✅ BASICS
- 👍 Yes: Yes (yes)
- 👎 No: No (no)
- 🙏 Please: Plis (plees)
- 😊 Thank you: Tank yu (tangk yoo)
- 🤗 You’re welcome: I no problem (ee noh proh-blem)
- 😬 Sorry / Excuse me: Sorri (sor-ree)
👋 GREETINGS
- 👋 Hello: Halo (hah-loh)
- 👋 Bye: Baebai (bye-bye)
- 🌞 Good morning: Gud moning (good mo-ning)
- 🌙 Good night: Gud naet (good nyt)
❓ QUESTIONS
- ❓ What is it?: Wanem hem? (wah-nem hem?)
- 👤 Who?: Hu? (hoo?)
- 🕒 When?: Wanem taem? (wah-nem tay-em?)
- 📍 Where?: Wea? (weh-ah?)
- 🛠️ How?: Hao? (how?)
- 🤔 Why?: From samting? (from sam-ting?)
- 🤷 I don’t know: Mi no save (mee noh sayv)
- 😕 I don’t understand: Mi no kasem (mee noh ka-sem)
- 🔁 Again: Mo moa (mo mo-ah)
- 🙋♂️ Can I…?: Mi save…? (mee sayv…?)
🍎 WHAT?
- 🌟 Good: Gud (good)
- 👎 Bad: Nogud (no-good)
- 😋 Yummy: Nambawan (nam-ba-wan!)
- 🤢 Yucky: Nogud smel (no-good smel)
- 🧸 I like it: Mi laekim (mee lay-kim)
- 💔 I don’t like it: Mi no laekim (mee noh lay-kim)
- 💧 Water: Wota (wo-tah)
- 🍝 Food: Kaen (kah-en)
- 👉 This: Hem (hem)
- 👉 That: Hemi / Hem nao (hem-ee / hem now)
🧍♂️ WHO?
- 🧒 My name is: Nem blo mi hem… (nem blo mee hem…)
- 🗣️ What’s your name?: Nem blong yu? (nem blong yoo?)
- 🙋 I am: Mi (mee…)
- 👉 You are: Yu (yoo…)
😀 FEELINGS
- 😃 I’m happy: Mi hamas (mee ha-mas)
- 😢 I’m sad: Mi saed (mee sad)
- 😴 I’m tired: Mi tiare (mee tee-ah-ray)
- 😡 I’m mad: Mi krae (mee kry)
- 🤕 I’m hurt: Mi katemaot (mee ka-teh-maw-ut)
- 🫤 I don’t feel good: Mi nogud (mee noh-good)
- 🥰 I love you: Mi lavem yu (mee lah-vem yoo)
- 🍽️ I’m hungry: Mi hangre (mee hang-ray)
- 🥤 I’m thirsty: Mi taske smol (mee tas-key smol)
⏰ WHEN?
- 📅 Today: Tedei (teh-day)
- 📆 Tomorrow: Tumora (too-mo-rah)
- 🕰️ Yesterday: Yestaedei (yes-tah-day)
- 🌅 Morning: Moning (mo-ning)
- 🌌 Night: Naet (nyt)
- ⏳ Now: Nau (now)
- 🔜 Later: Leta (lay-tah)
📍 WHERE?
- 🔜 Right: Raet saed (rite-sayd)
- 🔙 Left: Lefsaed (left-sayd)
- ⬆️ Straight: Stretem (stre-tehm)
- ⬅️ Front: Bifor (bee-for)
- ➡️ Behind: Beksaed (beck-sayd)
- ⬆️ Top / above: Antap (ahn-tahp)
- ⬇️ Bottom / below: Anbelo (ahn-beh-lo)
- 🏠 Inside: Insait (in-site)
- 🌳 Outside: Aotsaed (owtsayd)
- 🚪 In: Insait (same as inside)
- 🏃♀️ Out: Aotsaed (same as outside)
🔢 HOW MUCH?
- 💵 How much?: Hao plante? (how plan-teh?)
- 😮 Too much: Tumas (too-mas)
- 👌 A little: Smol (smol)
- 1️⃣ One: Wan (wan)
- 2️⃣ Two: Tu (too)
- 3️⃣ Three: Tri (tree)
- 4️⃣ Four: Fo (foh)
- 5️⃣ Five: Faef (fayf)
- 6️⃣ Six: Siks (siks)
- 7️⃣ Seven: Sevan (seh-van)
- 8️⃣ Eight: Et (et)
- 9️⃣ Nine: Nain (nayn)
- 🔟 Ten: Ten (ten)
- 💯 One hundred: Hanredir (han-dreh-deer)
🧠 WHY?
- 🤔 Because: From (from)
- 🧩 So…: So (soh)
- 👀 If…: If (if)
- 🆚 But: Bat (bat)
- 🔄 Or: O (oh)
- ➕ And: Mo (moh)
💬 ACTIONS
- 🤲 I need: Mi nidim (mee nee-dim)
- 🙋♀️ I want: Mi wantem (mee wan-tem)
- 🙌 I give: Mi givim (mee giv-im)
- 🤝 I help: Mi hep (mee hep)
- 🙋 I ask: Mi question (mee kwes-chun)
- 🗣️ I say: Mi talem (mee tah-lem)
- 👂 I listen: Mi lisen (mee lee-sen)
- 👀 I see: Mi lukim (mee loo-kim)
- 🦶 I go: Mi go (mee goh)
- 🍽️ I eat: Mi et (mee et)
- 🥤 I drink: Mi dring (mee dring)
- 🛌 I sleep: Mi slip (mee slip)
🔊 IMPORTANT WORDS
- 🆘 Help!: Apem mi! (ah-pem mee!)
- 🔇 Quiet!: Stil plis (steal plees)
- 🛑 Stop!: Stop (stop)
- 👀 Look!: Luk (look)
- 🥱 Calm down: Kooldaon (kohl-down)
- 👏 Come here: Kam ya! (kahm yah!)
- ⏳ Wait: Wetem (we-tem)
- 🌟 Good job!: Gud wok! (good wok!)
- 🤝 Let’s go!: Yumi go! (you-mee go!)