Users' questions

What does Moretlo mean?

What does Moretlo mean?

A submission from South Africa says the name Moretlo means “A small red indigenous edible fruit” and is of African origin. A name given to female Bataung; the wife of Makhothi (Moletsane) was ‘Mamoretlo – mother of Moretlo” and is of Lesotho origin.

What is the meaning of Tswana?

1 : a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Botswana and the Republic of South Africa. 2 : the language of the Tswana people.

What is the meaning of Motlogolo?

motlogolo and setlogolo. Since there is a tendency nowadays to regard these words as identical synonyms it is necessary to explain the difference in meaning between them. Motlogolo designates the child of kgaitšedi, i.e. it is the term of a maternal uncle uses to refer to his sisters’ children.

What is Mmutlwa in English?

Mmutlwa. /m-mu-tlwa / Thorn.

What does qoboshiyane mean?

Qoboshiyane meaning related to work Climbing the echelons in a methodical and logical manner.

What are you saying in Tswana?

Useful phrases in Tswana

English Setswana (Tswana)
Hello (General greeting) Dumela
How are you? O tsogile jang (sg) Le kae? (sg) Le tsogile jang? (pl)
Reply to ‘How are you?’ Ke tsogile sentle (sg) Re teng (sg) Re tsogile sentle (pl)
Long time no see Ke kgale re sa bonane

What are Setswana colors?

A combination of perceptual and linguistic measures converged to suggest that Setswana probably has six basic terms, which may be glossed as ‘white’, ‘black’, ‘red’, ‘grue’ (blue and green), ‘brown’, and ‘yellow’.

What does me mean in Setswana?

noun proper + grammar. Initialism of [i]master of engineering[/i].

What is I love you in Tswana?

I love you!” Ke a lo rata!”

Are you crazy in Setswana?

Lesego ? on Twitter: “English: You’re crazy Setswana: Wa tsenwa SePitori: Wa knocker? #LearnPitori… “

What is purple in Setswana?

THERE IS ACTUALLY A SETSWANA WORD FOR ‘PURPLE’ AND IT’S NOT ‘PHEPOLE’ • Sengwatjetse dialect gives the language its only native term for the colour. The latest addition to the endless quarrel that is Botswana’s political movement is the Alliance for Progressives (AP) which has adopted purple as its official colour.