Jamaican Phrases Part 1 

I am a Trini and understood everything but that’s because I listened to so much reggae and dancehall growing 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

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. 😁🇯🇲👍🏾

We say hush yay in Sierra Leone for the same meaning like you say in Jamaica too 🇸🇱❤️

Me love Jamaica Language I m Haitian Yuh zimi.🤗

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 👊🏽

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

I'm UK born and raised of Clarendon born parents. Patois literally is my mother language, but having never grown up nor lived on the island there are some things I miss like: - ' Yuh Zimi', I thought it was 'Yuh see mi' - Still meaning of course if you understand me. 'Run a boat' - is something I have NEVER heard before. People should understand that all langauages change over a period of time. The Patois I grew up with in England was the version from the 1950s and 1960s. My parents came to England as part of the Windrush generation. I hold Jamaican Patois close to me because despite never growing up in Jamaica, Patois actually defines me as a Jamaican. Even more so, these past years because I now live in the Netherlands where there are very few people who actually speak Patois. Nice video!!

Respect for this lovely country, grom PANAMÁ 🇵🇦

Big love from Portugal, yuh zimi

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.

I’m a English learner and l love Jamaica 🇯🇲 accent 😌😍

I love traveling to Jamaica 🇯🇲 Y'all showed so much love each time I'm there. Thank you! I'll be back. Yeah Mon 😊

😂😂😂😂 this was so funny and well presented. 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 . Good job. Loved it

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.

I learnt something and I'm Jamaican🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲. This funny 😄😄😄. Good stuff 👍🏾

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 RU-vidr. Completely underrated. If there’s anyone who dislikes his videos, I’ll be knocking on your door. Yuh Zimi?

Thanks for sharing. Watching you from Ghana 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭

Am Russian &I haven't gotten nothing , but I do like ur zest , inspiration & fun .

This is fun to listen 😂😂😂 the philopino here in the Cayman island love our patwah. Big up bro bro

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.)

🤣🤣.....OMG this is so cool and funny!!! ❤ I love the humor that comes with every translation. Doing an excellent job Bro, keep it up💯

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.

Lol trouble ded deh😎👍

This was a good learning experience and HELLA(Bay Area for very) funny 😆 Thanks and look forward to the next episode, i know there are many many more 🇯🇲 phrases. Love from a whiteboy nicknamed Jamaican from NorCal 🤙🏼

Yowww...prappa sinting dat yout...up. Jamdung mi bawn. Respek!

Out of many…ONE PEOPLE❤️💛☘️

😎😎... Nuh fear di patwah boss is here!😂😂😂. Excellent Job.

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.

Yuh feget “Tan tuddy ah eeh sah.” Ahrite - likkle more. 🥰

Great stuff, Tevin! Blessings and big up from Trinbago!

Love this! Keep up the great work bro.

Almost all of these, or most of them, are identical to the Krio we speak in Sierra Leone - at least the first three examples given here. My Love it, still

Very helpful BossMan! Respect! 😃 👊

I am Trinidadian and understood very clearly.

A useful phrase for the visiting cannabis enthusiasts would be "if it no nuff, me no wanti!" I was given this advice, and can say that it had immediate effects. ❤😂

If you're from the West Indies you'll understand everything they say because we all speak patwah only thing about the phases they have different meanings but I understand everything a Jamaican says he said you zimi we say you si me meaning you understand me

Wow I’m young and watching this im learning new words

Lol I can't stop watching this. I enjoyed this.

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!

What is “bringle” and what does it mean

A fire pon dah...cah cook pork in a rasta man pot😂😂😂

Def not remembering all of this but mi appreciate di video 🇯🇲🇯🇲

I'm Jamaican so I easily understanded.

Mi yaard cousins have so many unique sayings…🇸🇽

This is what we need from Jamaica. Watching all the way from Vanuatu

Favorite "Put some clothes pan da agument deh"😅

This was so good! Thank you

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"

Thanks for the education. Some a demde phrase mi neva know masa 😂

Is Yuh Zimi the same as Seen? I recall Peter Tosh used to end a lot of sentences with “Seen?”

give thanks ..Yuzimi

How mi neva know fence up yuh agiment. My a bawn jcan!

My Kingstonian friends used to say a "bombaat", a mild version of bumbaclot or "blow-wow" for blouse and skirt 😂

You sound like the guy in the audio used for that Jamaican Patois breakdown video by the white guy

Jah jah...funny but interesting inna wi own way...

We're the only set of people who give away everything. Others keep there but exposed ours

I’m loving it!!❤

Thank you brudren I’m Tyriing to learn my culture

I really enjoy this. Your patois is so sweet and nice... not ranga ranga, lol. I kinna made that up. 😂

Bruh is goed dat je die ondertiteling optie uit hebt gedaan anders zou me tellie een error krijgen 😂. One of the most beautiful english dialect on earth tho!! Mi like it alot. ❤

People who grew up in Montserrat, W.I fully comprehend 99 per cent of Jamaican Patois. Similar patois spoken there, of course, ‘the Queens English’ is spoken by all as it is taught from A B C classes. Also, having Jamaican friends help too. OFCOURSE, ‘proper English’ is taught to ALL CARIBBEAN CHILDREN, every Island has their own form of Patois though.

Hey Mr cool! Always bubbly

Well said. Tan todi! Yu mek mi a pap up fi reel.

Everybody loves Canada to you should go there okay!🚗🇨🇦

Wagwan. Much love from 🇩🇪 😂

"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?

4:55 He got the same reaction as me when I'm struggling with something 😂😂

Irieeeee :) do a video with musical terms in Jamaican

Thank you very much 💯

Deh deh has it origin in West Africa. Used in most of the Anglo Caribbean

Real overstand

Yeah, meh zimi. Big up!

I enjoyed it Tev!

Thank you, Tevin.

Thank you very much

I’m of Jamaican descent I just want to learn how to speak Jamaican and become fluent in it

I'm Jamaican but heard so many of these,phrases

u zimi...lol well said mi general..u zimi

Love your program, but I thought 'Run boat' was about a group of brethren at home (pon di corner) that have nothing to eat, put all their resources together and prepare a meal which usually include some 'cart wheel' dumplin.

Now I understand the boat and the ship…😀😀

Huge Thanks but I wish you used subtitles so that I can get you very well

Another ball knocked out the park Tev 😎

Fence up your argument is out of this world funny😅😅😅

Enjoyed the content brov... Keep it up

Love your show eventhough some of the slangs are New to me, Love it anyway however the word we call Patwah, the way you spelt it is incorrect, the correct spelling is Patois.

Some of these terms are recent arrivals ..they wasn't around 50 years ago.

Yh man ah proppa ting dis my yoot seen 😂🤜🏾🇯🇲

Bwoy, mi glad mi deh yah tidey enuh

Lool really enjoyed this...rasta nuh eat pork

New subscriber here I’m going trelawny tomorrow man I’m definitely gonna ask a chef man to run a me a boat 👌🇯🇲

I cannot understand without subtitles! 😂😂some of the phrasing i get but it flows so fast dem😅

Yuh knoh seh yuh too freh freh& nuff.

Fiyyaah fi dat !!

Awesome 👍 Give Thanks !!

So yuh zimi, and seen' are in the same context?

Great content! 🎉

Out of many one people 🖤💚💛