Multilingual Phrase Finder

On this page you can see useful phrases in over 300 languages in any combination of two of those languages. Just select the languages from the drop-down menus. If the phrases are in blue, you can click on them to hear recordings.

Key to abbreviations: frm = formal, inf = informal, sg = singular (said to one person), pl = plural (said to more than one person), m = said by males, f = said by females, pl = said to several people, > = said to.

English	Niuean
Hello Hi (inf)	Fakaalofa atu Fakaalofa atu ki o koe (sg) Fakaalofa atu ki a mua (dl) Fakaalofa atu ki a mutolu (pl)
How are you? How are things? (inf) How's it going? (inf) Alright? (inf)	Malolō nakai a koe?
Fine thanks, and you? Not bad, and yourself? (inf) Okay, and you? (inf)	Malolō, fakaue
What's your name? What are you called?	Ko hai e higoa haau?
My name is ... I'm called ...	Ko ... e higoa haaku
I'm from ... I come from ...	Nofo au i ...
Pleased to meet you Nice to meet you A pleasure to meet you	Mitaki kua feleveia a taua
Good morning Morning	Monuina e pogipogi
Good evening Evening	Monuina e afiafi
Good night Night night (inf) Sweet dreams Good night, sleep tight Good night, sleep tight, hope the bedbugs don't bite	Monuina e po Mohe a
Goodbye Farewell (frm) Bye Bye bye See you See you later later so long cheers cheerio toodle-oo ta-ta tara ciao	Koe kia (sg) Mua (dl) Mua kia (dl) Mutolu (pl) Mutolu kia (pl)
Have a nice day Have a lovely day Have a pleasant day Have a good day	Monuina e aho
Yes Yeah (inf)	E
No Nah (inf)	Nakai
I don't know I dunno (inf) Dunno (inf)	Nākai iloa e au
I don't understand I don't get it	Ai maama e au Nākai maama
Please say that again Could you say that again? Please repeat that	Fakmolemole, talahau foki lā
Please write it down Could you possibly write it down? Could you write it down? Would you mind writing it down?	Tohi, fakamolemole
Excuse me	Fakamolemole
Sorry I'm sorry Terribly sorry Awfully sorry I apologise	Fakamolemole la
Please	Fakamolemole
Thank you Thank you very much Thanks a lot (inf) Thanks (inf) Ta (inf) Cheers (inf)	Fakaaue Fakaue lahi
Where's the toilet? Where's the loo? Where's the bathroom? Where's the gents? Where's the ladies? Where's the bog? (inf)	Ko fe e falevao?
Merry Christmas	Monuina a aho kilisimasi mo e tau foou
Happy birthday	Monuina e aho fanau haau

Please note that not all phrases are available for every language. If you can help to supply any of the missing phrases, and/or can make recordings of phrases that don't already have them, please contact me.

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