Jamaican Phrases Part 1
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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Me love Jamaica Language I m Haitian Yuh zimi.🤗
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Big up yuhself
@Kira-berry
3 ай бұрын
Love All mi ancestors ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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. 😁🇯🇲👍🏾
@dolofuture9749
2 жыл бұрын
Patois
@QuattroZack1
Жыл бұрын
The joke is E for effort. Not A.
@kwodgawdyinsm8632
Жыл бұрын
Stop this
@aaronblack9043
Жыл бұрын
Fiyyyahhhh 🔥
@DeinlieblingsEmre
Жыл бұрын
Hush taw.
In Cameroon pidgin, we have the word "ashia" which has the exact meaning as "hush yaw" in Jamaican patois
can't stop learning.. much love from uganda
@gameon2000
3 жыл бұрын
Y u need dis? U african brothas speak perfectly patwa arready boii! 😁
@rascaesar9025
3 жыл бұрын
@@gameon2000 hahaha yah we do but learning neva ends😂
@Den-gz4yo
6 ай бұрын
@@gameon2000 Not perfect Jamaican Patois which is a language in its own and nothing is wrong in learning it
@gameon2000
6 ай бұрын
@@Den-gz4yo Wagwan blud! 🤣
Respect for this lovely country, grom PANAMÁ 🇵🇦
LOL that scenario with the Rastafarian at the restaurant really got me!
I am a Trini and understood everything but that’s because I listened to so much reggae and dancehall growing up
I’m a English learner and l love Jamaica 🇯🇲 accent 😌😍
@deviouslymadeKP
2 жыл бұрын
Get outta hear u not Jamaican
@jodawgsup
Жыл бұрын
@@deviouslymadeKP and who is you to claim this space for your own, boy?
@natspats
Жыл бұрын
@@jodawgsup Ngl that was a violation
@danschneider3920
11 ай бұрын
Jamaican Patois is an English-based creole language, do your research or get flamed
I learnt something and I'm Jamaican🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲. This funny 😄😄😄. Good stuff 👍🏾
@jinggbangg
Жыл бұрын
Same. Some new phrases start since I left, but that's like every language --new words and phrases every year or so
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 👊🏽
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
Am Russian &I haven't gotten nothing , but I do like ur zest , inspiration & fun .
@ekathe85
2 жыл бұрын
The GTA IV vibe I get from this comment is too much to handle
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.
@annettegeorge577
6 күн бұрын
light skinned people are oftentimes referred to as Redibo
@annettegeorge577
6 күн бұрын
It is nice to know the origin of this word
Lol trouble ded deh😎👍
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Lol that's a fact.
@jamrockqueen9767
2 ай бұрын
There doesn't seem to be any caption provided for the post. Some Jamaican deaf people who need to learn
This guy is actually an amazing KZreadr. Completely underrated. If there’s anyone who dislikes his videos, I’ll be knocking on your door. Yuh Zimi?
I'm Jamaican so I easily understanded.
😂😂😂😂 this was so funny and well presented. 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 . Good job. Loved it
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.
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly
@Versiongurl
3 жыл бұрын
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 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
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.)
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. 🤙
I love this language
4:55 He got the same reaction as me when I'm struggling with something 😂😂
Love this! Keep up the great work bro.
give thanks ..Yuzimi
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.
@Nyammings
Жыл бұрын
Yes. Language evolves.
@Den-gz4yo
6 ай бұрын
Yuh zimi has been around for a long while, unless you in your 90's that is
@rthomas5986
6 ай бұрын
@@Den-gz4yo Mi respectfully disagree, but a nuh nutton. new generation patwah a still patwah. Mi a fifty ad.
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 is fun to listen 😂😂😂 the philopino here in the Cayman island love our patwah. Big up bro bro
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Respect bro
Great stuff, Tevin! Blessings and big up from Trinbago!
Awesome 👍 Give Thanks !!
🤣🤣.....OMG this is so cool and funny!!! ❤ I love the humor that comes with every translation. Doing an excellent job Bro, keep it up💯
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Am glad you enjoyed it
😎😎... Nuh fear di patwah boss is here!😂😂😂. Excellent Job.
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you
Thank you brudren I’m Tyriing to learn my culture
Big love from Portugal, yuh zimi
Wow I’m young and watching this im learning new words
This was so good! Thank you
Thank you very much 💯
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!
@Nyammings
Жыл бұрын
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.
@findtruth5329
Жыл бұрын
@@Nyammings oh wow, thank you!! Are you from the yard, as they say? Thanks again
@Nyammings
Жыл бұрын
Yes. I'm from yaad.
@findtruth5329
Жыл бұрын
@@Nyammings blessed love, my girl. Jah Jah bless you widda long life and nuff picknie.
@Coconutbabez
Жыл бұрын
@@Nyammings it’s not oonoo it’s unuh, uno or 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?
Love it !
Yh man ah proppa ting dis my yoot seen 😂🤜🏾🇯🇲
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.
@Den-gz4yo
6 ай бұрын
True, also listen a lot of Jamaican music
Def not remembering all of this but mi appreciate di video 🇯🇲🇯🇲
A fire pon dah...cah cook pork in a rasta man pot😂😂😂
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Lol
Fiyyaah fi dat !!
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.
Lol I can't stop watching this. I enjoyed this.
Now I understand the boat and the ship…😀😀
Great content! 🎉
Hey Mr cool! Always bubbly
I love this lol
Jah jah...funny but interesting inna wi own way...
Enjoyed the content brov... Keep it up
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you nuf respect
Real overstand
My Kingstonian friends used to say a "bombaat", a mild version of bumbaclot or "blow-wow" for blouse and skirt 😂
Great vid Mi Brudda !
I enjoyed it Tev!
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
I'm happy you did.
Bless up mi breddah
Everybody loves Canada to you should go there okay!🚗🇨🇦
I really enjoy this. Your patois is so sweet and nice... not ranga ranga, lol. I kinna made that up. 😂
Good Job!
I’m of Jamaican descent I just want to learn how to speak Jamaican and become fluent in it
good slang ❤
Nice
Great content bro
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
I'm Jamaican forever
Mi yaard cousins have so many unique sayings…🇸🇽
I hope you keep making videos
best accent ever after irish and scottish :D
Big up yuh self genna
i'm here because badman from gta 4
Irie!)))
well me a jamaican n mi learn somn new, neva heard of run a boat inna mi life
Big up
Another ball knocked out the park Tev 😎
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you
Lool really enjoyed this...rasta nuh eat pork
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Lol
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"
Yuh zimi!
Wish i was a patwa Mi name a simigo. We yuh seh
I love it l want to lean it
Жыл бұрын
Yuh cya
So funny :-)
New subscriber here I’m going trelawny tomorrow man I’m definitely gonna ask a chef man to run a me a boat 👌🇯🇲
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
Me good man blesyn
You sound like the guy in the audio used for that Jamaican Patois breakdown video by the white guy
@jamaicanpatwah5170
3 жыл бұрын
Not me though
@zizzle7839
3 жыл бұрын
Nah that’s how I got to this vid 😭😭😭💀
Huge Thanks but I wish you used subtitles so that I can get you very well
BOMBOOOCLAAAAT
❤️🇯🇲
You should put together a phrase book and sell it..
Ì hat but hush yah!
I'm jamaican 😆🇯🇲🤗
In Sierra Leone we say “ osh ya “ = hush yaw
I didn't not know the phrase "run a boat" and I am a born Jamaican. Lol
@nikkinicole5216
2 жыл бұрын
Its a westside slang i guess
@trapmuzik6708
Жыл бұрын
I never heard hush yaw used that way
@cultureducation
Жыл бұрын
@@trapmuzik6708 how have you heard it used?
@Den-gz4yo
6 ай бұрын
@@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
@Den-gz4yo
6 ай бұрын
@@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
Like eeeen!!
Canada is a good place to🇨🇦 you should go you you should go check it out🚗
BOMBOCLAAT
Your a blood clot Mon INI one love 🥰
Yuh Zimi 🇯🇲
Love unu!!
Do you offer a course? Or voice audio speaking just so I can listen to. I been married to my beautiful wife who is from Jamaica for 6 months I love her so much. She is having my child in 4 months and I want to do everything I can to be closer to her. Will you help me do this for her?