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It is important, in reading the examples in the text, to remember that the final vowel of a word is always assimilated by the initial vowel of the following word, which is then pronounced long.
Thus: agula ebintu ebirungi (he buys nice things) must be read:
agulebintw’ebirungi. ♫

Similarly: ndabye omuti omuwanvu (I have seen a tall tree) must be read:
ndaby’omuty’omuwanvu. ♫

This assimilation is recognised in the Standard Orthography only in the case of particles like ne, nga, ka, etc., and the genitive particle. Thus:
azze n’ebintu by’omwami ♫ (he has come with the master's things).