This page is part of the phrasebook.
Yes. .i go'i (or) tugni
No. .i na go'i (or) na tugni
Please. pe'u do (or) cpedu
Thank you. ki'e do (or) ckire
Thank you very much. ki'ecai do
That's all right/You're welcome je'e do (or) banzu
I love you. mi prami do (or) .iucai
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 banrtalia
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 zenba
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
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 toldra
old tolni'o 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
Before reading what follows, please take note that talking about the age of someone in lojban is essentially discussing birth dates.
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
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
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 catch that Unicorn yet? pavyseljirna kavbu ba'oxuku