How are you? in Twi. Pronounced roughly eh-teh sen.
The standard reply is bɔkɔɔ — fine, cool, all good.
Greeting before you say anything else is not optional in Ghana. Walking into a shop, an office or someone’s compound and going straight to your question is genuinely rude, and it is very easy to do by accident.
Greet the security man. Greet the trader. Greet the person at the next desk. It costs nothing and it changes every interaction that follows.
In Ga: te oyɔɔ tɛŋŋ?