Amapendo
Table of Contents
Days of the week.
Numbers (amapendo)
- chimo
- one
- fibili
- two
- fitatu
- three
- fine
- four
- fisano
- five
- mutanda
- six
- chine lubali
- seven
- chine konse konse
- eight
- pabula
- nine
- ikumi
- ten
bigger numbers
- amakumi yabili
- twenty
- amakumi yatatu
- thirty
- amakumi yane
- fourty
- amakumi yisano
- fifty
- amakumi mutanda
- sixty
- amakumi chine lubali
- seventy
- amakumi chine konse konse
- eighty
- amakumi pabula
- ninety
- amakumi yabili na fisano
- twenty five
- amakumi yisano na fisano
- fifty five
- umwanda umo
- one hundred
for children / mwakwata abana banga
(and for cats)
- abana
- children
- umo
- one
- babili
- two
- batatu
- three
- bane
- four
- basano
- five
for dogs
- imbwa
- dog (shi)
- imo
- one
- shibili
- two
- shitatu
- three
- shine
- four
- shisano
- five
for cats
- ba pushi
- cats
- mwakwata ba pushi banga?
- How many cats do you have?
- nakwata pushi umo
- I have one cat.
- nakwata ba pushi babili
- I have two cats.
- batatu
- three
- bane
- four
- basano
- five
Shop scenario
Words & Phrases
- amachungwa
- fruit
- umukate
- bread
- ifyumbu
- sweet potatoes
- amasaka
- sacks
- amasaka ya fyumbu
- ndefwaya ukushita
- I want to buy
- amalasha
- charcoal
- umuchele
- salt
- ituka
- shop
- mwituka
- in the shop
- amatuka
- shops
Conversation
- ndefwaya ukushita amasaka ifyumbu mutanda
- I want to buy six sacks of sweet potatoes
- ninshi mulefwaya ukushita?
- what do ou want to buy?
- tumyafwilisheko?
- Can I help you?
- chapwa?
- is that all?
- emkwayi chapwa
- yes, that is all.
How many do you have?
- Mwakwata amatuka yanga?
- how many shops do you have?
- mwakwata abana banga?
- how many children do you have?
- mwakwata imbwa shinga?
- how many dogs do you have?
- mwakwata ba pushi banga?
- how many cats do you have?