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Lesson 10 of 10
Help and emergencies in Navajo
The words you hope to never need. Play the ten Navajo 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 Navajo phrases in this lesson
- Shíká anilyeedá!SHIH-kah ah-nil-YEH-dah
- Help!
- Azee'ííł'íníah-ZEH-eelth-ih-nih
- Call a doctor
- Siláosih-LOW
- Police
- Azee' bá hooghanah-ZEH bah HOH-gahn
- Pharmacy
- Azee'ál'į́ah-ZEH-ahl-in
- Hospital
- Yóó' íiyáYOH ee-YAH
- I'm lost
- Doo yá'ánísht'ééh dadoh yah-AH-nish-teh dah
- I don't feel well
- It was stolenit wuz STOH-len
- It was stolen
- It's an emergencyits an e-MUR-jen-see
- It's an emergency
- Leave me aloneleev mee a-LOHN
- Leave me alone
The emergency number is 911.
Literally "the one who makes medicine". Call 911 for an ambulance.
From Spanish soldado. The Navajo Nation has its own police force.
Literally "house for medicine".
Literally "where medicine is made".
Literally "I wandered off".
Literally "I am not well".
Said in English, to the Navajo Nation police.
Said in English, to 911.
Said in English.