Kala phrases

Greetings & Farewells

• Welcome - ahala

• Hello / Hi! - ya'ate (formal) / hala (informal)

• Good morning - supu tama

• Good day - yoma tama

• Good evening / Good night - yohua tama

• How are you? - to tayo ka (lit: Your way?)

to sana tayo ka (lit: How your health?)

ta tama ka (lit: You good?)

• Good bye - kyoha

• See you soon - amahi nanku anyatli (lit: small time we will see each other)

• What's your name? - ke ata tayo ka

• Where are you from? - te mo ta (a) ka

• Pleased to meet you - ke tlaki te ta tama

• Cheers/Good health - kampa

Etiquette

• Please - tsepa

• Thank you (very much) - nyasa(mha)

• Excuse me - tliha

• I'm sorry, but... - na tliha ehe...

• That's a shame - uatla malaha

• May I... ? - na ke ... myonta ka

Language difficulties

• I (don't) understand / I (don't) know - na unya(k)

• Please say that again / repeat that - tsepa ta'etla kalamye

• Please speak more slowly - tsepa ma tlena kala

• Please write it down - tsepa ta'etla moya

• How do you say ...? - to ... etla kala ka

• Do you speak ...? - ta ke ... kala ka

• Do you understand? - ta unya ka

Times & Dates

• What time is it? - ama ka (lit: time INT) / tsima ka (lit: hour INT)

• It's one o'clock. - ke tsima na'o a

• It's a quarter past two. - ke tsima ima'o te ta'o a

• It's eight pm. - ke tsima taue'o a

• It's half-past 5. - ke tsima ita'o te ya'o a

• What day is it? - iyoma a ka

• nayoma - Thursday
• tayoma - Friday
• hayoma - Saturday
• mayoma - Sunday
• yomaya - Monday
• tsayoma - Tuesday
• kayoma - Wednesday

• yesterday - yomaye
• today - iyoma
• tomorrow - yomatli
• last - -ye / next - -tli
• night - yohua
• week - sema
• month - sayo
• year - anyo
• morning - supu
• afternoon - pyeua
• evening - suaye

• What date is it today? - ke sayoma ka / itla sayoma ka
• It's October 18^th. - yoma ha'o te sayo ueta'o a

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