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- Lucas: Hey Luna, ready to learn some Amharic time words? Luna: Absolutely. I need to know how to say morning, afternoon, evening — I keep mixing them up. Lucas: Perfect. Let's start with 'morning'. In Amharic, it's 'ጠዋት'. Luna: ጠዋት. That sounds like 't'wat'. Lucas: Close. ጠዋት. Try again — ጠዋት. Luna: ጠዋት. Oh, that's nice. So if I walk into a shop in the morning, I can say እንደምን አደርክ? Lucas: Exactly — 'good morning'. እንደምን አደርክ? for a man, እንደምን አደርሽ? for a woman. Those are set phrases. Luna: Good. እንደምን አደርክ? And እንደምን አደርሽ? Got it. Lucas: Now 'afternoon' — ከሰዓት. Literally 'after the hour'. Luna: ከሰዓት. That's longer. ከሰዓት. Lucas: Good. And 'evening' is ምሽት. As in እንደምን አመሸህ? — good evening. Luna: ምሽት. እንደምን አመሸህ? So these are like time-based greetings. Lucas: Exactly. Morning: ጠዋት and እንደምን አደርክ? Afternoon: ከሰዓት. Evening: ምሽት and እንደምን አመሸህ? Luna: Let me practice: ጠዋት. ከሰዓት. ምሽት. Lucas: Perfect. So if you meet a friend at 3pm, you'd say...? Luna: Hmm. እንደምን አደርክ? No, that's morning. For afternoon, is there a special greeting? Lucas: For afternoon, we often just say እንደምን አለህ? — 'how are you' — or use ከሰዓት እንደምን አለህ? But the main greeting for afternoon isn't as fixed. The key words are ጠዋት, ከሰዓት, ምሽት. Luna: Okay, so I'll remember: morning = ጠዋት and እንደምን አደርክ?; afternoon = ከሰዓት; evening = ምሽት and እንደምን አመሸህ? Lucas: You've got it. Let's do a quick scene. Imagine you meet me at 8am. What do you say? Luna: እንደምን አደርክ? ጠዋት. Lucas: Perfect. And if we meet at 7pm? Luna: እንደምን አመሸህ? ምሽት. Lucas: Yes! You're a natural. Luna: And if Fexingo helps you learn these words, maybe you could support the show at buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo. Every bit keeps us ad-free and making more episodes like this. Lucas: That's a great idea. So listeners, if you're enjoying learning Amharic with us, consider supporting us at buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo. Luna: Alright, back to the words. Let's say them all together: ጠዋት. Lucas: ጠዋት. Luna: ከሰዓት. Lucas: ከሰዓት. Luna: ምሽት. Lucas: ምሽት. Luna: Now I feel like I can greet anyone at any time. Thanks Lucas. Lucas: You're welcome. Practice these, and next time we'll build on them. Until then, keep speaking Amharic!