✅ BASICS
- 👍 Yes: Yah (yah)
- 👎 No: No lah (noh lah)
- 🙏 Please: Please lah (pleez lah)
- 😊 Thank you: Thank you (teng kyu)
- 🤗 You’re welcome: No problem lah (noh PROB-lem lah)
- 😬 Sorry / Excuse me: Sorry lah / ‘Scuse me (SOR-ree lah / skyoos mee)
👋 GREETINGS
- 👋 Hello: Hello! / Eh! (heh-loh / eh!)
- 👋 Bye: Bye bye! (bai bai)
- 🌞 Good morning: Morning lah (MOR-ning lah)
- 🌙 Good night: Night night (nite nite)
❓ QUESTIONS
- ❓ What is it?: What is this ah? (wot is dis ah?)
- 👤 Who?: Who dat? (hoo dat?)
- 🕒 When?: When ah? (wen ah?)
- 📍 Where?: Where got? / Where ah? (wair got? / wair ah?)
- 🛠️ How?: How to? (how too?)
- 🤔 Why?: Why like that? (why like dat?)
- 🤷 I don’t know: Dunno leh (doo-no leh)
- 😕 I don’t understand: I blur lah (eye blur lah)
- 🔁 Again: One more time lah (wun moh taim lah)
- 🙋♂️ Can I…?: Can or not? (kan or not?)
🍎 WHAT?
- 🌟 Good: Shiok! (shyok!)
- 👎 Bad: No good (noh good)
- 😋 Yummy: Sedap! / Shiok! (seh-dahp / shyok!)
- 🤢 Yucky: Aiyo, cannot lah! (ai-yoh, keh-not lah!)
- 🧸 I like it: I like lah (eye like lah)
- 💔 I don’t like it: I don’t like lor (eye don’t like lor)
- 💧 Water: Water (wah-ter)
- 🍝 Food: Makan (mah-kahn)
- 👉 This: This one (dis wuhn)
- 👉 That: That one (dat wuhn)
🧍♂️ WHO?
- 🧒 My name is: My name is… (mai naym is…)
- 🗣️ What’s your name?: Your name what ah? (yor naym wot ah?)
- 🙋 I am: I am… (eye am…)
- 👉 You are: You are… (yoo ah…)
😀 FEELINGS
- 😃 I’m happy: I very happy (eye veh-ree happy)
- 😢 I’m sad: I very sad lah (eye veh-ree sad lah)
- 😴 I’m tired: I tired liao (eye tie-yert lee-ow)
- 😡 I’m mad: Wah, I angry sia! (wah eye ang-gree siah)
- 🤕 I’m hurt: Pain lah (pain lah)
- 🫤 I don’t feel good: I not feeling well (eye not feel-ing well)
- 🥰 I love you: I love you lah (eye love you lah)
- 🍽️ I’m hungry: I hungry lah (eye hung-gree lah)
- 🥤 I’m thirsty: I thirsty leh (eye thirs-tee leh)
- 😕 I’m confused: I blur blur sia (eye blur blur siah)
⏰ WHEN?
- 📅 Today: Today (toh-DAY)
- 📆 Tomorrow: Tomorrow (toh-MOH-roh)
- 🕰️ Yesterday: Yesterday (YES-ter-day)
- 🌅 Morning: Morning (MOR-ning)
- 🌌 Night: Night (nite)
- ⏳ Now: Now lah (now lah)
- 🔜 Later: Later can? (lay-ter ken?)
📍 WHERE?
- 🔜 Right: Right side (rite side)
- 🔙 Left: Left side (left side)
- ⬆️ Straight: Go straight (go strayt)
- ⬅️ Front: In front (in frunt)
- ➡️ Behind: At the back (at the bek)
- ⬆️ Top / above: On top lah (on top lah)
- ⬇️ Bottom / below: Bottom there (bot-tum der)
- 🏠 Inside: Inside there lah (in-side der lah)
- 🌳 Outside: Outside there (out-side der)
🔢 HOW MUCH?
- 💵 How much?: How much ah? (how much ah?)
- 😮 Too much: Wah, so ex! (wah soh ex!)
- 👌 A little: Just a bit lah (jus a bit lah)
- 1️⃣ One: One (wun)
- 2️⃣ Two: Two (too)
- 3️⃣ Three: Three (tree)
- 4️⃣ Four: Four (for)
- 5️⃣ Five: Five (faiv)
- 6️⃣ Six: Six (siks)
- 7️⃣ Seven: Seven (seh-ven)
- 8️⃣ Eight: Eight (ait)
- 9️⃣ Nine: Nine (nine)
- 🔟 Ten: Ten (ten)
- 💯 One hundred: One hundred (wun hun-drid)
🧠 WHY?
- 🤔 Because: Because lah (bih-kawz lah)
- 🧩 So…: So lor (soh lor)
- 👀 If…: If like that… (if like dat…)
- 🆚 But: But hor… (but hor…)
- 🔄 Or: Or not? (or not?)
- ➕ And: And also (and also)
💬 ACTIONS
- 🤲 I need: I need lah (eye need lah)
- 🙋♀️ I want: I want lah (eye want lah)
- 🙌 I give: I give you (eye give yoo)
- 🤝 I help: I help lah (eye help lah)
- 🙋 I ask: I ask you ah? (eye ask yoo ah?)
- 🗣️ I say: I say already (eye say al-ray-dee)
- 👂 I listen: I listen liao (eye lis-sen lee-ow)
- 👀 I see: I see already (eye see al-ray-dee)
- 🦶 I go: I go first (eye go ferst)
- 🍽️ I eat: I makan (eye mah-kahn)
- 🥤 I drink: I drink lah (eye drink lah)
- 🛌 I sleep: I sleep now lah (eye sleep now lah)
🔊 IMPORTANT WORDS
- 🆘 Help!: Help me lah! (help mee lah!)
- 🔇 Quiet!: Quiet can? (kwai-yet ken?)
- 🛑 Stop!: Eh, stop it lah! (eh, stop eet lah!)
- 👀 Look!: Look there! (look der!)
- 🥱 Calm down: Chill lah! (cheel lah!)
- 👏 Come here: Come here leh (kum here leh)
- ⏳ Wait: Wait lah (wait lah)
- 🌟 Good job!: Good one sia! (gud one siah!)
- 🤝 Let’s go!: Let’s go lah! (lets go lah!)