This page is part of the phrasebook.
- Yes.
- .i go'i
- I agree.
- mi tugni
- No.
- .i na go'i
- I do not agree.
- mi na tugni
- Please.
- pe'u
- I request.
- mi cpedu
- Thanks.
- ki'e
- Thank you.
- ki'e do
- Thank you very much.
- ki'e sai do
- That's all right/You're welcome
- je'e do
- I love you.
- mi prami do (or) .iu sai
- What you just said about yourself is true for me too.
- ''go'ira'o""
In other words, if someone says "I love you" and you want to reply "I love you too", say "go'ira'o".
Languages
- Do you speak ...
- .i xu do se bangu ...
- Lojban
- la lojban.
(In some places you may also hear "le jbobau")
- English
- le glibau
- French
- le fasybau
- German
- le dotybau
- Spanish
- le sanbau
- Italian
- le bangrtalia
- Chinese
- le jugbau
- Japanese
- le ponbau
- Hindi
- le xinbau
- Russian
- le rukybau
- Arabic
- le rabybau
- I don't speak Lojban
- .i mi na se bangu la lojban.
- Where is the phrase in this book?
- .i ma jufra gi'e se vanbi le vi cukta
- Just a minute. I'll see if I can find it in this book.
- i .e'o ko denpa .i mi troci co tolcri fi le vi cukta
- I understand.
- je'e / .i mi jimpe
- I don't understand
- je'enai / .i mi na jimpe
- Could you talk more slowly please?
- .i .e'o ko skusno
- Do you understand me?
- je'epei / xu do jimpe fi mi - xu do jimpe fi 'tu'a' mi (??) ...fi le se cusku be mi
- I am hungry
- mi xagji
- I am thirsty
- mi taske
- Where is the bathroom?
- ma stuzi le djacu kumfa
- Where is the toilet?
- ma stuzi le vimku'a
Some common words
- big
- barda small cmalu
- quick
- sutra slow masno
- early
- clira late lerci
- cheap
- tolkargu expensive kargu
- near
- jibni far darno
- hot
- glare cold lenku
- full
- culno empty kunti
- easy
- frili difficult nandu
- heavy
- tilji light linto
- open
- kalri shut ganlo
- right (of a person)
- tolsre wrong srera
- right (of a fact, etc.)
- drani wrong jitfa
- old
- slabu new cnino
- old
- tolci'o young citno
- beautiful
- melbi ugly tolmle
- good
- xamgu bad xlali
- better
- xagmau worse xlamau
- a lot
- mutce a little milxe
- sufficient
- banzu insufficient tolbanzu
Presenting yourself and some others...
Before reading what follows, please take note that talking about the age of someone in lojban is essentially discussing birth dates.
Yourself
- I am ...-years-old (bad translation)
- .i tu'a mi nanca li ...
- (duration of life)
- .i mi renvi fi li ...
- I was born in ... (date)
- mi jbena fi li ...
- I was born in ... (place)
- mi jbena fo ...
- I am ... tall (speaking about your height, unit unspecified)
- li ... cu ni mi clani
- I am ... meters tall
- mi mitre li ... le ni clani
- I speak english.
- mi se bangu le glibau
- I can speak french.
- mi ka'e se bangu le fasybau
- I would like to visit ...
- mi djica le nu mi vitke fi ...
- I work as ...
- mi se jibri ...
- My mother is called ...
- zo ... cu cmene le mamta be mi
- Alice is my mother.
- la alis mi mamta
- My favorite color is ...
- mi zmanei le ka ... (insert color verb)
- I prefer the blue one over the red one.
- mi zmanei le blanu le xunre
- What's happening?
- .i mo
- I'm lost
- mi djuno noda le se zvati be mi
- I practice sport
- mi xadgu'a
Nationality
- I'm ...
- mi ...
- Spanish
- spano
- Hispanic
- xispo
- French
- fraso
- Chilean
- tci'ile
- Czech
- tce'exo
- Breton
- bre'one
- Hungarian
- magjaro
- Basque
- skalduna
- Russian
- rusko
If you want to say "I'm French by birth but German by nationality", you can say "mi fraso le ka jbena gi'e dotco le ka se natmi".
- I'm French by ...
- mi fraso le ka ...
- birth
- jbena
- nationality
- se natmi
- citizenship
- selgugycmi
- ancestry
- se dzena
- language
- se bangu
- ancestry
- se dzena
- language
- se bangu
Colors
Beware, the following words are verbs. For example, "this is orange" is "ti narju" - no "is" required. The word "cu" (which does not mean "is" but is a predicate marker, like "i" in tok Pisin) may be used before the verb.
- xekri
- black
- blanu
- blue
- bunre
- brown
- cicna
- cyan
- manku
- dark
- kandi
- dim
- grusi
- grey
- crino
- green
- nukni
- magenta
- narju
- orange
- zirpu
- purple
- xunre
- red
- labyxu'e
- rose
- xunblabi
- pink
- blabi
- white
- pelxu
- yellow
Asking others about themselves and you
- When are you born ?
- .i do jbena fi ma
- What is your size ?
- .i ma ni do clani
- Where do you live ?
- .i do xabju ma
- What are you doing ?
- .i do mo
- Where do you work ?
- .i do se briju fi ma
- Can you speak language ... ?
- .i xu do ka'e tavla bau ...
- What is your father's name ?
- .i ma cmene le patfu be do
- Have you already been to place ... ?
- .i xu do pu zvati ...
- How much do you earn ?
- .i do jerna li xo
- Where are you going to ?
- .i do klama ma
- Where do you come from ?
- .i do klama fi ma
- Did you know that ... ?
- .i xu do pu djuno fi le du'u ...
- What do you want me to do ?
- .i do djica le nu mi mo
- Can you help me ?
- pei sidju mi
- Do you find me pretty ?
- xu mi do melbi
- Do you live with someone ?
- xu do da kansa le ka xabju
- Are you married ?
- xu do speni
- Do you have (a) lover(s) ?
- xu do prami selpe'o
- Have you caught that Unicorn yet?
- pavyseljirna kavbu ba'oxuku