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Talking about your family (Ombunga) in Umbundu

The Family	Epata
Mother	Mãi
Father	Tate
Parents	Vo Tate
Sister	Manji Ufeko
Brother	Manji Ulume
Son	Omolã ulume
Daugther	Omolã ukãi
Husband	Ukuacisola
Wife	Ukuacisola
Grandmother	Kuku

How to talk about your family with examples in the plural case

Man Woman	Ulume Ukãi
The women here do not speak Portuguese	Kulo akãi kavapopi Oputu

How to talk about your family with examples in the singular case

My wife is at the farm	Ukãi wange okasi Kepia
Your husband speaks too much	Ulume wove ovangula enene
The>uncle of the neighbour has a lot of girlfriends	Tio ya yu Tulisungue, okuete afeko valua
Our daughter is cooking Fufu	Omola wetu okasi lokupika iputa

Learn Umbundu

Greetings & Introductions
How to greet and introduce yourself in Umbundu

Family
How can you describe your family in Umbundu?

Numbers
How to count in Umbundu

Days of the week
How to say days of the week in Umbundu

Months of the year
How to say months of the year in Umbundu

Time Concepts
How say early, late, always and other concepts in Umbundu

Question Words
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? How Much?

Traveling
Need to get to travel somewhere? Learn how to do it in Umbundu

Shopping
Let's go shopping and see how to buy items in Umbundu

Important Verbs
To be, To Have, To Do, To Say, To Go, To Know, To Want, To Can & To Use

Media
List of music, dances and movies in Umbundu

Phrases
Extra phrases in Umbundu that may be handy

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