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Months and years in Kikongo

Which month are we in?	1) Nkia ngonde tuna? 2) Nkia ngonde twina?
January	Ntula
Febuary	Ntualani
March	Vutuala
April	Mpemba
May	Mbangi
June	Mpolo
July	Mavungu
August	Kiangala
September	Ntombo
October	Masala
November	Nkukula
December	Luanga

Year phrases

This year	Mu mvu wau
My birthday is in June this year	Lumbu kia luwutuku lwame i muna ngonde a Mpolo ya mvu wau
We have elections this year	Mu mvu wau salu kia sola Nfidi wa nsi tuna kiau
Next year	Mu mvu ukwiza Mvu ulanda
Next year in September the rainy season will start	Mu mvu ukwiza,ntangw’a mvula iyantika muna ngonde a Ntombo
We will finish building the house next year	Mu mvu ukwiza tufokola e salu kia tunga nzo
Last year	1) Mvu waviokele 2) Mvu wavioka
Last year in March it was difficult to travel to Margate	Mu mvu wavioka,diampasi diakala mu vanga nkangalu ku Mbanza Uizi muna ngonde ya Ntualani
We had lots of problems last year due to the drought	Mu mvu wavioka twakala yo mambu mampasi mu kuma kia kondwa kwa maza

A sample sentence

This year in January I moved to Luanda because of the new job that I applied to last year. I'm glad I got the job, now I'm thinking that I will start to build a house in Mbanza Kongo next year so my family can have a house	Mu ngonde ya Ntula ya mvu wau yayaluka yo yantika zingila ku Mbanza Luwanda mu kuma kia salu kiampa yabaka mu mvu wavioka. Diakiese wau yalenda salu kiaki, owau,mu yindula ngina mpasi vo ntunga nzo kuna Mbanza Kongo mu mvu ukwiza kinumana esi nzo ame bavua nzo

Learn Kikongo

Greetings & Introductions
How to greet and introduce yourself in Kikongo

Family
How can you describe your family in Kikongo?

Numbers
How to count in Kikongo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Kikongo

Phrases
Extra phrases in Kikongo that may be handy

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