Phrases
- How are you? - Kumusta ka?
- Good morning - Maayong buntag
- Good afternoon - Maayong hapon
- Good evening - Maayong gabii
- Good bye - Adios (rare), Babay (informal, corruption of "Goodbye")
- Thank you - Salamat
- Where are you from? - Taga asa/diin ka?
- How do you say... in Cebuano? - Unsaun ni pag sulti sa Binisaya?
- How do I get to ...? - Unsaun nako pag-adto sa...?
- Do you understand? - Nakasabot ka?
- How is the weather? - Unsa na ang panahon?
- What is that? - Unsa nâ?/Unsa man nâ?
- What time is it? - Unsa nang orasa?/Unsang orasa na?
- Stop (Imperative) - Hunong sâ.
- Don't - Ayaw
- Yes - Oo
- No - Dili ("no", used for future tense), Wala ("nothing, the absence of", used for past and progressive tenses)
- O.k. - Sige
- Great - Maayo
- Oh! (Interjection) - Sus! (shortened form of Hesus!, roughly equivalent to English interjections "Sheesh", "Christ!", and "Jesus!")
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