Nigerian Creole
✅ BASICS
- 👍 Yes / I dey: I dey (ee day)
- 👎 No / No wahala: No wahala (no wah-HAH-lah)
- 🙏 Please / Abeg: Abeg (ah-BEG)
- 😊 Thank you / You too much: You too much (yoo too mooch)
- 🤗 You’re welcome: You do well (yoo do well)
- 😬 Sorry: Sorry (sor-REE)
- 🙋 Excuse me / Permisi: Permisi (per-MEE-see)
👋 GREETINGS
- 👋 Hi / How far?: How far? (how fah?)
- 👋 Bye / I dey go: I dey go (ee day goh)
- 🌞 Good morning / How body?: How body? (how BOD-ee?)
- 🌙 Good night: Good night (good night)
❓ QUESTIONS / CAN I…?
- ❓ What?: Wetin? (WEH-tin?)
- 👤 Who?: Who be dis? (hoo beh dis?)
- 🕒 When?: When? (wen?)
- 📍 Where?: Where? (wheh?)
- 🛠️ How?: How? (how?)
- 🤔 Why?: Why? (why?)
- 🤷 I don’t know: I no sabi (ee no sah-bee)
- 😕 I don’t understand: I no understand (ee no un-der-STAND)
- 🔁 Again: Again (uh-GEN)
- 🙋♂️ Can I…?: I fit…? (ee fit…?)
🍎 WHAT?
- 🌟 Good: Sweet (sweet)
- 👎 Bad: Bad (bad)
- 😋 Yummy: This food sweet well-well (this food sweet well-well)
- 🤢 Yucky: E no sweet (ee no sweet)
- 🧸 I like it: I like am (ee like am)
- 💔 I don’t like it: I no like am (ee no like am)
- 💧 Water: Water (wah-ter)
- 🍝 Food: Chop (chop)
- 👉 This: This (this)
- 👉 That: That (that)
🧍♂️ WHO?
- 🧒 My name is…: My name na… (my naym nah…)
- 🗣️ What’s your name?: Wetin be your name? (weh‑tin beh yor naym?)
- 🙋 I am…: I be… (ee beh…)
- 👉 You are…: You be… (yoo beh…)
😀 FEELINGS
- 😃 I’m happy: I dey happy (ee day HA-pee)
- 😢 I’m sad: I dey sad (ee day sad)
- 😴 I’m tired: I dey tire (ee day ty-er)
- 😡 I’m mad: I dey vex (ee day vex)
- 🤕 I’m hurt: I dey pain (ee day pain)
- 🫤 I don’t feel good: I no dey well (ee no day well)
- 🥰 I love you: I love you (ee luv yoo)
- 🍽️ I’m hungry: I wan chop (ee wan chop)
- 🥤 I’m thirsty: I wan drink (ee wan drink)
⏰ WHEN?
- 📅 Today: Today (to‑DAY)
- 📆 Tomorrow: Tomorrow (to‑MAH-row)
- 🕰️ Yesterday: Yesterday (yes‑ter‑DAY)
- 🌅 Morning: Morning (MOR-ning)
- 🌌 Night: Night (night)
- ⏳ Now: Now (now)
- 🔜 Later: Later (LAY-ter)
📍 WHERE?
- 🔜 Right: Right (right)
- 🔙 Left: Left (left)
- ⬆️ Straight: Straight (strait)
- ⬅️ Front: In front (in front)
- ➡️ Behind: Behind (be-HIND)
- ⬆️ Top: Top (top)
- ⬇️ Bottom: Bottom (bot-tom)
- 🏠 Inside: Inside (in-side)
- 🌳 Outside: Outside (out-side)
- 🚪 Entrance / in: Enter (en-ter)
- 🏃♀️ Exit / out: Go comot (go COM-ot)
🔢 HOW MUCH?
- 💵 How much?: How much? (how much?)
- 😮 Too much: Too much (too much)
- 👌 A little: Small small (small small)
- 1️⃣–🔟 Numbers: One to ten (one, two, three… ten)
- 💯 One hundred: One hundred (one hund-red)
🧠 WHY?
- 🤔 Because: Because (bee-CUZ)
- 🧩 So…: So… (so…)
- 👀 If…: If… (if…)
- 🆚 But: But (but)
- 🔄 Or: Or (or)
- ➕ And: And (and)
💬 ACTIONS
- 🤲 I need: I need (ee need)
- 🙋♀️ I want: I want (ee want)
- 🙌 I give: I give (ee give)
- 🤝 I help: Help me (help mee)
- 🙋 I ask: I ask (ee ask)
- 🗣️ I say: I say (ee say)
- 👂 I listen: I listen (ee lis-sen)
- 👀 I see: I see (ee see)
- 🦶 I go: I dey go (ee day go)
- 🍽️ I eat: I dey chop (ee day chop)
- 🥤 I drink: I dey drink (ee day drink)
- 🛌 I sleep: I dey sleep (ee day sleep)
🔊 IMPORTANT WORDS
- 🆘 Help!: Epp me! (epp mee)
- 🔇 Quiet!: Quiet (kwai‑et)
- 🛑 Stop!: E don do! (ee don do!)
- 👀 Look!: Look (look)
- 🥱 Calm down: Calm down (calm down)
- 👏 Come here: Come here (come here)
- ⏳ Wait: Wait (wait)
- 🌟 Good job!: You too much (yoo too mooch)
- 🤝 Let’s go!: Make we go (make we go)
