Basic Amharic phrases and words

Everyday Amharic, one topic at a time. Every entry comes from the same reviewed vocabulary the course teaches — Ethiopic script, pronunciation and English side by side.

GreetingsEvery Amharic conversation opens the same warm way.
Thank you & politenessPoliteness carries enormous weight in Ethiopian culture, and a handful of words does most of the work.
NumbersNumbers are the fastest useful Amharic you can learn: prices, times, quantities, phone numbers.
Food & drinkEthiopian food has its own vocabulary and its own rituals — injera under everything, coffee as ceremony.
FamilyFamily is where heritage learners usually start, and Amharic makes it satisfying quickly: learn four nouns and one suffix pattern, and you can already talk about your people..
Question wordsQuestion words are conversation's steering wheel.
Time wordsA dozen little words put every plan and every story on a timeline.
Places & directionsGetting around runs on a small set of nouns and an even smaller set of pointers.

More topics — days of the week, travel, feelings — are added as each new set passes review.

Words stick when you use them

The free course turns these lists into exercises, listening and review — a few words at a time, in an order that builds.

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