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Days of the week in Kinyarwanda

What day is today?	Uyu munsi ni uwuhe?
Monday	Kuwa mbere
Tuesday	Kuwa kabiri
Wednesday	Kuwa gatatu
Thursday	Kuwa kane
Friday	Kuwa gatanu
Saturday	Kuwa gatandatu
Sunday	Ku cyumweru

How to describe weeks

This week	Muri iki cyumweru
I have exams on Friday this week	Mfite ikizamini kuwa gatanu w'iki cyumweru
Next week	Icyumweru gitaha
I will return next week Saturday	Nzagaruka icyumweru gitaha ku wa gatandatu
Last week	Icyumweru gishize
She went shopping last week Monday	Yagiye guhaha mu cyumweru gishize ku wa mbere

A sample sentence

I need to travel to Nairobi on Tuesday because I have another flight on the same day and I would arrive in South Africa on the following Wednesday	Nkeneye kujya i Nairobi ku wa kabiri kuko mfite indi ndege uwo munsi, ubwo nzagera muri Afrika y'Epfo ku wa gatatu ukurikira

Learn Kinyarwanda

Greetings & Introductions
How to greet and introduce yourself in Kinyarwanda

Family
How can you describe your family in Kinyarwanda?

Numbers
How to count in Kinyarwanda

Days of the week
How to say days of the week in Kinyarwanda

Months of the year
How to say months of the year in Kinyarwanda

Time Concepts
How say early, late, always and other concepts in Kinyarwanda

Question Words
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? How Much?

Traveling
Need to get to travel somewhere? Learn how to do it in Kinyarwanda

Shopping
Let's go shopping and see how to buy items in Kinyarwanda

Important Verbs
To be, To Have, To Do, To Say, To Go, To Know, To Want, To Can & To Use

Media
List of music, dances and movies in Kinyarwanda

Phrases
Extra phrases in Kinyarwanda that may be handy

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