Jamaican Phrases Part 1
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- čas přidán 21. 12. 2020
- The Jamaican language is constantly attracting great interest from people craving a taste of our culture, but what is perhaps most intriguing about patois is the many sayings and expressions we use.
At times, some of these phrases can be difficult to translate into English ,and an outsider may struggle to find meaning.
This video contains some phrases that only a real Jamaican would understand.
hope you enjoy😉
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I’m not a Jamaican so this very helpful as I use it to speak a little patwah to my associates at work. They laugh but give me an A for effort. 😁🇯🇲👍🏾
Patois
The joke is E for effort. Not A.
Stop this
Fiyyyahhhh 🔥
Hush taw.
I’m Igbo and I’m amazed to see a few Igbo words that survived in Jamaica. Igbo slaves from Nigeria were among the top 3 slaves in Jamaica and some Igbo words such as ‘Dey’/‘di’ (for eg in Igbo Chi di = God dey/God exists, Jamaica di mma = Jamaica dey good etc), unu (you in plural form, still the original word in Igbo, Unu di mma = unu/una dey good/ok), soso, etc. The phrase in Patois red ibo, later corrupted to red bone, comes from the significant number of light skinned Igbo slaves back during slavery originally used to refer to light skinned Igbo slaves but today is used to refer to a light skinned black person in general. In Igboland today, they have the highest number of light skinned black people compared to other tribes of Nigeria. Obia man in Patois may have come from the Igbo word ‘dibia’ for sorcery priest or the Akan word, ‘obeah’. One love my people.
light skinned people are oftentimes referred to as Redibo
It is nice to know the origin of this word
Correct same with the Yoruba. Yoruba is heavily influenced in Jamaican culture 💯
My Nigerian coworkers were speaking and I was like. Huh? How is it that I can understand you? 😂😂
LOL that scenario with the Rastafarian at the restaurant really got me!
Me love Jamaica Language I m Haitian Yuh zimi.🤗
Big up yuhself
Love All mi ancestors ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I am a Trini and understood everything but that’s because I listened to so much reggae and dancehall growing up
can't stop learning.. much love from uganda
Y u need dis? U african brothas speak perfectly patwa arready boii! 😁
@@gameon2000 hahaha yah we do but learning neva ends😂
@@gameon2000 Not perfect Jamaican Patois which is a language in its own and nothing is wrong in learning it
@@Den-gz4yo Wagwan blud! 🤣
Can a Mexican American learn this too?
In Cameroon pidgin, we have the word "ashia" which has the exact meaning as "hush yaw" in Jamaican patois
All of these are just derivations of english idioms so yeah we do understand them just fine. You just have to understand the simplification of the language and then the intent is immediately obvous.
I learnt something and I'm Jamaican🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲. This funny 😄😄😄. Good stuff 👍🏾
Same. Some new phrases start since I left, but that's like every language --new words and phrases every year or so
Respect for this lovely country, grom PANAMÁ 🇵🇦
My grandmother love this one, "chicken merry hawk deh near." Always did a get up inna some type a trouble as a child. Is a good while since I hear half dem phrase deh weh yu did a explain. Deh ya foreign fi pilot school. Soon reach back a JA. Miss it bad.
Bless up 👊🏽
one of the dopest out there.. the language, and the man. love patwah, scottish accent, cajun accent, creole, portugese.. trying to master them all. thanks for everything bro. much love from philadelphia. 🤙
😂😂😂😂 this was so funny and well presented. 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 . Good job. Loved it
I’m a English learner and l love Jamaica 🇯🇲 accent 😌😍
Get outta hear u not Jamaican
@@deviouslymadeKP and who is you to claim this space for your own, boy?
@@jodawgsup Ngl that was a violation
Jamaican Patois is an English-based creole language, do your research or get flamed
Lol trouble ded deh😎👍
Lol that's a fact.
There doesn't seem to be any caption provided for the post. Some Jamaican deaf people who need to learn
Tevin, great talent!
You have really brought your character to an idealized world in this video.
You are 'to the fore' Sir!
Being a Jamaican and understand our Creole and phrases, I must say it is best I have heard in a mighty long while.
It was captivating and very well executed!!
Great performance, I really love it!
Keep on keeping on... Beyond the sky's the limit!
Nuff Love from Trelawny.
Thank you kindly
Yes he did it well... anybody can understand him and plus he still spoke the Jamaican patois with an heavy accent.
Thanks for sharing. Watching you from Ghana 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
Love this! Keep up the great work bro.
When i was like 7 or 8 bavk in 1988 my older cousin jake listened too dancehall like crazy and used to call me Nyammy Ranking he said cause I eat up all the food lol
Love your videos. You shou put subtitles all the time so its easier to try to understand even if its not the translation but the words in jamaican
This guy is actually an amazing CZcamsr. Completely underrated. If there’s anyone who dislikes his videos, I’ll be knocking on your door. Yuh Zimi?
😎😎... Nuh fear di patwah boss is here!😂😂😂. Excellent Job.
Thank you
Am Russian &I haven't gotten nothing , but I do like ur zest , inspiration & fun .
The GTA IV vibe I get from this comment is too much to handle
I used to work with a Jamaican guy. He taught me some words and we had our boss thinking bombaclaut boti boy meant "good man" for months. Good times. (Sorry if it's spelled wrong, he taught me how to say it, not how to spell it.)
Great stuff, Tevin! Blessings and big up from Trinbago!
🤣🤣.....OMG this is so cool and funny!!! ❤ I love the humor that comes with every translation. Doing an excellent job Bro, keep it up💯
Am glad you enjoyed it
Big love from Portugal, yuh zimi
I love this language
I'm Jamaican so I easily understanded.
This is fun to listen 😂😂😂 the philopino here in the Cayman island love our patwah. Big up bro bro
Respect bro
Def not remembering all of this but mi appreciate di video 🇯🇲🇯🇲
This was so good! Thank you
Wow I’m young and watching this im learning new words
Hey Mr cool! Always bubbly
Great vid Mi Brudda !
Thank you brudren I’m Tyriing to learn my culture
I enjoyed it Tev!
I'm happy you did.
Fiyyaah fi dat !!
Lol I can't stop watching this. I enjoyed this.
Great content! 🎉
Thank you very much 💯
4:55 He got the same reaction as me when I'm struggling with something 😂😂
Awesome 👍 Give Thanks !!
Love it !
Enjoyed the content brov... Keep it up
Thank you nuf respect
Good stuff. Yu Zimi is one of those younger generation phrase. I love Patwah, but it's changing. Some of the words used back in my early years ( 60's and 70's ), have changed, or not known by younger generations. Mi luv patwah bad, a kulcha weh we afi ole ahn pan.
Yes. Language evolves.
Yuh zimi has been around for a long while, unless you in your 90's that is
@@Den-gz4yo Mi respectfully disagree, but a nuh nutton. new generation patwah a still patwah. Mi a fifty ad.
give thanks ..Yuzimi
Real overstand
Jah jah...funny but interesting inna wi own way...
I love this lol
Now I understand the boat and the ship…😀😀
I really enjoy this. Your patois is so sweet and nice... not ranga ranga, lol. I kinna made that up. 😂
Big up yuh self genna
Another ball knocked out the park Tev 😎
Thank you
I’m not Jamaican, I’m Saint Lucian and I understood every phrase lol. Maybe it’s because we watch a lot of Jamaican stuff over here.
True, also listen a lot of Jamaican music
Yuh zimi!
Great content bro
Thank you.
I’m of Jamaican descent I just want to learn how to speak Jamaican and become fluent in it
My favourite one is "wham tuna?" I love how, in English, it sounds like "what happened to the tuna" but in Jamaican it means "what's wrong with you?" Very intriguing language!
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TUNA? I SAS HUNGRY TOO, YOU SEE ME? IM RIGHT HERE, IM NOT INVISIBLE MAN! Lol kills me every time!
Whaam toonu is a contraction of 'what happen to oonoo.' Oonoo is you in the plural form. Oonoo is most likely a word from a west African language that means you.
@@Nyammings oh wow, thank you!! Are you from the yard, as they say? Thanks again
Yes. I'm from yaad.
@@Nyammings blessed love, my girl. Jah Jah bless you widda long life and nuff picknie.
@@Nyammings it’s not oonoo it’s unuh, uno or unu
My Kingstonian friends used to say a "bombaat", a mild version of bumbaclot or "blow-wow" for blouse and skirt 😂
Good Job!
I'm Jamaican forever
Yh man ah proppa ting dis my yoot seen 😂🤜🏾🇯🇲
Everybody loves Canada to you should go there okay!🚗🇨🇦
A fire pon dah...cah cook pork in a rasta man pot😂😂😂
Lol
Lool really enjoyed this...rasta nuh eat pork
Lol
Like eeeen!!
good slang ❤
I hope you keep making videos
🏝
BOMBOOOCLAAAAT
Irie!)))
Big up
Nice
best accent ever after irish and scottish :D
So funny :-)
Yuh Zimi 🇯🇲
❤️🇯🇲
New subscriber here I’m going trelawny tomorrow man I’m definitely gonna ask a chef man to run a me a boat 👌🇯🇲
BOMBOCLAAT
Bless up mi breddah
Love unu!!
"Trouble deh deh" = "Knee and jize lurking". Thank you for that, I am much enlightened in the Jamaican language! :) Seriously though most badass accent of all tyem knoe what em seeyin?
i'm here because badman from gta 4
Me good man blesyn
Wish i was a patwa
Mi name a simigo. We yuh seh
I'm American, born in NYC, so:
#1 was easy to understand.
#2 is also easy.
#3 i would have made the same mistake
#4 context clues is key for this phrase.
#5 all right. I can dig that one. I almost mistook it for "run about"
well me a jamaican n mi learn somn new, neva heard of run a boat inna mi life
Your a blood clot Mon INI one love 🥰
I love it l want to lean it
Yuh cya
Can't wait to marry my Jamaican King!❤
If you do any more videos please make sure to add sub titles that will be really good like how you add fonts to the titles of speech
I'm jamaican 😆🇯🇲🤗
Mi yaard cousins have so many unique sayings…🇸🇽
I didn't not know the phrase "run a boat" and I am a born Jamaican. Lol
Its a westside slang i guess
I never heard hush yaw used that way
@@trapmuzik6708 how have you heard it used?
@@nikkinicole5216 Which west side? Its all over Jamaica and im from the east, run a boat has been used for how long now. You guys must have been brought up twanging like Americans
@@trapmuzik6708 Are you even Jamaican? Americans hear hush and think it means to shut up and yaw is a Jamaican word, thus hush yah is a Jamaican sentence for showing sympathy
You sound like the guy in the audio used for that Jamaican Patois breakdown video by the white guy
Not me though
Nah that’s how I got to this vid 😭😭😭💀
Ì hat but hush yah!
In Sierra Leone we say “ osh ya “ = hush yaw
MI undastan, YUH ZIMI😂
😂
Huge Thanks but I wish you used subtitles so that I can get you very well