Jamaican Patois · Westmoreland

Di sunset nice.

The sunset is beautiful.

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di sun-set nais
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Westmoreland, Negril

“Nice” carries real praise in Jamaican — it affirms something is genuinely good.

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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