Zulu Lesson Dust

Is dusting a form of physical exercise, like toning arms? Maybe not. Dust is u-thu-li in Zulu. You say the first part like Uber, the second like took and the last part like lick.

Try and wash your car as often as possible otherwise, it will accumulate dust and someone will write WASH ME PLEASE on the windscreen. By the way, it’s no joke. Touching someone’s property without permission is burglary.

Dust on the furniture. How many movies have you seen where the owner of the house runs a finger on a piece of furniture, looks at the dust on it and gives the maid a warning look? I use old vests and T-shirts to dust things around here.

ENGLISH	ZULU
Dust to Dust (pastors to dead people).	Uthuli o-thulini.
Dust everywhere.	Uthuli yonke indawo.
Wipe dust off the table.	Susa uthuli etafuleni.
White clothes don’t like dust.	Izingubo ezimhlophe azithandi u-thuli.
Trouble started.	Kwa-shunqa u-thuli.
Dust has settled (a compromised has been reached).	Uthuli luphelile.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.