu kwelinyi.
answer:
The commonest cause of a torn panel or even the total loss of the spinnaker is the infamous “hourglass wrap." With a sudden gust from ahead, the spinnaker wraps itself several times around the forestay in such a way that it forms two big bulges, one above the other.


question:
Kulo nyaka umnye nje iMekyuri, isithandathu solohlobo ithoba lesitili isakhelo, iayini egqume inqanawa ethile epheleka iinqanawa zorhwebo ezikwididi lekhomasi zandululwa.
answer:

In the same year as the Mercury, six of a class of nine steel-framed, iron-plated corvettes of the Comus class, were launched.