Greetings

2007-03-08T17:28:13Z

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=== Formal Greeting (singular)===
{| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"
| A || Dumela rra || Hello Sir
|-
| B || Dumela mma, o tsogile jang ?|| Hello madam, how are you ? [literally "how did you wake up"]
|-
| A || Ke tsogile sentle, wena o tsogile jang ? || I am fine, how are you ?
|-
| B || Ke tsogile sentle || I am fine
|}
As an alternative to "tsogile" (woke up) in the afternoon "tlhotse" (spent the day), and in the early morning "robetse" (slept) can be used.

=== Less Formal Greeting (singular)===
{| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"
| A || Dumela rra || Hello Sir
|-
| B || Dumela mma, o kae? || Hello madam, how are you ? [literally "where are you"]
|-
| A || Ke teng, wena o kae ? || I am fine, how are you ?
|-
| B || Ke teng || I am fine
|}

=== Less Formal Greeting (plural)===
{| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"
| A || Dumelang, le kae? / lo kae?|| Hello, how are you ? (plural)
|-
| B || Re teng || We are fine
|}

=== Informal Greeting (singular)===
{| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"
| A || Wa reng ?|| What's up ? [literally "what do you say"]
|-
| B || Go sharpu || OK
|}

=== Goodbye===
{| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"
| A || (Go siame rra) sala sentle|| (OK sir) Goodbye [literally "stay well"]
|-
| B || (Go siame mma) tsamaya sentle || (OK madam) Goodbye [literally "leave well"]
|}

=== Informal Goodbye===
{| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"
| A || Boroko mma || Goodnight madam
|-
| B || Robala sentle rra || Sleep well sir
|}

===Vocabulary===
{| style="color:black;background-color:#ffcc99;" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1"
| dumela || dumelang || Hello/Good Morning/Afternoon
|-
| tsoga || tsile || wake/woke up
|-
| tlhola || tlhotse || spend/spent the day
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| robala || robetse || sleep/slept
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| sala || - || stay
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| tsamaya || - || leave/go
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| bonana || - || see each other
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| botoka || - || better
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| go siame || - || its OK/fine
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| sharpu || - || OK (slang)
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| jang ? || - || how
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| kae ? || - || where
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| boroko || - || good night
|-
| koko || - || knock-knock
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| teng || - || there/around/available
|}

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