ItsModella:
badt----> Bad
bad belle---> hater

abiL:


Is yaba left a pidgin word for a mental institution?

lalaosky: bad belle:hater
story:tori
hit:knack.it can be used in telling a story like "oya knack(tell) me the story" or in hitting someone like "oya knack(hit) that stick".it could also means making love or fûck like "i wan knack that babe akpako(i want to fûck that babe)
fûck:knack,lash,waya(this one is so numerous)
want:wan
urinate:piss

abiL:


Is yaba left a pidgin word for a mental institution?

flanrey: @Abil, just learn the pidgin substitutes for different words and switch it

lalaosky:

lwkmd...it's a mental institution in lagos state

ItsModella:
Sorta, Yaba left is the colloquial name for Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos. The reason why it's called Yaba left is because when you get into Yaba, on the left side is the hospital.

Idowuogbo:
Moyo omo ajinomoto! How cabana?

abiL:


What's akpako?

Shollypopz: The best way to learn the Nigerian vernacular, is to surround yourself with those that speak it.

Shollypopz: The best way to learn the Nigerian vernacular, is to surround yourself with those that speak it.

abiL:


Oooooh makes sense. Thankachuu

lalaosky: oya make we begin

buttocks: nyash, backa, ikebe, bakassi
i like your buttocks:i gbadun your ikebe
brèast:bobby
eat:chop,shop(warri dialect)
i want to eat:i wan chop/shop
shift:dress go one side
mad:kolo
are you mad:you don dey kolo?
policeman:ekelebe
prison:sanko
witch:winch/winsh(warri dialect)
mad person: werey
walk:waka
they:dey
them:dem
am:dey
i'm coming:i dey come/show
should i come:make i show
come:show/come

flanrey:

Instead of saying thank you, you could say:
Correct!
You too much!
Confirm!

hornipipe: ikebe and werey aint pidgin but igbo and yoruba respectively

Sybellah: Sentences:

KK: una dey waka shakin bakassi like una dey kolo
II: see bad belle na, u no got nyansh? Go shop garri

Are these correct

Moyola:

lol! whuch tym iwake up dey beat moto?! edey! usef?

flanrey:

Eeeewwwww.... that pidgin english is so thick and oldskool

abiL:

I don't know anyone who speak it. I've learnt some through NL but I'll be scared of speaking pidgin in case I mess it up

abiL:

I don hear you!


...is that right?

lalaosky: help:helep
garri:eba
run:tiañwu
don't:no..like dont come here(no come here) or no try me o(don't try me)
girls:babe,sharwamma,okpeke
touts:agbero
transit bus:molue(hope am right?)
money:peper
i don't have money:pepper no rest for my side

Sybellah: Sentences:

KK: una dey waka shakin bakassi like una dey kolo
II: see bad belle na, u no got nyansh? Go shop garri

Are these correct

Sybellah:

lmaoooo i just put a few words i have seen on this page together

Sybellah: Sentences:

KK: una dey waka shakin bakassi like una dey kolo
II: see bad belle na, u no got nyansh? Go shop garri

Are these correct

Shollypopz:
You have no Nigerian friends in UK that can speak pidgin?? Especially guys! Most Nigerian girls I meet can't speak pidgin.

Even now, I still can't have a conversation in pidgin cos it doesn't flow and I always switch back to what I'm comfortable with but u hv to try mehn. Just keep messing up till u get it right

Idowuogbo:
Wot u translating?

abiL:


Ikebe super