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Lesson 8 of 10

Getting around in Tongan

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

Forested hills and the coast in ʻEua National Park, Tonga
Getting around
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Duncan from Wellington, NZ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Tongan phrases in this lesson

Ko fē e falemālōlō?koh feh eh fa-leh-maa-LOH-loh
Where is the toilet?
Te u ʻalu fēfē ki...?teh oo AH-loo FEH-feh kee
How do I get to...?
Ki hemakee HEH-ma
To the left
Ki mataʻukee ma-TAH-oo
To the right
ʻAlu hangatonuAH-loo ha-nga-TOH-noo
Straight ahead
HeniHEH-nee
Here
Tauʻanga lēluetau-AH-nga LEH-loo-eh
Train station

The term for a railway station, useful overseas.

PasiPAH-see
Bus
Malaʻe vakapunama-la-EH va-ka-POO-na
Airport
Ha tikite ʻe taha, kātakiha tee-KEE-teh eh TAH-ha kaa-TAH-kee
One ticket, please

Where Tongan is spoken

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