Flat Recordings CD 02 03

Compact Disk 02 03 Zulu for Medics

EXTRACTS from ZULU FOR MEDICS

English male:         G-14. Where do you work?
English female:     You work where?
Zulu male:               Usebenza gupi?
English male:         G-15. What job or work do you do?
English female:     You work, which work?
Zulu male:               Usebenza muphi umsebenzi?
English male:         G-16. Do you still work?
English female:     You still are working?
Zulu male:               Usasebenza na?
English male:         G-17. I don’t work anymore.
English female:     I don’t still work.
Zulu male:               Ungesasebenzi.
English male:         I don’t work.
Zulu male:               Ungesebenzi.
English male:         G-18. When did you stop working?
English female:     You stopped when to work?
Zulu male:               Uyeke nini ugusebenza?
 
English male:         G-42. My father is dead.
English female:     The father to me he is dead.
Zulu male:               Ubaba wami ushonele.
English male:         G-43. My mother is alive.
English female:     The mother to me she is alive.
Zulu male:               Umama wami usaphila.
English male:         G-44. My brother is sick.
English female:     The brother to me he is sick.
Zulu male:               Ubuthi wami uyagula.
English male:         G-45. My sister is healthy.
English female:     The sister to me she is healthy.
Zulu male:               Usisi wami uyaphila.
 
English female:     In Zulu the question form is simply a statement
said with an interrogative intonation. “Na” emphasizes the
question form like the Afrikaans “Né” and it is optional.
English male:         G-55. Do you smoke?
English female:     You do smoke!
Zulu male:               Uyabema na!
English male:         G-56. Do you drink?
English female:     You do drink!
Zulu male:               Uyaphuza na!
English male:         G-57. What? That is what do you drink?
English female:     You drink which alcoholic beverage, beer?
Zulu male:               Uphuza bupi utshwala na?
English male:         G-58. Do you take medicines?
English female:     Do you drink medicines?
Zulu male:               Uyayiphuza imiti na?
English male:         G-59. Do you see the witchdoctor?
English female:     You go is it so to the witchdoctor?
Zulu male:               Uyaya yini ezinyangeni zabantu?
English male:         G-61. Do you take anything from the witchdoctor?
English female:     You take is it so medicines at the witchdoctor?
Zulu male:               Uyayithata yini imiti ezinyangeni?