← Pashto lessons
🇦🇫
Lesson 8 of 10

Getting around in Pashto

Left, right, the station, one ticket, where is the toilet. Play the ten Pashto words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

Children with bicycles in Bamyan, Afghanistan
Getting around
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Sgt. Ken Scar (U.S. Armed Forces), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Pashto phrases in this lesson

تشناب چیرته دی؟tash-NAAB CHER-ta day
Where is the toilet?
... ته څنګه ورشم؟ta TSƏN-ga war-SHƏM
How do I get to...?
کیڼ لور تهkiŋ lor ta
To the left

Literally "toward the left side".

ښي لور تهkhee lor ta
To the right
سیدهSEE-da
Straight ahead

Literally "straight". Often paired with hand gesture pointing forward.

دلتهDƏL-ta
Here
ریل سټیشنreel STE-shən
Train station

Pakistan has a large railway; Afghanistan has almost none.

بسbas
Bus
هوايي ډګرha-waa-YEE DƏ-gər
Airport

Literally "air field".

یو ټکټ، مهربانيyoo TI-kət, meh-ra-BA-ni
One ticket, please

Where Pashto is spoken

Next lesson: Time and days →