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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

say in creole left to a new life

"left to a new life" as in 'someone has died and has left to a new life', 'someone is starting over', or 'someone was left behind and he/she must pick up the piece and start over'?

Ask me anything

Gade de jouda mezanmi what does it mean

Gade de jouda mezanmi
What curiosity!
What nosiness!
Such gossip!

Ask me anything

what time are you coming

What time are coming
A kilè w'ap vini?

Ask me anything

how do you pronounce choucoune?

choucoune, choukoun (shoo-koo-n)

Ask me anything

How do you say; I will bring it to you

I'll bring it to you.
Ma va pote li ba ou.(uncontracted)
M'va pote l ba w(contracted)
Ma pote l ba w. (contracted)

Ask me anything

"ONE PERSON SPEAK AT A TIME PLEASE"...? THANK YOU!!!

alafwa
at once
at the same time
synchronously


one at a time
youn alafwa
youn pa youn

One person at a time, please.
Yon moun alafwa tanpri.

One person may speak at a time please.
Yon moun ka pale alafwa tanpri

Happy Spring

Happy Spring (as in, 'Have a nice Spring season' I presume)

Pase yon bon sezon prentan.
Pase yon bon prentan.

Ask me anything

i got to get this girl off my back

Podyab ti fi a!

I got to get this girl off my back.
M bezwen wete ti fi sa a nan kòsaj mwen.
M bezwen wete ti fi sa a na kòlèt mwen.

to you

To you
Pou ou
a ou menm

PLEASE TRANSLATE NU PA PER ANYEN TO ENGLISH

Nou pa pè anyen.
We're not afraid of anything.

of course

Of course → natirèlman, men wi
But of course → Men wi

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

what do nwen mean

Did you mean mwen (I, me, my), lwen (far), or nwè (dark, very dark, soiled)?

how to say "These are the days of the week"?

These are the days of the week.
Sa yo se jou nan semèn nan.

how do i say where r you

There are many ways to say it. The followings are just some of them :)

Where are you?
Kote w?
Kote ou?
Kote ou ye?
Kote w ye?
Kote ou ye la?
Ki kote ou ye?
Kibò ou ye la?
Kote w fè la?

how do u say stubborn in creole?

stubborn → tèt di, tèti, malouk, tyak, chimerik