Creole

This page covers Haitian Creole. A common word for a foolish person is sòt, and enbesil is a stronger insult.

The Haitian Creole word for “beach” is plaj, from French plage. With the article it becomes plaj la.

To say “I miss you” in Haitian Creole, use Ou manke m, literally “you are missing to me”. Mwen sonje ou also appears and means “I think of you”.

In Haitian Creole “good afternoon” is Bonswa. Haitians switch from Bonjou to Bonswa around midday, so Bonswa covers the whole afternoon.

In Haitian Creole, white rice is diri blan. Diri is rice and blan is white. It is often served with sòs pwa, a bean sauce. Diri ak pwa is rice with beans.

In Haitian Creole “Saturday” is Samdi. This page covers Haitian Creole. To say “on Saturday” you can just say samdi, as in Samdi map vini.

In Haitian Creole, “write” is ekri. The verb does not change for person or number. Ekri non ou isit la means “write your name here”.

This page covers Haitian Creole. To listen is koute. As a command Koute! means “Listen!”. With mwen it becomes Koute m, “listen to me”.

On this page Creole means Haitian Creole. A cow is a vach. The word bèf means beef or an ox, so it is not the usual word for the female animal.

In Haitian Creole, “the alphabet” is alfabè a. The word is alfabè and a is the definite article that follows it.