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The first 10 words – Lingala Language

Just as with the verbs, knowing a few of the more commonly used words can get you a long way when you start speaking Lingala. Initial conversations often seem to revolve around work, family, what you’ve done, are doing or are going to do, or what you want. Accordingly, this list looks at some of those areas and introduces a few key words. So the 10 words you’ll want to know from the beginning are:

mwasi – (MWAH-see) – wife/woman

mobali – (moh-BAL-ee) – husband/man

ndeko – (n-DEK-oh) – brother/sister

ndako – (n-DAK-oh) – house

mosala – (moh-SAH-lah) – work

mbuma – (m-BOO-mah) – fruit

ndunda – (n-DOON-dah) – vegetables

mayi – (MY-ee) – water

malamu – (mah-LAH-moo) – good

mabe – (MAH-beh) – bad

After mastering this lesson, these related pages might interest you: Present Tense, Verb to be, Regular Verbs & The First 10 Verbs.

Source

https://lobalingala.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/23042014-loba-lingala.pdf

Other Lessons

• Negation
• The Future Tense To Be
• Gender
• Verb to be
• Using infinitive verb forms
• Conjugation To Have
• Create your first simple sentences in the affirmative
• Personal pronouns
• Adjectives
• Irregular verbs – kokende – to go
• Plurals
• Prepositions
• The First 10 Verbs
• Nouns