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Remember, you can ask/answer questions, and generally discuss (or point out any spelling mistakes, ukupha kuhle kulokwamukela) in the Community Questions tab here:
If you would like to read our Ndebele phrasebook, with many useful everyday phrases, it is available on the Amazon website, look for "Northern Ndebele Phrasebook".
Also, if you would like to do some formal lessons, we are excited to now have about 30 beginner lessons to get you started formally in your Ndebele learning:
Kulungile, for those in the community who are keen to learn some of those little but useful connecting words in Ndebele khathesi, here you go:
Sahle kahle, bakithi.
kuhle - good/ well
kodwa - but
ngoba - because
njenga - like
kuphela - only (as in, "just this alone")
futhi - again
nxa - when, as in "when I was young".
njani? - how?
ngaphi? - where?
-ni? - what?
ngubani? - who? (such as okabani? - whose?)
nini? - when?
njalo - also/ and
ngakho - therefore
kakhulu - very much (as in "thank you very much")
masinyane - soon
kancinyane - a little bit
njengoba - since
lanxa - although
kumbe - or
khathesi - now
kubi - badly/ poorly
-vele - always
-hlana - quite pretty (from -hle, pretty)