Haitian Creole: How do you say promote? and How do you say "expect" in creole and what does temwen mean?

1.Promote – pwomote, bay jarèt, jarete, bay piston, or pistonnen

egzanp: Lè misye te nan lekòl medsin tout moun nan katye a te ba l bon jarèt paske yo te konnen li ta pral itil yo yon jou.

2. Temwen – witness

a. Mwen se yon temwen – I am a witness.

b. Ou dwe sèvi m temwen.

You must serve as a witness to me.

Be my witness

c. Se pou Bondye sèvi n temwen … – May God be a witness …

d. Yo te mande m sèvi kòm temwen … - They asked me to be a witness to …..

3. Expect – atann (pronominal verb)

e. Mwen te atann mwen a sa. – I was expecting this.

f. Mwen pa’t atann mwen a sa. – I was not expecting this.

g. Nou pa’t atann nou a sa ditou. – We were not expecting that at all.

h. Nou tout te chita ansanm enpi li parèt sou nou sanzatann (san-z-atann).

We were all sitting together and she showed up unexpectedly.

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