Useful Phrases
- Hello – Mauri
- Hello – Ko na mauri
- Hello – Kam na mauri
- How are you? – Ko uara?
- How are you? – Kam uara?
- Thank you – Ko rabwa
- Thank you – Kam rabwa
- Goodbye – Ti a boo (we will meet)
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Famous quotes containing the word phrases:
“A man in all the world’s new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
One who the music of his own vain tongue
Doth ravish like enchanting harmony.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The Americans ... have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)