Learn Kimbundu
Learn Kimbundu
A course in short units. Start at the beginning, or go straight to what you need.
Before the grammar
Read Kimbundu aloud, greet someone, and count. None of this needs grammar.
Every letter Kimbundu uses, and the sound it stands for.
Older printed Kimbundu writes ri- and nh- where the standard now writes di- and ny-.
How to greet someone, thank them, and say goodbye.
The 65 concepts every language can express, each one in Kimbundu.
The numbers one to ten, counted on their own.
Nouns and their classes
The single biggest idea in the language, taught as one idea.
What a noun class is, and why it decides the rest of the sentence.
Classes 1 and 2: mu- in the singular, a- in the plural.
Kimbundu does not use a verb for “to be” in the present.
Holding a sentence together
Agreement, possession, counting things, and asking questions.
Verbs
Enough verb to ask for things and say what happened.
The 1889 grammar lessons
Ten lessons read directly from the earliest published grammar of the language, while the course above is written.
Browse the noun classes
Every dictionary entry grouped by its class, with the prefix pair for each.