Mango season sweet dis year.
Mango season is excellent this year.
- Kind
- phrase
- Heard in
- Clarendon, May Pen Market
Patois is a language in its own right, with grammar that is not English grammar. The meaning above is how the conversation uses this phrase, not a word-for-word translation. The Patwa is a draft still awaiting review by Jamaican speakers.
Heard in the same place
- How much fi dis?How much is this?
- Wah yuh want?What do you want?
- Mawnin first, nuh?Good morning first, wouldn’t you?
- brawtaa small extra given as goodwill after a purchase
- Gi mi five hundred.Give me five hundred.
- Yuh a rob mi.You’re robbing me.
- nuh squeeze di Julie dem too harddon’t squeeze the Julie mangoes too hard