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Months and years in Umbundu

Month	Osai
Which month are we in?	Tukasi osai yipi?
January	Susu
Febuary	Kayovo
March	Elombo
April	Kupupu
May	Kupemba
June	Kavambi
July	Evambi linene
August	Kanyenye
September	Nyenye
October	Mbala-vipembe
November	Kuvala kwapupulu
December	Cemba nyima

Year phrases

This year	Ulima ulo
My birthday is in June this year	Nditelisa ulima ko sai ya Junho ulima ulo
There are elections this year	Tukuete ocela ulima ulo
Next year	Ulima wiya
Next year in September the rainy season will start	Ulima wiya ko sai ya setembro, ombela yifetika
We will finish building the house next year	Tumala okutunga onjo ulima wiya
Last year	Ulima wapita
Last year in March it was difficult to travel to Huambo	Ulima wapita ko Fevereiro ca Tilile okulinga ungende wo ko Uambu
Last year we had a lot of problems due to the drought	Tuakala lovitangi vialua ulima wapita mekonda lio kuenye

Sample sentence

I moved to Luanda in January this year due to a new job that I had applied for last year. I am happy that I got it and now I’m thinking of building a house in Uambu next year so that my family can have a house.	Nda sondolokela ko Luanda ulima ulo ko Janeiro mekonda liupange wokaliye nda sanga, haimo vo ndikasi okusima okufetika okutunga onjo ko Uambu ulima wiya oco epata liange likale lonjo.

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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