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(New page: === Times=== {| style="color:green;background-color:#ffffcc;" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" | kgantele || a few moments/hours ago |- | gompieno || today |- | maabane || yest...)
 
 
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=== Times===
 
=== Times===
 
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| beke e || this week  
 
| beke e || this week  
 
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| beke e e tlang || the week which is coming
 
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| beke e e fetileng || the week which is past
 
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| kgwedi || month
 
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| ngwaga || year
 
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| paka e selemo || summer
 
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| paka e mariga || winter
 
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| paka e letlhatula || harvest time
 
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| bosigo || night  
 
| bosigo || night  
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=== Telling the Time===
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|  ke robetse ka 11 maabane bosigo || I slept at 11 o'clock yesterday night
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Latest revision as of 23:20, 2 June 2007

nako mang? = what time? ke nako mang ? = what time is it?

Times

kgantele a few moments/hours ago
gompieno today
maabane yesterday
kamoso tomorrow
maloba a few days/weeks/months ago
maloba a maabane day before yesterday
beke e this week
beke e e tlang the week which is coming
beke e e fetileng the week which is past
kgwedi month
ngwaga year
paka e selemo summer
paka e mariga winter
paka e letlhatula harvest time


Times of day

phakela / mo mosong morning
motshegare day time
tshokologo afternoon
maitseboa evening
bosigo night

Telling the Time

ke robetse ka 11 maabane bosigo I slept at 11 o'clock yesterday night
x x
x x
x x


Examples

x x
x x
x x
x x
x x