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In Haitian Creole “beautiful girl” is bèl fi. The adjective bèl comes before the noun, which is one of the few adjectives that do.

This page covers Haitian Creole. The direction “left” is goch, and agoch means “to the left”. For directions say vire agoch for “turn left”.

In Haitian Creole “breadfruit” is lam veritab. The word veritab comes from French véritable, “true”.

In Haitian Creole, “weird” is dwòl. Etranj also means strange and sounds a bit more neutral. Sa dwòl means “that is weird”.

In Haitian Creole “cheese” is fwomaj, from French fromage. With the article it is fwomaj la.

In Haitian Creole breakfast is manje maten, literally “morning food”. You will also hear dejene, from the French déjeuner.

The everyday word for “dad” in Haitian Creole is papa. To say “my dad” you add the short pronoun: papa m.

This page covers Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen), the most widely spoken creole. Orange juice is ji zoranj. Ji is the word for juice and zoranj is orange.

A granddaughter in Haitian Creole is pitit pitit fi, literally “child child girl”. Pitit pitit alone means grandchild.

In Haitian Creole “summer” is ete. This page covers Haitian Creole. Say nan ete for “in summer” and ete a for “the summer”.