✅ BASICS
- 👍 Yes: Yea (yeh-ah)
- 👎 No: No (noh)
- 🙏 Please: Please (pleez)
- 😊 Thank you: Tank yuh (tank yuh)
- 🤗 You’re welcome: No problem (noh PRAH-blem)
- 😬 Sorry: Sawi (SAH-wee)
- 🙋 Excuse me: Sori (SOH-ree)
👋 GREETINGS
- 👋 Hi / Hello: Wa gwaan (wah GWAHN)
- 👋 Bye: Likkle more (LIH-klah mohr)
- 🌞 Good morning: Gud mawning (good MAW-ning)
- 🌙 Good night: Gud nite (good NITE)
❓ QUESTIONS
- ❓ What is it?: Wah dat? (wah daht?)
- 👤 Who?: A who? (ah hoo?)
- 🕒 When?: Wen? (wehn?)
- 📍 Where?: Weh? (we)
- 🛠️ How?: How? (how?)
- 🤔 Why?: Why? (why?)
- 🤷 I don’t know: Mi nuh know (mee nuh noh)
- 😕 I don’t understand: Mi nuh undastan (mee nuh un-dah-STAHN)
- 🔁 Again: Again (ah-GEHN)
- 🙋♂️ Can I…?: Can mi…? (kan mee…?)
🍎 WHAT?
- 🌟 Good: Good (good)
- 👎 Bad: Bad (bad)
- 😋 Yummy: Nice! (nyce!)
- 🤢 Yucky: Bash up! (bash up!)
- 🧸 I like it: Mi like dat (mee laik daht)
- 💔 I don’t like it: Mi nuh like dat (mee nuh laik daht)
- 💧 Water: Wata (WAH-tah)
- 🍝 Food: Food (food)
- 👉 This: Dis (dis)
- 👉 That: Dat (daht)
🧍♂️ WHO?
- 🧒 My name is: Mi name a… (mee niam ah…)
- 🗣️ What’s your name?: Wah yuh name? (wah yuh niam?)
- 🙋 I am: Mi a… (mee ah…)
- 👉 You are: Yuh a… (yuh ah…)
😀 FEELINGS
- 😃 I’m happy: Mi happy (mee HAP-ee)
- 😢 I’m sad: Mi sad (mee sad)
- 😴 I’m tired: Mi tired (mee TY-red)
- 😡 I’m mad: Mi vex (mee vehks)
- 🤕 I’m hurt: Mi hurt (mee hurt)
- 🫤 I don’t feel good: Mi nuh feel good (mee nuh feel good)
- 🥰 I love you: Mi love yuh (mee luv yuh)
- 🍽️ I’m hungry: Mi hungry (mee HUNG-gree)
- 🥤 I’m thirsty: Mi thirsty (mee THUR-stee)
⏰ WHEN?
- 📅 Today: Today (to-day)
- 📆 Tomorrow: Tomorrow (to-MAR-oh)
- 🕰️ Yesterday: Yesterday (yes-ter-day)
- 🌅 Morning: Mawnin (MAW-nin)
- 🌌 Night: Nite (nite)
- ⏳ Now: Now (now)
- 🔜 Later: Lata (LAH-tah)
📍 WHERE?
- 🔜 Right: Rait (raht)
- 🔙 Left: Lef (leff)
- ⬆️ Straight: Strate (straht)
- ⬅️ Front: Front (frunt)
- ➡️ Behind: Behind (be-HAHND)
- ⬆️ Top / above: Top (top)
- ⬇️ Bottom / below: Bottom (BOH-tum)
- 🏠 Inside: Inna (IN-nah)
- 🌳 Outside: Outta (OUT-tah)
- 🚪 Entrance / in: Inna (same as inside)
- 🏃♀️ Exit / out: Outta (same as outside)
🔢 HOW MUCH?
- 💵 How much?: How much? (how much?)
- 😮 Too much: Too much! (too much!)
- 👌 A little: Lil bit (lil bit)
- 1️⃣ One: One (wuhn)
- 2️⃣ Two: Two (too)
- 3️⃣ Three: Three (three)
- 4️⃣ Four: Four (foh)
- 5️⃣ Five: Five (five)
- 6️⃣ Six: Six (six)
- 7️⃣ Seven: Seven (se-ven)
- 8️⃣ Eight: Eight (eight)
- 9️⃣ Nine: Nine (nine)
- 🔟 Ten: Ten (ten)
- 💯 One hundred: One hundred (wuhn HUN-dred)
🧠 WHY?
- 🤔 Because: Cause (kawz)
- 🧩 So…: So (soh)
- 👀 If…: If (if)
- 🆚 But: But (but)
- 🔄 Or: Or (or)
- ➕ And: And (and)
💬 ACTIONS
- 🤲 I need: Mi need (mee need)
- 🙋♀️ I want: Mi want (mee want)
- 🙌 I give: Mi give (mee give)
- 🤝 I help: Mi help (mee help)
- 🙋 I ask: Mi ask (mee ask)
- 🗣️ I say: Mi seh (mee seh)
- 👂 I listen: Mi listen (mee LIS-tin)
- 👀 I see: Mi see (mee see)
- 🦶 I go: Mi go (mee goh)
- 🍽️ I eat: Mi eat (mee eet)
- 🥤 I drink: Mi drink (mee drink)
- 🛌 I sleep: Mi sleep (mee sleep)
🔊 IMPORTANT WORDS
- 🆘 Help!: Help! (help!)
- 🔇 Quiet!: Quiet! (kyet)
- 🛑 Stop!: Stop! (stop)
- 👀 Look!: Look! (look)
- 🥱 Calm down: Calm down! (kalm down!)
- 👏 Come here: Come yah! (kum yuh!)
- ⏳ Wait: Wait! (wayt!)
- 🌟 Good job!: Good job! (good job!)
- 🤝 Let’s go!: Mek we go! (mek wee go!)