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First 100 words Flashcards

1
Q

What are you doing?

A

Wenzani

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2
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Is is a Pleasure

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Wamkelekile

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3
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Sin or express pity

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Isono. Isono nga loyo gogo(we must feel pity for that granny)

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4
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Only have eyes for me

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Bheka(look) mina(me) ngedwa(I’m alone)

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5
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I only have eyes for you

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Ngibheka wena wedwa

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6
Q

Eat

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Dlisa

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7
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You speak out of your ass

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Ukuphapha

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8
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You phapha

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Uyaphapha

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9
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People who phapha all the time

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Omas’phapheni

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10
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The devil

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Usathane

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11
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Cartoons

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Amapopeye

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12
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Time for playing the fool is over

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Isikhathi (time) samapopeye(for Popeye) siphelile(is over)

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13
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To Be patient or to put up with nonesense

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Ukubekezela

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14
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What will people say

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Abantu bazothini

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15
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To comfort

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Ukududuza

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16
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Just because or definitely

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Nje

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17
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Why are you asking me for my passbook and special permit(someone asking you lots of questions)

A

Yini(why) ungibuza(ask)
ipasi
Nes’pesheli(special passbook)

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18
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You’ve got to be shitting me

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Aninyi

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19
Q

Retirement

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Um’hlala Phansi

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20
Q

Sit

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Hlala

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21
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Down

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Phansi

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22
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Tie up bind or arrest

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Bopha

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23
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I want to bind you up

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Ngifuna ukukubopha

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24
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Flat butt

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Isishwapha

25
Q

Go buy

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Hamba uyothenga

26
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Molding, shaping, creating

27
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Criminal activity

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Ubugebengu

28
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Mix up, cross paths, intersect or lose your mind

29
Q

You’re crazy

30
Q

They’re crazy

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Baphambene

31
Q

All of them are crazy

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Bonke baphambene

32
Q

Yes, I am working hard

A

Yebo, ngisebenza kakhulu

33
Q

Are you studying?

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Uyafunda? Reply :yebo, ngifunda isizulu

34
Q

I am still well VS I am very well.

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Ngisaphila VS ngiphila kahle

35
Q

May I come in?

A

Ngingangena(-nga means may)

36
Q

Change from I am working to I am not working

A

Ngiyasebenza to angiyasebenzi

37
Q

We don’t work

A

A-si-sebenz-i

38
Q

Don’t you want to drink with today

A

Awufuni ukuphuza Nami namhlanje

39
Q

Come

40
Q

Instruct someone not to worry

A

Musa uku-khathazeka! Or mus’uku-khathazeka!

41
Q

Instruct more than one person not to worry

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Musa-ni uku-khathazeka or musan’ukukhathazeka

42
Q

More polite way of saying you should not worry

A

U-nga-khathazek-i

43
Q

How, who, when, where, what

A

Kanjani, - bani-(ungubani), nini(uhamba nini), kuphi(uvela kuphi), - ni-(u-thi-ni means you say what?)

44
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Only interrogative to begin a sentence

A

Yini(why) ufunda isizulu

45
Q

Spider

A

Isicabucabu

46
Q

Man

47
Q

A man that is a spider

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Indoda (a man) eyisicabucabu(that is a spider)

48
Q

A spider of a man

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Isicabucabu (a spider) sendoda(of a man)

49
Q

Irritate

50
Q

You irritate me

A

Ucasula mina

51
Q

Chime in

52
Q

Why are you chiming in

A

Ufakazani, wena?

53
Q

A witness

54
Q

A male person

55
Q

Snitch

56
Q

To be disappointed

57
Q

To create, to cause or to be old

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Dala (Mdala means he is old, Umdali means someone who creates such as God)

58
Q

I am missing you

A

Ngiyaku khumbula

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