নহাক মোবাইল ফোন সিজিনব্র? (nahāk mobāil phon sijinabra) - Do you use a mobile phone?

নহাক্কী ফোন নম্বর কয়নো? (nahākkī phon nambar kayano) - What's your phone number?

ঐহাককী ফোন নম্বর ইসনবিয়ু (eihākkī phon nambar isanbiyu) - Please note down my phone number.

নহাক ঐঙোন্দা তেক্স অস-এম-অসি থরকপসু য়াই (nahāk eingonda teks as em asi tharakpasu yai) - You can text/SMS me as well

ইরাই লাইনা (irāi lāinā) - easily

ঐখোয় অনিনা অমাগা অমাগা পাউ ফউন্নবা য়ারাগনি। (eikhoy aninā amāgā amāgā pāu phaunnabā yārāgani) - We both can contact each other easily.

ইপুবোক (ipubok) - grandfather

ঐহাক কী ইপুবোক না হুজিক ফউবা লেন লাইনা সিজিন্নারি (eihāk kī ipubok nā hujik phaubā len lāinā sijinnāri) - My grandfather still uses landline.

It’s a beautiful day. It is so sunny yet you can feel the chills from the crazy wind, at the same time. I complain that Auckland weather is always PMSing. She goes crazy, you know! It’s sunny one moment and you are all excited to head out and the moment you step out of your room and happily open the gate; all you see is a gloomy windy crazy weather.

Anyways, let’s focus on something more whoosh wooshy today.

First thing first, for us, Love is Nungshi (universal term). Also, if you hear bi or ba after a certain word, then you should always remember that, Bi is feminine and Ba is masculine!!

Here it goes....

1.   I LOVE YOU: Eina nang nungshi. (I you love)

2.   I LOVE YOU TOO: Eisu nang nungshi. (I also you love)

3.  I LOVE YOU SO MUCH: Ei nang yam nungshi. (I you lots love)

4.  Calling LOVE to a girl: Nungshibi

5.   Calling LOVE to a guy: Nungshiba

6.   I hate you: Eina nang Nungshide. (I you don’t love)

7.   Nang eigini: You are mine. (you mine)

8.   Ei nangini: I am yours. (I yours)

9: I MISS YOU: Ei nang ningshingey/ ei nang miss touwe. (I you remember)

10. I want to see you: Ei nang uningey. (I you see)

11. Beautiful: Phajeiye/Phajaba/ Phajabi (Bi is for female and Ba for male)

12. You are very Beautiful: Nang yaam phajeiye. (you very beautiful)

I can’t think of anything else today.. :/ It’s been so long I sat down to write something. Well, atleast I tried!

Anyways, hopefully this will suffice for today and I will post more day-to-day used Manipuri words soon..

Happy new year to everyone!!

Have a blast!

Yayyyyy!!

(from the Bhasha Sangam app)

নহাক করম তৌরি? (nahāk karam tauri) - How are you?

থাগৎচরি (thāgatsari) - congratulations

নহাকপু তরামনা ওকচরি। (nahākpu tarāmnā oksari) - You are welcome.

ঐহাক লাল্লে, ঙাকপিয়। (aihāk lālle, ngākpiyu) - I am sorry.

অফবা অনৌবা চহি ওইবীয়ু! (aphabā anaubā sahi oibīyu) - Happy New Year!

Note: Meitei uses two scripts: Eastern Nagari (the one used here) and Meiteilon. Most old literature and official works were done in the Eastern Nagari script until a few decades back when radical nationalist movements in Manipur led to the rise of the indigenous Meiteilon script.

The current Meiteilon script is a reconstruction of the original as it did not accomodate some of the sounds present in the language. The Eastern Nagari (formerly known as the Bengali-Assamese script) is still used in Bangladesh. In India, it is slowly being replaced by the Meitei script.

I'll be using the Eastern Nagari script as I'm more acquainted with it and this is the script used in the app too.