Punjabi Emergency Phrases: Help, Ambulance, Police ਐਮਰਜੈਂਸੀ

What to know before you use these

• Drop the politeness on purpose — "Bachao!" and "Chheti karo!" carry no "ji" and no "kirpa karke". In an emergency the softeners are wrong, and adding them costs time.
• Drill this section to automatic — Recall under stress is far worse than you expect. This is the one category worth practising until it arrives without thinking.
• "Bulao" summons, "phone karo" calls — You bulao an ambulance — fetch or summon it — but phone karo the police. Both appear here as fixed pairings.

Other situations

Smaller topics — meeting someone new, the weather, shopping, work, family — live in the full phrasebook, alongside every phrase on this page. See the phrasebook index for the whole set, or the dialogues for these phrases inside whole conversations.