| Always | Kila mara |
| I will never do this again! | Nitakuwa mwaminifu kwako kila wakati |
| Never | Musateh |
| We never said that! | Hatukuwahi kusema hivyo! |
| Now | Sasa |
| We have to leave now! | Lazima tuondoke sasa! |
| Sometimes | Mara nyingine |
| It works sometimes | Inafanya kazi wakati mwingine |
| From time to time | Mara kwa mara |
| From time to time I eat Jollof rice | Mara kwa mara mimi hula wali |
| Late | Marehemu |
| Why are you late? | Kwa nini umechelewa? |
| Later | Baadae |
| The bus will come much later | Basi itakuja baadaye sana |
| Early | Mapema |
| You should try to come home early | Unapaswa kujaribu kurudi nyumbani mapema |
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African Languages on Mofeko
West Africa- Ìgbò - Wolof - Yorùbá |
East Africa- Chichewa (Nyanja) - Kinyarwanda (Ikinyarwanda) - Kiswahili |
Central Africa- Chokwe (Wuchokwe) - Ibinda (Fiote) - Kikongo - Lingala - Tshiluba |
Southern Africa- Malagasy - Naro (Senaro) - Nyaneka-Humbi - Sekaukau - Setswana (Tswana) - Shona (chiShona) - Umbundu (South Mbundu) - IsiXhosa (Xhosa) - IsiZulu (Zulu) |