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Lesson 10 of 10
Help and emergencies in Hausa
The words you hope to never need. Play the ten Hausa words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Hausa phrases in this lesson
- Taimako!tai-MAH-koh
- Help!
- Kira likitaKEE-rah lee-KEE-tah
- Call a doctor
- 'Yan sandayan SAN-dah
- Police
- KemisKEH-mis
- Pharmacy
- Asibitiah-see-BEE-tee
- Hospital
- Na ɓatanah bah-TAH
- I'm lost
- Ba na jin daɗibah nah jeen dah-DEE
- I don't feel well
- An sace shian SAH-cheh shee
- It was stolen
- Gaggawa cegag-GAH-wah cheh
- It's an emergency
- Ka bar nikah BAR nee
- Leave me alone
Nigeria's emergency number is 112.
Literally "children of the stick".
From the English chemist, the everyday word for a pharmacy.
From the English hospital.
Literally "I got lost".
Literally "I don't feel sweetness".
Literally "it was stolen".
Literally "it is urgent".
To a man. To a woman: "ki bar ni".