Pakistani Pashto→English

Translate Pakistani Pashto to English the way locals mean it.

Pakistani Pashto speakers often wrap reassurance, urging, and apprehension in short particles and idioms that a textbook reader may take literally.

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What locals actually say

بس خیر دی، مه خفه کېږه

It’s okay, don’t worry about it.

بس خیر دی is a reassurance that the matter is fine or forgivable, not a literal statement that something is simply good.

راځه کنه، ناوخته کېږي

Come on, it’s getting late.

کنه is a familiar urging and softening particle, not a question asking for a yes-or-no answer.

خدای دې خیر کړي، دا خو ډېر خلک راغلي دي

Uh-oh, a lot of people have shown up.

خدای دې خیر کړي literally asks God to make things good, but in this construction it usually signals apprehension that something may go wrong.

دا خو ډېرې روپۍ دي، لږې یې راکمې کړه.

That’s too expensive. Knock a few rupees off.

روپۍ means rupees, a distinctly Pakistani money reference, while راکمې کړه is the colloquial bargaining construction for asking someone to lower a price.

چې پلچک ته ورسېدې، چپ لاس ته واوړه.

When you reach the culvert, turn left.

پلچک is a common Pakistani roadside term for a small culvert or bridge, and چپ لاس ته literally means toward the left hand, a familiar local way to give directions.

ډوډۍ دې خوړلې که لا نه؟

Have you eaten yet?

ډوډۍ خوړل literally means eating bread, but in Pakistani Pashto it is the everyday idiom for having a meal.

زما کشر ورور لا ویده دی، مه یې راویښوه.

My younger brother is still asleep, so don’t wake him.

کشر is the local kinship term for a younger sibling, and مه یې راویښوه uses the colloquial negative imperative with the object pronoun یې.

صاحب، دا کاغذونه به تر غرمې پورې تیار کړم.

Sir, I’ll have these papers ready by noon.

صاحب is the Urdu-derived respectful workplace address widely used in Pakistan, while به ... کړم marks a promised or intended future action.

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