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Help and emergencies in Kinyarwanda

The words you hope to never need. Play the ten Kinyarwanda words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

A group of colobus monkeys in Nyungwe Forest, Rwanda
Help and emergencies
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
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All 10 Kinyarwanda phrases in this lesson

Mutabare!moo-tah-BAH-reh
Help!

Police 112, ambulance 912.

Hamagara mugangahah-mah-GAH-rah moo-GAHN-gah
Call a doctor
Polisipoh-LEE-see
Police
Farumasifah-roo-MAH-see
Pharmacy
Ibitaroee-bee-TAH-roh
Hospital
Nayobyenah-YOH-byeh
I'm lost

Literally "I have strayed".

Ndumva ntameze nezan-DOOM-vah n-tah-MEH-zeh NEH-zah
I don't feel well

Literally "I feel I am not well".

ByibweBYEE-bweh
It was stolen
Ni ibintu byihutirwanee ee-BEEN-too byee-hoo-TEER-wah
It's an emergency
Ndeka!n-DEH-kah
Leave me alone

Literally "leave me!".

Where Kinyarwanda is spoken