Jamaican Patois · Westmoreland
Dat good or bad?
Is that good or bad?
- Kind
- phrase
- Heard in
- Westmoreland, Negril
Patois is a language in its own right, with grammar that is not English grammar. The meaning above is how the conversation uses this phrase, not a word-for-word translation. The Patwa is a draft still awaiting review by Jamaican speakers.
Heard in the same place
- Di sunset nice.The sunset is beautiful.
- Yuh reach jus in time.You arrived just in time.
- Tek yuh picture, nuh problem.Take your picture, no problem.
- Mek mi get mi phone out.Let me get my phone out.
- Bwoy.Wow.
- Mi nah pretend seh mi have di answer.I won’t pretend I have the answer.
- Di work realThe work is real