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Bonjou tout moun! Kouman nou ye? M'espere tout bagay anfòm.
How do you say the words truly or Really in Haitian Creole?
Vrèman → truly
Reyèlman → really
Reyèlman vre → truly, really
tout bon → adv: really, truly, genuinely; adj: true, real
tout bon vre → adv: really, truly, genuinely; adj:real, true
pou debon (or pou tout bon) → (from French Pour de bon) for real, really
1. Sa se yon zanmi tout bon.
This is a real friend.
1. Sa se yon zanmi tout bon.
This is a real friend.
Is it true?
3. Men wi se tout bon!
Of course it's true!
4. Eske li malad tout bon?
Is she really sick?
5. Eske ou renmen'm tout bon?
Do you really love me?
Eske li te di sa tout bon?
Did he really say that?
7. Sa rive tout bon vre.
Sa rive tout bon.
It really happened.
8. Eske se tout bon Beethoven te soud?
Is it true that Beethoven was deaf?
Pou debon (poudebon) or Pou tout bon (also used) → for real
9. Fwa sa a l'ale pou debon.
Fwa sa a l'ale pou tout bon.
This time he's gone for real.
This time he's really gone.
10. Se pou debon m'pale wi. (notice nuance in my voice b/c of the WI emphasis :)
Se pou tout bon m'pale wi.
I'm for real.
or
I'm not joking.
Se te tout pou jodi a. Mèsi anpil anpil. Pase yon bon jounen e orevwa.
Track: Sa Sa Ye la by Pokito and Jean P. JAM
Lyrics
Sa sa ye la? e e! what
is this?
Sa sa ye la? o o! what is this?
Ou vini lakay mwen you come to my home
Mwen byen resevwa’w I received you well
M te konnen te genyen lanmitye I thought there was
friendship
Bay tout kay la pou ou
Give the whole house to you
Fè’w santi ou se lafanmi make you feel like family
Epoutan ou vin pou kontwole however you came to control
things
Ou di se zanmi’m you say you're my friend
Tout chanm, tout lasal pou ou all bedrooms, all living rooms
at your disposal
E poutan anyen’w pa laverite however nothing of you is the
truth
Aprezan m’vin jennen now I’m in a bind
M’al frape nan pòt ou I go knock at your door
Ou, poutan, pran mwen
a kout pye you, however, kick me out
Ou di m p’ap sa pase you say I can’t come in
Pou jan m konnen For how I know
M fè byen pou ou I did good deeds for you
Sonje kou lè’m vin frape
nan pòt ou remember when I come knock at your door
Ede’m fè sa help me do this
Meprize scorned
Maltrete mistreated
Imilye humiliated
Gade sa’w fè look at what you did
Ou pa ta fè’m sa You should not have done this to me
Sa’k ta di sa who would have said that (or who knew?)
Pou jan’m goumen pou
ou I fought so much for you
M pa ta kwè sa I would not have believed it
Ou fè mwen sezi you surprise me
Se lèzòm That’s man (that's the human way)
Haitian Creole ↔ English Reference, Look up Haitian Creole and English Words
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