Hi.
I am trying to learn Yoruba. Since I have been in the UK all my life I never really got taught the language.
Could someone tell me how to say the following in Yoruba:

Hello
How are you?
I love you
Goodnight
Thank you
What are you doing?

And any other basic phrases you can think of.

Also I am getting a few tattoos and I'd like to have the following in Yoruba:

Nigerian roots
Rest in peace
Only God can judge me

Thank you.

gbking , wassup
i was exactly like u but i started to have yoruba friends , socializing mostly around yorubas it might help it took me years to speak fluently tho
since am on thread i can help wiv d little  i no

Helo how are u - ba wo ni
i love u - mo ni fe e
goodnight - odaro
thank you - oseun
what are you doing - ki lon she
how was  today - ba wo leni
goodmorning- Karo
i want to go and eat - mo fe lo jeun

i have added a few bits , digest dose 1 first den we can begin another lecture
peace 

Thanks man. I hear my family speaking Yoruba and I have always wanted to pick up on it so I could teach my kids some of their roots that they wouldn't really see otherwise as I am only mixed race with a white partner. I am Nigerian and English, so my kids are quarter-caste (me being half-caste, mulatto, mixed race, what ever label you would like to put on it) and my girlfriend being white.

Those phrases are pretty easy to master I think, got any more?

hmm are u sure u mastered the ones i listed king
u would sit a test dis week o

Yes they seem easy. Don't know if i'm pronouncing them right but I can type them for sure.

Idowuogbo:

gbking , wassup
i was exactly like u but i started to have yoruba friends , socializing mostly around yorubas it might help it took me years to speak fluently tho
since am on thread i can help wiv d little i no

Helo how are u - ba wo ni
i love u - mo ni fe e
goodnight - odaro
thank you - oseun
what are you doing - ki lon she
how was today - ba wo leni
goodmorning- Karo
i want to go and eat - mo fe lo jeun

i have added a few bits , digest dose 1 first den we can begin another lecture
peace

I trust my person . . . Hmmmm you don reach here
I wish i can contribute but my yoruba is not that perfect!

@king
awwh it takes a while to hit d pronounciation dear
okay
bye bye ,- odabo
i am jus coming bck from work -mo she she de la ti bishe
i am ill - ara mi o ya
what are we eating tonite - ki la ma je la le yi
breakfast - ounje aro

now u have to master d pronounciation  , good luck

@@dsense
teach him d few u no joor , he wants to learn
b ur brodas keeper

OP.
I love D-sense = Mo ni fe D-sense.
I want to marry D-sense = Mo fe fe D-sense.

@Idowuogbo I will get my gran to help me with pronunciation when I see her.
I'm learning them you just taught me now.

@D-sense haha, joker.

^^

U need 2 learn d insults also.

You need it

^^Means we should try insult her small

gbking:

@Idowuogbo I will get my gran to help me with pronunciation when I see her.
I'm learning them you just taught me now.

good thinking , yep granny is a plus
u wud learn faster , she wud b also proud of her granbaby efforts


emmh i shal teach ur first insult

repeat after me = ewure ni tayo
(tayo is a goat )

@gbking,

pls i need you to indicate whether u want 2 learn insults or not.

I'm willin 2 assist 

Yeah man, insults are needed too.
When the uncles are out of line

I'm In to teach  insults
Freee of charge

Hit me with insults and I'll learn them.
Oseun everybody by the way.

I have a question though. Is Yoruba grammar the same as English? Do you put things in the same order?
Also, I've looked through some posts and people are speaking fluent Yoruba and then have a random English word in there. Why is this??

that happens wen pple esp d younger generation r tryna speak 'touche' yoruba.

They mix English in between.

Having a random words mixed with yoruba is normal . . .We enjoy speaking it so much!
These are some insullts in Yoruba . . . .

Oloshi  = Misfortunate or poor.
Omoale = Bastaarrd .
Ewure/ Ogunfe = a goat.
Ode = Dumb.
Ole = Thief.
Olodo = Novice or Loser.

@tayo_ast Whats touche Yoruba? I think I get what you mean though.

@D-sense Oseun, but,
Both you and Idowuogbo have said goat as an insult, why is this?

notin serious jus a normal insult
just d same way americans sey hefer for cow

Yep yep yep . . . .  . .Idowuogbo is Ewure
**Running far away**

hehehe,wam wam wam u is an obuko dudu

haha okay

Whats an obuko dudu?

Hahahaha too much Idowu  

@gbking, u can also call sm1 a eranko buburu (wild animal)

e.g. Idowuogbo is a wild animal

     Eranko buburu ni idowuogbo. . . . no offense

So in Yoruba you would say:

Eranko buburu ni tayo_ast
(Wild animal is tayo_ast)

instead of

tayo_ast is a wild animal?

wat??

You'll say, eranko buburu ni gbking

. . . . .Clowns

thats Yoruba for u.

The insult precedes d subject. . . ya dig

e.g Baba were ni gbking (gbking don dey madt)

instead of saying madt is gbking. . . .hope i'm not complicatin tins for ya

^^^You just did for her!

I get the insult comes first bit.

Baba were ni gbking (gbking don dey madt)

instead of saying madt is gbking


I just don't get what the bit in bold means, teach me?