Important reminder: Mando'a was designed as flavoring for the stories that its creator wanted to tell in the Republic Commando series. Thus, the original author only came up with words to enhance those particular stories, which is why there is a lot of rude slang. So, if you can't find something, that means the author didn't come up with a word for it, even if if there might have been such words in-universe.
Nonetheless, Mando'a can express many concepts despite the limited vocabulary, but you must be creative and think outside of word-for-word translations. The lists below offer tips for translating a wide selection of common English words, phrases, and concepts into Mando'a. (Dialects expand on the base dictionary based on requests from the dialects' members. Your favorite fan dictionary and Mando community may offer additional words for or different ways of expressing these concepts.)
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Links to in-universe and on-Earth culture resources ; the drop-down menu under Mando Droten, under Bajur, has pages dedicated to the Resol'nare, art, cin vhetin, food, holidays, myths, marriage, and funerary practices.
Note to users of this grammar guide: There are many opinions on Mando'a grammar out there, some based on the slimmest evidence, some deduced without realizing the existence of other sample sentences or information about Mandos, and so on. I laud each person’s efforts. However, I have also formed my own conclusions. If something appears in here that seems to contradict or not take into account someone else’s opinions, then consider those to be dialect variations.
This grammar guide takes a formal approach to Mando'a that many people do not follow. In most Earth languages, rules exist to properly use the language to ensure the best possible communication; the same is true of Mando'a. Like with most Earth languages, too, not everyone follows these rules for various reasons.
Animals (including ideas for talking about pets)
Another (the descriptor, not the pronoun)
Ashnar (including when to use ashnar, ash'ad, and adat)
Answer, response (including "answer me!" and cultural background notes)
At long last (the phrase)
Bat (as location word and as an indication of participating in an activity)
Bid (various ways to use this word)
Body-related words (including body parts, sickness, and injury)
Colors (including for colors not included in the base list, such as orange)
Combat (particularly hand-to-hand or close-range combat)
Communications services (including HoloNet, websites, social-media services, and other electronic forms of communication)
Deal, promise, vow (including how to accept a contract or confirm a promise)
Directions (locational prepositions)
Family: see Relationships
Fighting: see Combat
Food (words and phrases)
Harsh words (insults and other terms of abuse; not safe for work, children, or those with delicate sensibilities; opens a Google doc file)
Holidays, memorials, and celebrations of in-universe Mandalorians (notes about what can be found in the source material)
Hungry: see Food
Kih vs. 'ika (different words related to the concept of "small")
Kyr'tayl (thoughts on its meaning)
Meg (tips for using this word)
Myths and key cultural concepts (small list)
Numbers (including simple mathematical equations)
Patient (as in the descriptor)
Patient (as in "someone who needs medical care")
Play (verb)
Proud (being proud, having pride)
Pronouns (list of)
Regret (also useful for translating "melancholy")
Relationships (including terms of endearment or respect)
Some (including someone)
Thirsty: see Food
To (At/Bah) (how to use the two different forms of "to")
Trattok'or (how to use the word that means "to fail, fall, collapse")
Trial, Challenge, Struggle (and similar concepts)
Vacation (time off from work, holiday in the sense of time off of work)
Earth foods and animals (what to do for Earth-specific terms)
Articles (a/an, the, emphatic the)
Descriptors (what are descriptors and how to make the comparative and superlative versions of them)
Negation (how to use nu/ne/n'; how to say something is "not" something else; double negatives)
Plural nouns (including special plurals)
Verbs: for basic conjugation rules, see Sentences
Sentence structure for statements (including conjugation examples and tips on punctuation and capitalization)
Commands (imperative mood for verbs)
Conditional (conditional mood for verbs)
Intention (how to express the purpose of an action)
Questions (interrogative mood for verbs)
Subjunctive mood (for hypothetical situations and to express requests, demands, and wishes)
Names (for characters or a new nickname for yourself)