To catch feelings for someone. Catchile
Example
Ngizo catcha if this guy continues to be this good to me.
A hit song by the legendary Mandoza and it almost became the National Anthem but Sister Betina overtook it.
Example
Can you please play the Nkalakatha song.
A term Xhosa people use to refer to those small cellphones with no internet. Those phones you just use for calls and sms. They call it lepopotane in SePitori.
Example
Yho mntase I saw his tilili hidden in the spare wheel of his car. Caba he didn't want me to see that he uses it for his hoes.
How South Africans say “traffic lights” because “traffic lights” is too long and doesn’t sound futuristic enough.
Example
No one:
Passenger in a taxi: After robot, driver.
Cav is a South African slang expression used to say "check it out" or "take a look" or even "understand".
Example
Did you cav that car?
Cav this girl.
Do you cav what I mean?
A West African country known as the birthplace of voodoo, with historical kingdoms and growing cotton industry.
Example
We studied the ancient Kingdom of Dahomey in what is now modern Benin.
Kwaal is a slang term that means a problem or a conflict.
Example
Why does he have kwaal with him?
The ability to not stop yourself from indulging in minge (nyash).
Example
Mono is affected by Nyashilitis
Cherry is a Kasi term to refer to a girl/female. It can also be used to refer specifically to a girlfriend
Example
Ndikhumbula icherry yam ngoku.
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