Jamaican Patois · St. Andrew

Mawnin.

Good morning.

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maa-nin
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St. Andrew, Blue Mountain foothills

The greeting carries the “good” on its own — context supplies it rather than a spoken word.

Patois is a language in its own right, with grammar that is not English grammar. The meaning above is how a speaker would use this phrase, not a word-for-word translation.

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