Greetings & Basic Sentences

Question 1

Kida?

Answer 1

How are you? (informal)

Question 2

Ki haal chaal ji?

Answer 2

How are you? (formal)

Question 3

Kivai ho ji?

Answer 3

How are you (formal)

Question 4

Ki kar rahe ho?

Answer 4

What are you doing?

Question 5

Ki ho rehya?

Answer 5

What are you doing?

Question 6

Hoor koi navi taji?

Answer 6

Anything new?

Question 7

Hoor sunao?

Answer 7

Anything more?

Question 8

Kinne bjai?

Answer 8

What time?

Question 9

Tuhādā nām kī hai?

Answer 9

What is your name?

Question 10

Tuhānū mila kē cagā lagi’ā

Answer 10

Nice to meet you

Question 11

Tuhādā kī hāla ai?

Answer 11

How are you?

Question 12

Maim thīka ām, dhanavād

Answer 12

I’m good, thanks

Question 13

Atē tusīm?

Answer 13

And you?

Question 14

Kī tusīm (agarēzī/pajābī) bōla sakadē hō?

Answer 14

Do you speak (English/Punjabi)?

Question 15

Thōrī jihī

Answer 15

A little bit

Question 16

Kī ōha agarēzī bōla sakadī hai?

Answer 16

Does she speak English?

Question 17

Tuh ādī umara kī hai?

Answer 17

How old are you?

Question 18

Maim 23 sāla dā hām

Answer 18

I’m 23 years old

Question 19

Tuhādē nāla gala kara kē cagā lagi’a

Answer 19

It was nice talking to you

Question 20

Tuhādā matalaba kī hai?

Answer 20

What do you mean?

Question 21

Mainū samajha nahīm ā’ī

Answer 21

I don’t understand

Question 22

Mainū patā nahīm

Answer 22

I don’t know

Question 23

Mu’āphi

Answer 23

Sorry

Question 24

Isa nū pajābī ca kī kahidē hana?

Answer 24

What is that called in Punjabi?

Question 25

Isa sabada dā agarēzī ca matalaba kī hai?

Answer 25

What does that word mean in English?

Question 26

Tusī kithōm dē hō?

Answer 26

Where are you from?

Question 27

Maim New Zealand tōm hām

Answer 27

I'm from New Zealand

Question 28

Maim Kiwi hām

Answer 28

I'm Kiwi

Question 29

Cá pīoge?

Answer 29

Will you drink tea?

Question 30

Dúd pīoge?

Answer 30

Will you drink milk?

Question 31

Šarbat pīoge?

Answer 31

Will you drink fruit juice?

Question 32

Kafī pīoge?

Answer 32

Will you drink coffee?

Question 33

Čá loge?

Answer 33

Will you have tea?

Question 34

Dúd loge?

Answer 34

Will you have milk?

Question 35

Barfī loge?

Answer 35

Will you have barfi?

Question 36

Sabzī loge?

Answer 36

Will you have vegetables?

Question 37

É kī e?

Answer 37

What is this?

Question 38

Ó kī e?

Answer 38

What is that?

Question 39

É čá e

Answer 39

This is tea

Question 40

Ó čá e

Answer 40

That is tea

Question 41

Čá čáīdī?

Answer 41

Do you want tea?

Question 42

Kāfī čáīdī?

Answer 42

Do you want coffee?

Question 43

Koī čīz čáīdī?

Answer 43

Do you want anything?

Question 44

Dúd čáīdá?

Answer 44

Do you want milk?

Question 45

Śarbat čāīdā?

Answer 45

Do you want fruit juice?

Question 46

Kúj čáīdā?

Answer 46

Do you want anything?

Question 47

Letters with ~ are…

Answer 47

Nasalised. The sound is pushed up into the mouth rather than out.

Question 48

Ó kī kardá e?

Answer 48

What is he doing?

Question 49

Ó kī kar riá e

Answer 49

What are you doing (immediate present)

Question 50

Tusīm kithē rahidē hō?

Answer 50

Where do you live?

Question 51

Maim New Zealand vica rahidā hām

Answer 51

I live in New Zealand

Question 52

Tusīm rōzī-rōtī la'ī kī karadē hō?

Answer 52

What do you do for a living?

Question 53

Maim vidi'ārathī hām

Answer 53

I'm a student

Question 54

Maim HR vica kama karadā hām

Answer 54

I work in HR

Question 55

Āo jī

Answer 55

Welcome

Question 56

Betho

Answer 56

Sit down/take a seat/come in

Question 57

Kī hāl e?

Answer 57

How are you?

Question 58

Accha, tusī sunāo?

Answer 58

Fine, how about you?

Question 59

Mērbānī

Answer 59

Thank you (formal)

Question 60

Naī, koī taklīf nā karo

Answer 60

No thanks, don't bother

Question 61

Naī, koī taklīf naī

Answer 61

It's no trouble

Question 62

Acchā, mērbānī

Answer 62

Ok, thanks

Question 63

Āo, ēdar āo. kiwē āe?

Answer 63

Come in. What brings you here?

Question 64

Ewē, miln wāste

Answer 64

Just to see you

Question 65

Āo ãdar ā jāo

Answer 65

Come in, please