Q&A for How to Learn Sesotho

You can say: "Ke a leboha" or "me lebohile".

You say "Ke u hopotse."

In Sesotho, you would say "O hloka ho tseba."

A direct translation would be "O lerato la bophelo (life) baka", but a grammatically-correct translation is "O lerato la pelo ea ka".

"Ke se ke fihlile" if you have just arrived to a particular place; "Ke se ke le teng", which is the direct translation from "I'm here"; or "Ke teng", which is the shortened version of "Ke se ke le teng".

It means "We do not stay at the same place, I stay at Sebokeng". The sentence is a mixture of Sesotho and English words and the way it is written is informal. For instance, Sesotho from Lesotho as opposed to South African's the sound "d" is produced by the letter "l'.

You can say "E nka nako". "Nako" means "time", "nka" means "to take" and "E" is a pronoun which equals "it" in English.

You say "Robala hantle le uena". "Robala" means "to sleep" , "hantle" means "well" in this context, "le uena" goes as a pair in this case to mean "even you or you as well or you too".

You say "Se ke ua potlaka". "Se ke" goes as a pair in this context to mean "do not", "ua" indicates that the first person is talking in second person and "potlaka" means "to rush or quicken or to make haste" and so on. "Se ke ua tata" means the same thing although the word "tata" is not formal, you can use it still when you are talking in an informal setting.

Introducing yourself in Sesotho is very easy, you say "Lebitso la ka ke (your name)". You have the option of saying your full name or just your first name. But if you want to be specific about which is your first name and which is your last, you can say "Lebitso la ka ke (first name)" and "Fane ea ka ke (last name)".

Seke wa potlaka (Don't rush), hotlonka or hontlanka nako (it will take time).