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Lesson 6 of 10

Cafe and restaurant in Zulu

A table, the menu, what you cannot eat, and a compliment to the kitchen. Play the ten Zulu words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

Cape Vidal Beach in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Cafe and restaurant
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Zulu phrases in this lesson

Itafula labantu ababiliee-TAH-foo-la la-BAN-too a-ba-BEE-li
A table for two
Ngicela imenyungi-CE-la ee-MEN-yoo
The menu, please

Imenyu is a borrowed word for menu. The c marks a dental click.

Uncoma ini?oon-COH-ma EE-ni
What do you recommend?
Angidli...an-GI-dli
I don't eat...
Ngine-aleji ku...ngi-neh a-LEH-ji koo
I'm allergic to...
Inyamaee-NYA-ma
Meat

A word for meat.

Inkukhueen-KOO-khoo
Chicken
Inhlanzieen-HLAN-zi
Fish
Kumnandikoom-NAN-di
It's delicious

Can describe something pleasant or tasty.

Impilo!im-PI-lo
Cheers

Literally health or life, used as a toast.

Where Zulu is spoken

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