Andy, I stumbled on your videos last month when teaching my students about Hawai'i. I'm a Special Education teacher in El Paso, Texas and i love watching the Daily Pidgin now!! I'm not from the islands, but i've always been so interested in the culture over there! Much respect! I watch them during my break to relax and also learn some pidgin! My kids love to listen too! Mahalo Andy!
been living in Japan for almost 5 years now & dis is so da kine for my kauai girl soul. we goin move back oahu in 3 days and my poor kids (ages 12, 7 & 5) stay clueless cuz we stay slackin on da pidgin. deeze segments are their "homeschool" edumacation prep fo go home. mahalo plenty for da crack laughs. i gotta ony watch 1 at a time cuz i no like OD den no body goin know what i saying ovah hea. aaaaaloha!
When I first started at Kaimuki High School in small kid time, I asked "What bus do I take to get home?" Answer: "Da Bus" "Yeah, but WHAT bus?" "Da kine bus" "Yeah, but WHAT bus?" "Da kine ORANGE bus" LOL
Good da kine explanation...da kine replaces the obvious object/action in sentences between two people who are familiar with eachother and the circumstances.
Had that "Da Kine" conversation/lesson with my parents when visiting relatives in Hawaii. My little brother spilled his drink on the floor my aunty told us kids & cousins to go get Da Kine. Before she finished saying Da Kine my cousin automatically gave her towels to clean the spill. My mom laughed saying I looked totally clueless what my aunt said and that Da Kine was obviously meant the towel to clean up the spilled drink.
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This is the best explanation of it. The thing about "da kine" is there needs to be a shared history between the two people having a discussion, otherwise "da kine" needs to be clarified. Or sometimes it's a filler for when you can't immediately find the word for something on your mind. The other day I was coming back to Los Angeles from Hawaii and I had to go through a TSA check and I was talking the the agent about something I'd forgotten before I went to Honolulu and said to the agent, "Oh I don't know brah...I think I left it in da kine...ummm...you know....back up da mainland in Pasadena."
This is such an awesome channel! So Spanish is my second language, and da kine makes me think of "esa vaina" or for a person, "fulano", and there's still more it's used for it sounds like. Every language needs & has words like this. ❤
Here's a classic one at our house: hubby and I leaving da room at night. I go tellum, "Eh, please da kine da da kine" and he closes da light. Shaka, yeah?
Dat was one mean video at da end wit unko wit dea wea u steh??but calling da house fone...I do Dat to pepo...I jus so into wateva I like do at dere house....I tell dem wat bu u steh home??n dey tell me Lolo or wat??cuz I gotta remembah wat fone I call...gud stuff...Mahalo unko...
Lol surreal bc I gotta da kine to explain up hea in Houston. Brought back memories of childhood n home. Also watch Andy growing up, good ol’ dayz..We Original Hayn💯🤙🏽🙌🏽😎Aloha
Just learned about this phrase and it sounds so useful and I'm annoyed that we don't have an equivalent in English. I might try to teach it to the people I talk to honestly
I've watched this video more times than I care to admit. We just named our new pet bearded dragon Da Kine because we couldn't think of any other name so started calling her Da Kine, and well... it stuck. Heading to Hawaii next year! Make more videos! My family and I love them!
Maybe explain it that "DA KINE" is like a noun.....where "DA KINE" could be describing a person, place, or thing. And that it is like a common sense conversation between 2 people who can talk and understand each other's thoughts.
Bruddah Andy, aloha. Could you consider a video to explain the Eddie Would Go bumper stickers and TShirts.. I sort of know the story, but not full da kine. Lol. Mahalo. 🤘🏼
Hi Andy, U da Bess !!! I going live longer, cuz u make me laugh so much :) Question: I wanted to view all your videos in order, to make sure i don't miss any of them. But when i stay on youtube, da ohdah stay all kapakahi. I dunno how fo view um in ohdah. u know how? u can help me please? but if no can put um in ohdah, its alright. i still going watch um. da reruns is still supah funny ! i tell all my friends about your videos, and everyone LOVES IT ! Keep going, no stop, the world needs more Aloha.
+bobbie awana Sorry about that. My suggestion would be to go to RUclips.com/ToolnAroundHI and click on "Show More" and then "Next 100" and start from the bottom. Again, sorry eh.
Andy mahalo for all you do for us to make folks understand da kine Pidgin English we grew up with. I was fortunate as a kid on the Big Island of Hawaii to have my Uncle Kent Bowman (aka Senator K.K. Kaumanua) help me to tell the various children's stories which later in life I used in speeches with Toastmasters International. It is wonderful to see you carry on the tradition to the next higher level.
I stay in Indiana now, brah....I wen' marry one Haole girl from da mainland; she no like 'Da Kine', say she don't get it an' please stop....but I gotta stay listen to HER midwest Haole-Hoosier (da fu*k is a HOO-ZEE-EAR, I dunno) blah-blah talking bubbles kine stuff. I miss da aina of Hawaii...this is one foreign planet, and none of da buggahs can drive, braddah....they take right turns at 2mi/hr, as if they think one big cow is in da road just ahead; meanwhile, da Maz I drive is gonna rocket up an' over that slow Haole, because I stay doing da speed limit of 40....now I can see why da Indy 500 is all about LEF' TURNS, lol.....
"went" (past tense: travelled to, went). It can be a question....(Yu when go?) (Who when go?) "Did you go?" Or a statement....(He when go). (She when go). (Already when go.) (Da airplane when go.) (I when go...) "Went". He/She went,. I went. "I went to..." (I when go to da movies last weekend).
Oh my gosh, it can also mean, when used, followed with the word 'like' (In direct translation) "It happened as though...." = "Da kine when go like...." Or, "...When go like...." 🤦!
.."da kine" da kine proof na kanaka da kine "mind readers", yeah? Nānā, pay attention, or no communitalkin' no moa, 'cause took da wrong bus fo da baby lū'au. Never get dea..
Mean Andy. Da kine can mean anything. Das why pidgin English is awesome cuz, you say it anyway you like, spell anyway you like, and one word can be use in one conversation. Keep up the good work, mahaloz.
A movie where they kept using this term.. a bunch of teens and i can't remember it. Teens Hawaiian locals , one kid is a pot head and gets his girlfriend pregnant.. idk but my son and I thought it was actually called Dakine.. we laughed alot over how much they threw it in a sentence. Maybe the movie got lost in the Mandela effect 🤔 😁.. i could not find it and looked so long.
I hate to be vulgar, but I think "fuck" works similarly to this as well. At it's base level it means to have sex, but it's also used to express joy, anger, confusion, surprise so on and so forth until you get a sentence like, "these fucking fucks just fucked the fuckers." and unless you hear the tones and have some context surrounding the sentence it's tough to know if this is a good or bad thing... but you also know exactly what's going on at the same time.
Aloha Bruddah Andy from Eureka, CA.....I was kinda thinking that the phrase 'Da Kine' was a way of communicating an idea of what you know without having to find the right words to describe what you know.....I know it hurts my head now that I'm thinking about it.....But to tell you the truth all us kids KNEW what we were talking about back then.......Quick Question......have you ever cringed at reading the Pidgin Language as you actually read it?....I did because it always seemed like I was trying too hard to communitalk with it.......
+Lee Pittman Mahalo, and, yes, concerning the cringe factor. I'm working with someone now to try and put together a standard Pidgin spelling system. Not easy. We'll see how it goes.
Dude, i'm a black Fourteen year old kid who's been interested in Hawaii, it's culture and the people along with language for YEARS, i still probably don't even know 1% of it, but this explanation got me to understand it immediately even though i only watched it once. The drawback with the word is that you'd have to guess, so wouldn't it be easier to say something like "They're waiting for him" "Who is waiting for him" "Da kine at school" meaning his friend?
No the idea is that the person saying da kine is saying it to someone who knows or understands through context exactly what ds kinw is a reference to. Mexican American call it slang for shit. Imma go get the shit, i know you want some shit. Nah i dont want that shit, get me the new shit. Aight.
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This is THE best explanation of how we use "dakine" as we communatalk.
Andy, I stumbled on your videos last month when teaching my students about Hawai'i. I'm a Special Education teacher in El Paso, Texas and i love watching the Daily Pidgin now!! I'm not from the islands, but i've always been so interested in the culture over there! Much respect! I watch them during my break to relax and also learn some pidgin! My kids love to listen too! Mahalo Andy!
been living in Japan for almost 5 years now & dis is so da kine for my kauai girl soul. we goin move back oahu in 3 days and my poor kids (ages 12, 7 & 5) stay clueless cuz we stay slackin on da pidgin. deeze segments are their "homeschool" edumacation prep fo go home. mahalo plenty for da crack laughs. i gotta ony watch 1 at a time cuz i no like OD den no body goin know what i saying ovah hea. aaaaaloha!
When I first started at Kaimuki High School in small kid time, I asked "What bus do I take to get home?" Answer: "Da Bus" "Yeah, but WHAT bus?" "Da kine bus" "Yeah, but WHAT bus?" "Da kine ORANGE bus" LOL
Good da kine explanation...da kine replaces the obvious object/action in sentences between two people who are familiar with eachother and the circumstances.
+Alfred Pilialoha Well put. Mean da explanation.
Had that "Da Kine" conversation/lesson with my parents when visiting relatives in Hawaii. My little brother spilled his drink on the floor my aunty told us kids & cousins to go get Da Kine. Before she finished saying Da Kine my cousin automatically gave her towels to clean the spill. My mom laughed saying I looked totally clueless what my aunt said and that Da Kine was obviously meant the towel to clean up the spilled drink.
+MommyQueenie Classic use of Da Kine. Mahalo.
years ago I saw it on a menu describing ingredients for a hamburger 🤣🤣🤣
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Andy! I saw you in the 80s opening for the Beamer brothers. I enjoyed this video. Mahalo!
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I describe Da Kine as " A filler word describing the obvious "
This is the best explanation of it. The thing about "da kine" is there needs to be a shared history between the two people having a discussion, otherwise "da kine" needs to be clarified. Or sometimes it's a filler for when you can't immediately find the word for something on your mind. The other day I was coming back to Los Angeles from Hawaii and I had to go through a TSA check and I was talking the the agent about something I'd forgotten before I went to Honolulu and said to the agent, "Oh I don't know brah...I think I left it in da kine...ummm...you know....back up da mainland in Pasadena."
That's the best explanation of "da kine" I ever heard. Spot on. People always say it means "whatchamacallit" but that's misleading.
+Austin Casey Mahalo Austin and thanks for watching and spreading da work.
I live in Hawai'i ( still a newcomer) and definitely trying to grasp this. Mahalo nui loa for the explanation
Thank you. Very informative.
had fun watching this !! thanks Brah !!
This is such an awesome channel! So Spanish is my second language, and da kine makes me think of "esa vaina" or for a person, "fulano", and there's still more it's used for it sounds like. Every language needs & has words like this. ❤
this is hilarious and I don't know if there are any other Portuguese in this channel but think of coiso, coisa and coisar. it's a match! XD
Here's a classic one at our house: hubby and I leaving da room at night. I go tellum, "Eh, please da kine da da kine" and he closes da light. Shaka, yeah?
+Anuheaikauatuahine Classic. Tanks eh.
Dat was one mean video at da end wit unko wit dea wea u steh??but calling da house fone...I do Dat to pepo...I jus so into wateva I like do at dere house....I tell dem wat bu u steh home??n dey tell me Lolo or wat??cuz I gotta remembah wat fone I call...gud stuff...Mahalo unko...
Been on the big island for 7 months now..now I know when ppl ask me about Da Kine
Lol surreal bc I gotta da kine to explain up hea in Houston. Brought back memories of childhood n home. Also watch Andy growing up, good ol’ dayz..We Original Hayn💯🤙🏽🙌🏽😎Aloha
You are the best Andy Bumatai.....don't change a ting!
da kine is when you forget the word that you are trying to tell da guy that you tak'n to what you saying, right
Ya, can be laddat, too.
😃
...watchuma'call, ...da ting, ...
yu kno,...dat one......uh,...
*da* *kine*
I'm going to stumble on Da Kine but I no Da kine eventually will get it braddah. Da kine.
It's like saying "You don't need anymore details to know what I'm talking about".
you know 'em insie da "conteks"
Da kine is Da kine and that's Da kine.... That song explains it pretty well too. Love the show Andy.
+J Santos What song are you talking about?
+Andy Bumatai "Da Kine" by Darell Labrado. Not sure if spelled his name correctly.
Found you today i love this video i cant wait to watch them all already shared💌 Subbed✅ Liked👍and clicked the 🛎Mahalo🌺❤🤙
My niece cannot get ahold of da kind. “What are you talking about?” When I talk to her father my brother.
Like the line 👌💯👊
Whoa .. that's high level, indeed! ;>)
sq-do you speak hawaiian there?
THIS IS PERFECT, BAHAHAHA! don't forget laddat kine, hahahaha!
Just learned about this phrase and it sounds so useful and I'm annoyed that we don't have an equivalent in English. I might try to teach it to the people I talk to honestly
Da kine is da kine and thats da kine a song by Darrell Labrato🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
Now I FINALLY understand!
Yo Andy, I wen look at Daily Pidgin even before I wen look at Powerball numbers.
+Jared MacBride Oh wow. Now THAT'S high praise. Mahalo nui loa Jared.
I've watched this video more times than I care to admit. We just named our new pet bearded dragon Da Kine because we couldn't think of any other name so started calling her Da Kine, and well... it stuck. Heading to Hawaii next year! Make more videos! My family and I love them!
Great way to display the vertical video on da kine screen.
Love it
Maybe explain it that "DA KINE" is like a noun.....where "DA KINE" could be describing a person, place, or thing. And that it is like a common sense conversation between 2 people who can talk and understand each other's thoughts.
So helpful I loved this video!
Bruddah Andy, aloha. Could you consider a video to explain the Eddie Would Go bumper stickers and TShirts.. I sort of know the story, but not full da kine. Lol. Mahalo. 🤘🏼
+coolkayaker1 Okay, watch for it. Mahalo.
+Andy Bumatai thanks, Andy
You’re SO good. Laughing at this. You da kine. I recently moved to Kauai from Montana. Trying to learn learn learn! Mahalo Uncle
I swear I love this 😂 mahalo uncle
So it's like "smurf" for those of us who grew up in the 1980s.
Best way of describing da kine that worked for me is comparing it to the word "smurf".
Why you (and Alaska) got interstate signs on the freeways? 😅🤣
Aloha nui loa Andy......hey braddah you know dakine........cause i dunno thats why i here.......Mahalo.......
Hi Andy, U da Bess !!! I going live longer, cuz u make me laugh so much :)
Question: I wanted to view all your videos in order, to make sure i don't miss any of them.
But when i stay on youtube, da ohdah stay all kapakahi. I dunno how fo view um in ohdah. u know how? u can help me please?
but if no can put um in ohdah, its alright. i still going watch um. da reruns is still supah funny !
i tell all my friends about your videos, and everyone LOVES IT ! Keep going, no stop, the world needs more Aloha.
+bobbie awana Sorry about that. My suggestion would be to go to RUclips.com/ToolnAroundHI and click on "Show More" and then "Next 100" and start from the bottom. Again, sorry eh.
People on the main land be like whAAAAA?
saying "Da kine" reminds me of how filipinos say "yung ano..."
I call my son Da kine he’s my everything …❤️
I gon tro you won shaka wen watch da vidjow kine yoo toob braddah. yeah
Cannot believe this kind mento questions? They must not have grad from school!!!
You know “Da Kine”
What about the phrase come go stay?
"Come and stay here", or,
"Come, stay here now".
" Da kine", can refer to anything. A place; person; or a thing..
Hysterical😂. Glad your da kine more healthy now. Kick dat cansah down da kapakahi way👞
Supposed to be mysterious brah !? No make any kine. What brah !?
I was asked when I said "da kine" what kine
😁
Andy mahalo for all you do for us to make folks understand da kine Pidgin English we grew up with. I was fortunate as a kid on the Big Island of Hawaii to have my Uncle Kent Bowman (aka Senator K.K. Kaumanua) help me to tell the various children's stories which later in life I used in speeches with Toastmasters International. It is wonderful to see you carry on the tradition to the next higher level.
I stay in Indiana now, brah....I wen' marry one Haole girl from da mainland; she no like 'Da Kine', say she don't get it an' please stop....but I gotta stay listen to HER midwest Haole-Hoosier (da fu*k is a HOO-ZEE-EAR, I dunno) blah-blah talking bubbles kine stuff. I miss da aina of Hawaii...this is one foreign planet, and none of da buggahs can drive, braddah....they take right turns at 2mi/hr, as if they think one big cow is in da road just ahead; meanwhile, da Maz I drive is gonna rocket up an' over that slow Haole, because I stay doing da speed limit of 40....now I can see why da Indy 500 is all about LEF' TURNS, lol.....
Felecia carstensFelecia well why u go marry girl from Midwest out of all places your fault yea 🤣
Think I'm gonna stay away from da Kine eh? LOL... think of you're not sure don't.
When your name is dakine
Like 👍 the kine 💥👊
Its like jawn if the jawn was even more flexible
Eh, Andy. I thought I wen win da kine, but I woke up. So, da kine stay big eh now?
+Bad Tuna FYF
Can you teach on the phrase “When go?” My coworker uses that a lot.
"went"
(past tense: travelled to, went).
It can be a question....(Yu when go?)
(Who when go?)
"Did you go?"
Or a statement....(He when go).
(She when go). (Already when go.)
(Da airplane when go.) (I when go...)
"Went".
He/She went,. I went.
"I went to..."
(I when go to da movies last weekend).
Sunny Island Thank you for the explanation. I understand now.
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Oh my gosh, it can also mean, when used, followed with the word 'like'
(In direct translation)
"It happened as though...." =
"Da kine when go like...."
Or,
"...When go like...."
🤦!
Good one, today..........Da kine, the international expression..............Love you.........
+Barbara Ferreira Mahalo Barbara.
_In my younger days da kine meant it was the best smoke you could buy , or was I just hard of hearing_
AAAAhhhhahahah.. mumu leg...
Cause no need ack all specific fo nuhting wen we all kno exaclee wat stay talkeeng 'bout.
i totally understand what you when write !!!
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dis is a good da kine
.."da kine" da kine proof na kanaka da kine "mind readers", yeah?
Nānā, pay attention, or no communitalkin' no moa, 'cause took da wrong bus fo da baby lū'au. Never get dea..
Da moo moo leg 😂
Mean Andy. Da kine can mean anything. Das why pidgin English is awesome cuz, you say it anyway you like, spell anyway you like, and one word can be use in one conversation. Keep up the good work, mahaloz.
+mark wabinga Tanks eh! ...and I'll do my best to keep 'em coming.
lol, dis almos make it sound like da kine mean da same as smurf.
Me likie! dakine
hahahahah
Eh brah, you know da kine?
Tsk !
😂
A movie where they kept using this term.. a bunch of teens and i can't remember it. Teens Hawaiian locals , one kid is a pot head and gets his girlfriend pregnant.. idk but my son and I thought it was actually called Dakine.. we laughed alot over how much they threw it in a sentence. Maybe the movie got lost in the Mandela effect 🤔 😁.. i could not find it and looked so long.
stil nbevah ansah do' why? how come li' dat?
I hate to be vulgar, but I think "fuck" works similarly to this as well. At it's base level it means to have sex, but it's also used to express joy, anger, confusion, surprise so on and so forth until you get a sentence like, "these fucking fucks just fucked the fuckers." and unless you hear the tones and have some context surrounding the sentence it's tough to know if this is a good or bad thing... but you also know exactly what's going on at the same time.
dakine genius.
Sounds like "that kind" s I'm guessing that's where it originated.
why, bruddah, you like scraps, braah....no ac'
What does Karaang mean?
Grip. Grab. To hold tightly
Aloha Bruddah Andy from Eureka, CA.....I was kinda thinking that the phrase 'Da Kine' was a way of communicating an idea of what you know without having to find the right words to describe what you know.....I know it hurts my head now that I'm thinking about it.....But to tell you the truth all us kids KNEW what we were talking about back then.......Quick Question......have you ever cringed at reading the Pidgin Language as you actually read it?....I did because it always seemed like I was trying too hard to communitalk with it.......
+Lee Pittman Mahalo, and, yes, concerning the cringe factor. I'm working with someone now to try and put together a standard Pidgin spelling system. Not easy. We'll see how it goes.
sup with islander
yu dunna' know da' kine? why? how? no can brah, you dunno? seereeohsly? brah....
lol seems less confusing just to say what you mean
Why interrupt the flow of the conversation searching for the proper English language terminology when everyone knows what you are talking about?
🤙🤙🤙
How do explain “Can, can, or no can?”
If can can if no can then no can
why did my parents name me kine we're not even hawaiian ?
Da kine is da kine an das da kine. it's a word used all da time. simpo as a name it's a word dat means jus about any ting!
+James Keopuhiwa I hear the music behind what you sayin'
+James Keopuhiwa Oh yeah. ...and that's why I was concentrating on the usage. Mahalo Brah.
+Jodi Phillips one of da best song at came out talking about Da Kine
I thougth it was Robet Kakaula but checked and on Island Roots CD. Love the ending:-)
All about context and word associay-shen. Da kine is Def da kine. Perfs defini-shen Unko.
What Da Kine question is that what you tell someone who don't understand what Da Kine mean what Da Kine Wahine you like the one who drag bra
Dude, i'm a black Fourteen year old kid who's been interested in Hawaii, it's culture and the people along with language for YEARS, i still probably don't even know 1% of it, but this explanation got me to understand it immediately even though i only watched it once. The drawback with the word is that you'd have to guess, so wouldn't it be easier to say something like "They're waiting for him" "Who is waiting for him" "Da kine at school" meaning his friend?
No the idea is that the person saying da kine is saying it to someone who knows or understands through context exactly what ds kinw is a reference to. Mexican American call it slang for shit. Imma go get the shit, i know you want some shit. Nah i dont want that shit, get me the new shit. Aight.
Shit could mean MUSIC CD given the context
Or a burrito
Or a video game
This time I'll use woodprix instructions to make it by myself.
R these adbatisers mocking us? 50 prepare2 break off from the divided states ....