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Help for translating

Mando'a can express many concepts despite the limited vocabulary, but you must be creative and think outside of word-for-word translations. Here is help with some common English words that have different ways of expressing their concepts in Mando'a. 

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Your favorite fan dictionary and Mando community may offer additional words for these concepts.

• About

• Against

• Age

• After, Then

• Animals (including ideas for talking about pets)

• Apologizing

• Ashnar

• Before

• Curious

• Deal, promise, vow (including how to accept a contract or confirm a promise)

• Deny

• Do and don't

• Done

• Door, doorway, and related concepts

• Dragon

• Duplicate

• Earn

• Exchanging names

• Feelings

• Finish

• Food (words and phrases)

• The Force

• Harsh words (insults and other terms of abuse; not safe for work; opens a Google doc file)

• Holidays, memorials, and celebrations of in-universe Mandalorians (notes about what can be found in the source material)

• How

• Invite

• Kindness

• Kyr'tayl (thoughts on its meaning)

• Like/Dislike

• Meditate

• Mercy, grace, and forgiveness

• Military ranks

• Myths and key cultural concepts (small list)

• Negation (how to use nu/ne/n'; how to say something is "not" something else; double negatives)

• Neither

• Numbers (including simple mathematical equations)

• Outside

• Play (verb)

• Plural nouns (including special plurals)

• Proud —ways to say "I'm proud of you" (takes you to a different but related site)

• Pronouns (list of)

• Relationships (including terms of endearment or respect)

• Reply to an expression of gratitude

• Science words

• Seek

• Summon

• Start

• Stop

• Surrender

• Teacher

• Time and Tenses

• To (At/Bah) (how to use the two different forms of "to")

• Trial, Challenge, Struggle (and similar concepts)

• "Doer" words and job titles

• Earth foods and animals (what to do for Earth-specific terms)

• Place names

• Descriptors (what are descriptors and how to make the comparative and superlative versions of them)

• Sentence structure for statements (including conjugation examples)

• Articles (a/an, the, emphatic the)

• Passive voice

• Intention (how to express the purpose of an action)

• Commands

• Questions

• Two verbs

• Special grammar rules for songs and poems

• Names (for characters or a new nickname for yourself)