✅ BASICS
- 👍 Yes: Wi (wee)
- 👎 No: Non (nohn)
- 🙏 Please: Silvouplé (seel-voo-play)
- 😊 Thank you: Mersi (mehr-see)
- 🤗 You’re welcome: Pa problem (pah proh-blem)
- 😬 Sorry / Excuse me: Desolé (day-soh-lay)
👋 GREETINGS
- 👋 Hello: Bonzur (bon-ZOOR)
- 👋 Bye: By by (by by)
- 🌞 Good morning: Bonanza (boh-nan-zah)
- 🌙 Good night: Bon swar (bon swahr)
❓ QUESTIONS
- ❓ What is it?: Ki sa? (kee sah?)
- 👤 Who?: Ki? (kee?)
- 🕒 When?: Kan? (kahn?)
- 📍 Where?: Kot? (koht?)
- 🛠️ How?: Kouma? (koo-mah?)
- 🤔 Why?: Kifer? (kee-fehr?)
- 🤷 I don’t know: Mo pa kone (moh pah koh-nay)
- 😕 I don’t understand: Mo pa konpran (moh pah kon-pran)
- 🔁 Again: Ankored (ahn-koh-rehd)
- 🙋♂️ Can I…?: Mo kapav…? (moh kah-pahv…?)
🍎 WHAT?
- 🌟 Good: Bon (bohn)
- 👎 Bad: Mal (mahl)
- 😋 Yummy: Délikie (day-lee-kee-ay)
- 🤢 Yucky: Degoute (day-goo-tay)
- 🧸 I like it: Mo kontan sa (moh kon-tahn sah)
- 💔 I don’t like it: Mo pa kontan sa (moh pah kon-tahn sah)
- 💧 Water: Dilo (dee-loh)
- 🍝 Food: Manze (mahn-zay)
- 👉 This: Sa (sah)
- 👉 That: Sa laba (sah lah-bah)
🧍♂️ WHO?
- 🧒 My name is: Mo apel… (moh ah-pel…)
- 🗣️ What’s your name?: Ki to apel? (kee toh ah-pel?)
- 🙋 I am: Mo … (moh …)
- 👉 You are: To … (toh …)
😀 FEELINGS
- 😃 I’m happy: Mo kontan (moh kon-tahn)
- 😢 I’m sad: Mo tris (moh trees)
- 😴 I’m tired: Mo bizin repoze (moh bee-zin reh-poh-zay)
- 😡 I’m mad: Mo fâ (moh fah)
- 🤕 I’m hurt: Mo blese (moh bleh-zay)
- 🫤 I don’t feel good: Mo pa bien (moh pah byen)
- 🥰 I love you: Mo kontan twa (moh kon-tahn twah)
- 🍽️ I’m hungry: Mo fam (moh fahm)
- 🥤 I’m thirsty: Mo swaf (moh swahf)
⏰ WHEN?
- 📅 Today: Zordi (zor-dee)
- 📆 Tomorrow: Dimane (dee-mah-nay)
- 🕰️ Yesterday: Er (ehr)
- 🌅 Morning: Maten (mah-ten)
- 🌌 Night: Sware (swahr)
- ⏳ Now: Ere (ehr)
- 🔜 Later: Plitar (plee-tar)
📍 WHERE?
- 🔜 Right: Droite (drwatt)
- 🔙 Left: Goche (gosh)
- ⬆️ Straight: Dirize (dee-ree-zay)
- ⬅️ Front: Devant (duh-vahnt)
- ➡️ Behind: Derrier (deh-ree-eh)
- ⬆️ Top / above: Dessus (deh-ssu)
- ⬇️ Bottom / below: Dessou (deh-soo)
- 🏠 Inside: Dedan (duh-dahn)
- 🌳 Outside: Deor (duh-or)
- 🚪 In: Dedan (same as inside)
- 🏃♀️ Out: Dera (deh-rah)
🔢 HOW MUCH?
- 💵 How much?: Kosta kouma? (koh-stah koo-mah?)
- 😮 Too much: Trop! (troh!)
- 👌 A little: Un ti de (uhn tee day)
- 1️⃣ One: Enn (ehn)
- 2️⃣ Two: Dé (day)
- 3️⃣ Three: Trwa (trwah)
- 4️⃣ Four: Kat (kaht)
- 5️⃣ Five: Sink (sink)
- 6️⃣ Six: Sis (sees)
- 7️⃣ Seven: Set (set)
- 8️⃣ Eight: Wit (weet)
- 9️⃣ Nine: Nef (nef)
- 🔟 Ten: Dis (dees)
- 💯 One hundred: San (sahn)
🧠 WHY?
- 🤔 Because: Parski (par-skee)
- 🧩 So…: Alor… (ah-lor…)
- 👀 If…: Si… (see…)
- 🆚 But: Mé… (meh…)
- 🔄 Or: O… (oh…)
- ➕ And: E (eh)
💬 ACTIONS
- 🤲 I need: Mo bizin (moh bee-zin)
- 🙋♀️ I want: Mo envi (moh ahn-vee)
- 🙌 I give: Mo donn (moh dohn)
- 🤝 I help: Mo ed (moh ed)
- 🙋 I ask: Mo demann (moh duh-mahn)
- 🗣️ I say: Mo dir (moh deer)
- 👂 I listen: Mo tous (moh toos)
- 👀 I see: Mo gete (moh geh-tay)
- 🦶 I go: Mo al (moh al)
- 🍽️ I eat: Mo manze (moh mahn-zay)
- 🥤 I drink: Mo bwar (moh bwar)
- 🛌 I sleep: Mo dormi (moh dor-mee)
🔊 IMPORTANT WORDS
- 🆘 Help!: Ed mwa! (ed mwah!)
- 🔇 Quiet!: Ti vey (tee vay)
- 🛑 Stop!: Arête! (ah-reht!)
- 👀 Look!: Gade! (gah-day!)
- 🥱 Calm down: Rilaks (ree-lahks)
- 👏 Come here: Vini la! (vee-nee lah!)
- ⏳ Wait: Attan (ah-tahn)
- 🌟 Good job!: Bien fé! (byen fay!)
- 🤝 Let’s go!: Anou (ah-noo!)