Category: Vocabulary

This lesson adds slightly more words than normal, expanding your choice of nouns and verbs so you can make use of the new things we have learned.

ata	even, even though	conjunction
–batela	protect	verb
–benga	call	verb
boyangeli	rulership	noun
ebandeli	beginning	noun
ekolo	nation, country	noun
elikya	hope	noun
eloko	thing (physical)	noun
–leka	pass	verb
libondeli	prayer, supplication	noun
likanisi	thought	noun
–limbola	explain	verb
liwa	death	noun
–longa	win, succeed	verb
–longola	remove	verb
nde	then	adverb
–sakola	preach	verb
–salela	serve, work for	verb
–sila	finish	verb
–silisa	make finish	verb
–tambola	walk	verb
–tambwisa	direct	verb

This lesson adds slight more words than normal, expanding your choice of nouns and verbs so you can make use of the new things we have learned in this lesson.

–banda	begin	verb
bolamu	goodness	noun
bolenge	youth (abstract)	noun
bomoko	oneness, unity	noun
bomoto	personality, character	noun
bonene	greatness	noun
elenge	young person, youth	noun
–koba	continue	verb
–koma	come, become	verb
lelo	today	noun
lingomba	church, religion	noun
mobeko	law	noun
mobimba	whole	adjective
mokolo	day	noun
mokonzi	chief, king	noun
–monisa	show, cause to see	verb
motema	heart	noun
ndakisa	example, demonstration	noun
–pona	choose	verb
–pusana	draw near, draw close	verb
–salisa	help, make work	verb
seko	forever, eternal	noun?
–ya	come to	verb
–yangela	rule	verb
–yebisa	inform, make known	verb
–yoka	hear, feel, smell	verb
–zwa	receive, get, take	verb

In this lesson we have some prepositions, as well as other useful nouns and verbs, that will make up our vocabulary.

bokonzi	authority, kingdom	noun
elongo	together	adverb
ete	that	conjunction
–kanisa	think	verb
kasi	but	conjunction
–koka	be able, capable, perfect	verb
libota	family	noun
likoló	up, heaven, above	preposition, noun
liteya	teaching, lesson	noun
lokola	like	preposition
mokili	world, country	noun
mosala	work, job, task	noun
mpenza	really	adverb
–ndima	believe, have faith, accept	verb
nse	below, bottom, down	preposition
nsima	after, back, behind	preposition
–sengela	require, need	verb
–tosa	obey	verb
–yekola	learn	verb
–zanga	lack, be without	verb

This lesson introduces some words that will let us add a few more verbs and nouns. Don’t forget that you now know all the adjectives and nouns you have learned in the previous two lessons.

bolingo	love	noun
buku	book	noun
esengo	joy	noun
–kufa	to die	verb
lisusu	again, in addition to	adverb
–loba	to speak, talk	verb
mabelé	earth, ground, soil	noun
makasi	strong, hard	adjective
mama	mother	noun
mingi	very, many, much	adjective
moke	small, little	adjective
mosusu	other, another	adjective
nguya	power	noun
nzela	way, route, road	noun
–pesa	to give	verb
–sepela	to enjoy	verb
solo	truth, true	noun
–tanga	to read, count	verb
tata	father	noun
–teya	to teach	verb

This lesson introduces some words that will let us add to the simple sentences that we learned in the last lesson, along with some important verbs and pronouns.

bango	them	pronoun
bino	you (plural)	pronoun
biso	us	pronoun
bomoi	life	noun
boni	quantity, how (many, much)	pronoun
liboso	first, before	adverb
–linga	to like, love, want	verb
moko	one, self	adjective
–mona	see	verb
mpe	also, and	conjunction
mpo	for	preposition
ndenge	way (abstract)	pronoun
ngai	me, I	pronoun
ntango	time, when	noun
–sala	to do, act, work	verb
ya	of	conjunction
yango	it, that	pronoun
ye	him	pronoun
–yeba	to know	verb
yo	you (singular)	pronoun

Each lesson will introduce us to around 20 new words. These words will be among the most commonly used by Lingala speakers and can be easily learned in a week. This lesson will introduce some words that will let us form some simple sentences so that we can quickly use them in conversation.

εε	yes	adverb
kitoko	beautiful, pretty, nice	adjective
likambo	thing	noun
mabe	bad, evil, wicked	adjective
malamu	good, well	adjective
mobali	man, husband	noun
monene	big, great	adjective
moto	person	noun
mwana	child	noun
mwasi	woman, wife	noun
na	with, of, from, to, between, in	conjunction
nani	who	pronoun
nini	what	pronoun
nkombo	name	noun
nsango	news	noun
nyonso	all, every	adjective
nzambe	god	noun
te	no, not	adverb
–zal–	be	verb
–zal– na	have	verb