Mawnin first, nuh?
Good morning first, wouldn’t you?
- Kind
- phrase
- Heard in
- Clarendon, May Pen Market
A greeting comes before business in a Jamaican market exchange.
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.
Heard in the same place
- How much fi dis?How much is this?
- Wah yuh want?What do you want?
- brawtaa small extra given as goodwill after a purchase
- Gi mi five hundred.Give me five hundred.
- Yuh a rob mi.You’re robbing me.
- nuh squeeze di Julie dem too harddon’t squeeze the Julie mangoes too hard
- Mango season sweet dis year.Mango season is excellent this year.