bredda
English
editNoun
editbredda (plural breddas or bredren)
- (Jamaica, colloquial) brother
- 2011 September 24, “90-Year-Old Needs Help To Finish House”, in The Gleaner[1]:
- "mi need the room dat im in, but mi can't throw him outside because is mi bredda"
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editJamaican Creole
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editPronunciation
editNoun
editbredda (plural bredda dem, quantified bredda)
- brother
- Mi a look fi mi bredda. ― I'm trying to find my brother.
- 1989, Stewart Brown, Mervyn Morris, Gordon Rohlehr, Voiceprint: An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN:
- “Oonoo call me bredda fi me! Beg yuh tell him come yah quick […] ”
- Go get my brother! Please tell him to come here quickly […]
- (figurative) guy
- It start gather up a big crowd and it happen that it just a develop till mi go buy a likkle amplifier from a bredda downtown.
- More and more people started coming and it became so popular that I decided to buy an amplifier from a guy in Kingston.
- 2006, Eric Jerome Dickey, Chasing Destiny (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN:
- “Something wrong wid him. Da bredda dey need to [sic] good lick […] ”
- There's something off about him. Someone ought to slap that guy around a few times. […]
Further reading
editNorwegian Bokmål
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editbredda m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk
editNoun
editbredda f
Swedish
editEtymology
editVerb
editbredda (present breddar, preterite breddade, supine breddat, imperative bredda)
- to widen (make wider)
- bredda en öppning
- widen an opening
- to broaden (increase in extent or comprehensiveness)
- bredda sin kunskap
- broaden one's knowledge
Conjugation
editConjugation of bredda (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | bredda | breddas | ||
Supine | breddat | breddats | ||
Imperative | bredda | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | bredden | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | breddar | breddade | breddas | breddades |
Ind. plural1 | bredda | breddade | breddas | breddades |
Subjunctive2 | bredde | breddade | breddes | breddades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | breddande | |||
Past participle | breddad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
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