Maroon cow-horn instrument
Patois: Di maroon dem use to blow di abeng as a signal.
English: The maroons blew the abeng as a signal.
whose is it
Question used to ask for the owner of something.
Patois: Auufa pen dis?
English: Whose pen is it?
opportunity
A chance to improve
Patois: Im did get di apachuniti fi go farin.
English: He got the opportunity to go to a foreign country.
suddenly
Patois: Az mi tep out baps the rain staat faal.
English: As I stepped out, suddenly it began to rain.
Pregnant
Slang term for saying that a woman’s pregnant
Patois: Shi did waah hav har own way an now shi hav belly
English: She wanted to have her own way and now she is pregnant.