I kept getting caught off guard by oonah until I realized it's like saying "you now/y'all now. I don't remember it being explained like that. Might wanna if you ever update. Idk. I think it would make it a little easier but no big deal, really. Great videos BTW. Much thanx. Keep up the good work. 🔥
Steven Weaver figure it will help it fi stick. Rasta words nuh dat diffrent...dem Patwah only have slight differences...like dem refer to demself as I and I...an a few odda subtle words...but fi di most part yuh can andastan dem.
This is amazing!!! It's like using Latin letters to spell English words. Patwa made me know that I and y are equal depending on whose talking to you. And English replaced African/Greek/Latin double letters with Arabic single letter equivalents
Interesting take...it draws from a bunch of different languages. From learning Spanish and Portuguese...I'm seeing a lot of Portuguese similarities as well. Funny because even though we haven't gotten there yet, we use "Oi" in patwah the exact same way they do in Brazil. A Jamaican will say..."Oi deh!" which means "Hey there!"...since starting to put these together I've been learning things about it myself that I didn't even know. Crazy.
@@ChatPatwah oi is completely different the. I usually see io, or yo. They both mean translate to I in English. What patwa taught me is that h is and always has been an axe. Sizzla for example, showed me that hate sounds like ate. But I Wayne speaks patwa purely in his music, and so you can tell that patwa and Latin haf nuhn in common. It's Jamaican English. Completely unique to all languages
I wish I could learn patwa but English as a first language makes it hard. Also, I Wayne taught me to listen. If I hear patwa spoken slowly, I can actually understand the language. Same for Spanish.
@@jajuanrussell5386 you right about English as a first language does make it difficult...it doesn't translate sometimes even with words that you understand. The next set of lessons coming up, I'm going to try to break down how Jamaican minds construct sentences and try to simplify it so you won't need to memorize, but will have no problem putting your English thoughts into Patwah...I just feel like the culture is so rich that understanding patwah will open up a whole new world. Check out Fantan Mojah when you get a chance and this song "Rasta Got Soul"...I think everything you learned to date, you should have no problem with that song. There's only one word I think he used I didn't go over...the line is "big mout dem nuh stop labberin" which literally means "big mouths they won't stop talkin trash"
Tank yuh bruv for dem video!!!! mi white man, ( *mostly* white) mi canadian and dem video-suit fit mi good mon!! Lawd Gawd bless ya!! (Can I say that in a good way?)
Thanks for the support...That's coming in the future...wanted to cover the basics first...that's a little more intermediate...but here's a preview. There are a few patwah words that have the "er" "ir" sound in their endings that we drop and it just makes a "ah" or "uh" sound...for example: HURT = Hot ... but the "o" sounds more like the short "a"...so would be more like "hat"...So in a sentence "Mi head a hot ["hat"] mi" = My head is hurting me. This is a tricky word because it's sometimes used in its original for depending on where it is in the sentence...for example: "Nuh hurt him eenuh!" = Don't hurt him you know! I'll get into that later...but here are a few other words where the "r" sound is replaced. DIRT = DUT SHIRT = SHUT FIRST = FUSS WORSE = WUS CURSE = CUSS We'll get to them all...that way in a video I can actually visually demonstrate.
Another excellent video. QUESTIONS:Regarding "Dem mussi gone home." Why is the past tense "gone" used here? Why does "Yuh mussi tink me a fool" translate to the english past tense? Likewise for "Nuh mussi him do it!" Also, does "nuh" always mean "it"? Mi no undastand :)
It will be a little clearer once you get to past tense, but to preview…we use “mussi” in 2 ways, for ‘must be’ and ‘must have’. So “Dem mussi gone home” in that context would be ‘must have’. The way we usually designate present and future tense is usually with the -ing verbs, by adding the a before the verb (dominant a) or ‘a guh’ before the verb (going to) for future. The other instances usually are past tense. Example: 1. Dem mussi a guh home = They must be going home (present) 2. Dem mussi a guh guh home = They must be going(about) to go home 3. Dem mussi gone home = They must have gone home. Will make more sense as you progress. How we do past tense in patwah…whenever yuh have subject followed by verb it’s past tense…because to make it present or future we put the verb in motion. Example: Mi tell him = I told him (past tense) Mi a tell him = I am telling him Mi a guh tell him = I am going to till him Mi wi tell him = I will tell him That’s pretty much how we express the various tenses. Jumping the gun a little bit, but just wanted to shed some light on that. Lastly “Nuh” in that context operates slightly different than in English…when we start the sentence with “nuh” it kinda is like “isn’t it” by way of affirmation. Nuh him do it…=(I’m sure) he did it. Nuh mussi him do it = (I’m sure) must be him (who/that) did it. “Nuh” means different things based on context…address that during the lesson on Negation. Sorry for all the info dump, but it’ll get clearer as you progress…if you have trouble let me know, and we’ll straighten it out. 👊🏾
@@ChatPatwah Thanks so much! Gonna print it out and study. You are doing something amazing here. I've never seen any explanation of Jamaican Patwah or any other dialect with this level of linguistic precision. Truly outstanding. 👊
Yuh cyan seh it 2 ways...if yuh use “Nuh mussi him do it! = more emphasis with the “nuh” preceding the phrase...yuh woulda seh “mussi him do it = more casual “...Patwah is animated so putting the “nuh” before usually is used with more emphasis. Let me know if this helps.
Daikaji remember context is key! Depending on how yuh use it can mean emphasis...remember it also is used for don’t/not...but based on where it is, it will make sense. Check out the interactive lessons on the Memrise App when u get a chance.
PAU ZALAKAIN yeh, yuh cyan seh it like dat...or in a instance like dat wi love fi use di word “nevah = never”...Suh...”Oonuh nevah did haffi...do dat to him!”...etc
Also A is long a, which is aa in older languages. a is ah in Latin and even Greek or Hebrew and Phoenician. E is long e, or ee, and i in every language except English. which sounds like ee. e is eh in every language except English. I breaks the rules, because you actually can't say I without a. I is ai. O is o, but in white regions of the world, it will have an h on the end: oh u is the letter that doesn't change drastically. I'm fixated on u. u makes an oo sound if it's first in the word, but uu is equal to w. However in old Greek, uu sounded like ui or wi/we/wee in English. Patwa made me realize that language is interesting. I actually study this stuff: from the characters to the sounds that they make. It's all phonics, and Babylon is where one language became many. Sizzla said Babylon mean confusion. That has to be a fact. It's even in the Bible.
I believe in the video I was referencing no past tense as that of how it's used in English...it's usually the present tense verb preceded by "did" or just the noun/pronoun followed by the present tense form of the verb.. For example: Went = Did guh. Told = did tell. I went = Mi guh... I told = Mi tell. Let me know your thoughts.
@@ChatPatwah I listened again. You said : "...and because Patwah has no past tense..." I understand the intent. I would also make the point that "A" is a major tense marker. Even if did is left out it still indicates the time. You're doing a wonderful job.
@@MoneyStory52 thanks for the support...I could've communicated that a little better...also a learning process for me. I appreciate your feedback...please keep it coming, only helps me to grow! :)
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Di lesson dem fantastic. Yuh a teach so professional, Yeh mahn!
"yeh man" or "yea mon" No one says that unless showing justification or saying something is well deserved.
@@joshuaatkins9246 they trying to sound Jamaican through their keyboard 😂😂
@@ValerieIsGivingBrokeVibes lmao
This lesson is excellent. Thank you.🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆
dis a most complete explanation fi mi learn chat patwa. A give many tanks fi yuh, teacher
Appreciate dat! Respeck 👊🏾🇯🇲
hello admin of Chat Patwah, this is an excellent channel. Now mi mussi learn Jamaican Patwah. Very good exposure for me.
Thanks so much for this! These lessons are so unbelievably helpful!
Tanks a lot bredda.. Mi a see a little progression alredi.. Bless up✌
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It was nicely Down mi Hope learn patwah soon tans alot un this channel
YOU Are incredible good! Thanks a lot!
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I kept getting caught off guard by oonah until I realized it's like saying "you now/y'all now. I don't remember it being explained like that. Might wanna if you ever update. Idk. I think it would make it a little easier but no big deal, really. Great videos BTW. Much thanx. Keep up the good work. 🔥
@@bobbyvee6414 this is the updated video on the subject ruclips.net/video/ShAVa5cULxE/видео.htmlsi=tyrZytzXQ0KuyiY4
I knew I was hearing a y-sound! Thanks for breaking it down!
Me a man but it a adorable ting yuh put a likkle crown fi most used words. It a go good breda! Deh a videos bout rasta words especially?
Steven Weaver figure it will help it fi stick. Rasta words nuh dat diffrent...dem Patwah only have slight differences...like dem refer to demself as I and I...an a few odda subtle words...but fi di most part yuh can andastan dem.
This is amazing!!! It's like using Latin letters to spell English words.
Patwa made me know that I and y are equal depending on whose talking to you. And English replaced African/Greek/Latin double letters with Arabic single letter equivalents
Interesting take...it draws from a bunch of different languages. From learning Spanish and Portuguese...I'm seeing a lot of Portuguese similarities as well. Funny because even though we haven't gotten there yet, we use "Oi" in patwah the exact same way they do in Brazil. A Jamaican will say..."Oi deh!" which means "Hey there!"...since starting to put these together I've been learning things about it myself that I didn't even know. Crazy.
@@ChatPatwah oi is completely different the. I usually see io, or yo. They both mean translate to I in English.
What patwa taught me is that h is and always has been an axe. Sizzla for example, showed me that hate sounds like ate.
But I Wayne speaks patwa purely in his music, and so you can tell that patwa and Latin haf nuhn in common.
It's Jamaican English. Completely unique to all languages
I wish I could learn patwa but English as a first language makes it hard. Also, I Wayne taught me to listen. If I hear patwa spoken slowly, I can actually understand the language. Same for Spanish.
@@jajuanrussell5386 you right about English as a first language does make it difficult...it doesn't translate sometimes even with words that you understand. The next set of lessons coming up, I'm going to try to break down how Jamaican minds construct sentences and try to simplify it so you won't need to memorize, but will have no problem putting your English thoughts into Patwah...I just feel like the culture is so rich that understanding patwah will open up a whole new world. Check out Fantan Mojah when you get a chance and this song "Rasta Got Soul"...I think everything you learned to date, you should have no problem with that song. There's only one word I think he used I didn't go over...the line is "big mout dem nuh stop labberin" which literally means "big mouths they won't stop talkin trash"
it`s amazing please keep uploding more videos like this I am from Nicaragua and I want to learn Jamaican patwah
Will do Eddy! Hope I can help...if yuh have questions just ask! 👍🏾🇯🇲. Respeck!
@Sade Jones that is true but they don't upload videos to learn the language but you do
Great lesson tanks
Thank you so much for these videos!
Tanks fi di support!
Tank yuh bruv for dem video!!!! mi white man, ( *mostly* white) mi canadian and dem video-suit fit mi good mon!!
Lawd Gawd bless ya!! (Can I say that in a good way?)
I am a God loving person btw
Doing good...yuh can use di “a” after mi...for ‘I am’...example Mi a Canadian = I am Canadian...but yuh a do good! 👍🏾
@@ChatPatwah Thanks!! I'll keep that in mind
Tanks fi di great lesson!
Tanks fi di feedback an support! Respeck.
Can you do a video on words like hurt. I respect your channel God bless👍
Thanks for the support...That's coming in the future...wanted to cover the basics first...that's a little more intermediate...but here's a preview.
There are a few patwah words that have the "er" "ir" sound in their endings that we drop and it just makes a "ah" or "uh" sound...for example:
HURT = Hot ... but the "o" sounds more like the short "a"...so would be more like "hat"...So in a sentence "Mi head a hot ["hat"] mi" = My head is hurting me.
This is a tricky word because it's sometimes used in its original for depending on where it is in the sentence...for example:
"Nuh hurt him eenuh!" = Don't hurt him you know!
I'll get into that later...but here are a few other words where the "r" sound is replaced.
DIRT = DUT
SHIRT = SHUT
FIRST = FUSS
WORSE = WUS
CURSE = CUSS
We'll get to them all...that way in a video I can actually visually demonstrate.
Tank u mi frem fi dis vidios
Yuh welcome mi boss! Tanks fe di support!
Good lesson
Tanks 🙏🏾🇯🇲…Respeck!
Another excellent video.
QUESTIONS:Regarding "Dem mussi gone home."
Why is the past tense "gone" used here?
Why does "Yuh mussi tink me a fool" translate
to the english past tense?
Likewise for "Nuh mussi him do it!"
Also, does "nuh" always mean "it"?
Mi no undastand :)
It will be a little clearer once you get to past tense, but to preview…we use “mussi” in 2 ways, for ‘must be’ and ‘must have’.
So “Dem mussi gone home” in that context would be ‘must have’. The way we usually designate present and future tense is usually with the -ing verbs, by adding the a before the verb (dominant a) or ‘a guh’ before the verb (going to) for future. The other instances usually are past tense.
Example:
1. Dem mussi a guh home = They must be going home (present)
2. Dem mussi a guh guh home = They must be going(about) to go home
3. Dem mussi gone home = They must have gone home.
Will make more sense as you progress.
How we do past tense in patwah…whenever yuh have subject followed by verb it’s past tense…because to make it present or future we put the verb in motion.
Example: Mi tell him = I told him (past tense)
Mi a tell him = I am telling him
Mi a guh tell him = I am going to till him
Mi wi tell him = I will tell him
That’s pretty much how we express the various tenses. Jumping the gun a little bit, but just wanted to shed some light on that.
Lastly “Nuh” in that context operates slightly different than in English…when we start the sentence with “nuh” it kinda is like “isn’t it” by way of affirmation. Nuh him do it…=(I’m sure) he did it.
Nuh mussi him do it = (I’m sure) must be him (who/that) did it.
“Nuh” means different things based on context…address that during the lesson on Negation. Sorry for all the info dump, but it’ll get clearer as you progress…if you have trouble let me know, and we’ll straighten it out. 👊🏾
@@ChatPatwah Thanks so much! Gonna print it out and study. You are doing something amazing here. I've never seen any explanation of Jamaican Patwah or any other dialect with this level of linguistic precision. Truly outstanding. 👊
@@tyroneslothrop1885 just tryin to help brother…here if you need me! 👊🏾
@@ChatPatwah Big up yuhself!
Yoow yuh more dan a teacher
richard Sewordor Respeck 🙏🏾...jus a try fi help.🇯🇲
Fi "nuh mussi him do it," cyan mi tek off di "nuh"? Mi tink mi a miss someting. Tanks fi di lesson dem!
Yuh cyan seh it 2 ways...if yuh use “Nuh mussi him do it! = more emphasis with the “nuh” preceding the phrase...yuh woulda seh “mussi him do it = more casual “...Patwah is animated so putting the “nuh” before usually is used with more emphasis. Let me know if this helps.
@@ChatPatwah So the nuh is extra emphasis, makes sense! Thank you again
Daikaji remember context is key! Depending on how yuh use it can mean emphasis...remember it also is used for don’t/not...but based on where it is, it will make sense. Check out the interactive lessons on the Memrise App when u get a chance.
@@ChatPatwah Tink mi andastan. Mi a go keep a watch an a practice. Wi appreciate yuh hard work
Daikaji if yuh need help jus link mi! Mi deh yah fi help yuh!
So fi seh 'you didn't have to' it woulda be: onnuh nuh did haffi'?
PAU ZALAKAIN yeh, yuh cyan seh it like dat...or in a instance like dat wi love fi use di word “nevah = never”...Suh...”Oonuh nevah did haffi...do dat to him!”...etc
Stick to your white talk
Also A is long a, which is aa in older languages. a is ah in Latin and even Greek or Hebrew and Phoenician.
E is long e, or ee, and i in every language except English. which sounds like ee. e is eh in every language except English.
I breaks the rules, because you actually can't say I without a. I is ai.
O is o, but in white regions of the world, it will have an h on the end: oh
u is the letter that doesn't change drastically. I'm fixated on u.
u makes an oo sound if it's first in the word, but uu is equal to w. However in old Greek, uu sounded like ui or wi/we/wee in English.
Patwa made me realize that language is interesting. I actually study this stuff: from the characters to the sounds that they make.
It's all phonics, and Babylon is where one language became many. Sizzla said Babylon mean confusion. That has to be a fact. It's even in the Bible.
10:44 cyan mi say 'yuh mussi did tink me a fool'
Chisom Odimmegwa yup...jus change di me to mi...can also say...’tink seh mi a fool’. Seh in that case means ‘that’
9:48, can we say ' yuh a go haffi tell mi why'
Chisom Odimmegwa yup...you are going to have to tell me why...👍🏾
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Can't find a single video on the Jamaican accent. It's always patois. Very frustrating.
Not understanding the comment. E-mail us chatpatwahchannel@gmail.com
Weh mi yardies dem deh
Hi, I'm from Mexico, can u adopt me as a yardie?
@@aprilbayona3922 um yardie means Jamaican but if you want then ok
@@scoob.productions yeah, I know that. That's why I'm trying to learn patwa.
And where r u from?
@@aprilbayona3922 im from Jamaica i speak patwa
@@scoob.productions which part? Is it expensive to live in Jamaca?
Wah gwaan! Wah yu seh
At 3:32, can i say "mi a go home fi mek a cake"
Yeh...you just said... You’re going home to make a cake...perfectly
@@ChatPatwah are there any pasttense in patwah?
You said Pawah has no past tense but that's not true. It's formed differently from English
I believe in the video I was referencing no past tense as that of how it's used in English...it's usually the present tense verb preceded by "did" or just the noun/pronoun followed by the present tense form of the verb.. For example: Went = Did guh. Told = did tell. I went = Mi guh... I told = Mi tell. Let me know your thoughts.
@@ChatPatwah I listened again. You said : "...and because Patwah has no past tense..." I understand the intent. I would also make the point that "A" is a major tense marker. Even if did is left out it still indicates the time.
You're doing a wonderful job.
@@MoneyStory52 thanks for the support...I could've communicated that a little better...also a learning process for me. I appreciate your feedback...please keep it coming, only helps me to grow! :)
All the wannabes in the comments 😂
Be nice