Negative Sentences - Part 1

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Bonswa tout moun! - Good evening everyone!
 Pa - is the determiner for the Haitian Creole negative form.

1. m pa konprann - I don't understand
2. m pa konnen - I don't know
3. nou pa kapab - we cannot
4. li pa kontan - he's not happy
5. m pa pale Kreyòl twò byen - I don't speak Creole too well

there isn't / there aren't
6. pa gen lekòl jodi a - there's no school today
7. pa gen pwoblèm - there's no problem
8. pa gen moun la - there's no one there
9. pa gen anyen la - there's nothing here

imperatives
10. pa kouri - don't run
11. pa gade m - don't look at me
12. pa enkyete w - don't worry
13. pa pale twò fò - don't talk too loud
14. pa fè sa - don't do that
15. pa fache - don't be angry
16. pa fache avè m - don't be mad at me

Bonswa e orevwa - good evening and goodbye

track: Lè latè Te San Lanmou by Caribbean Gospel Mizik

Negative Sentences - Part 2

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BONJOU TOUT MOUN! – HELLO EVERYONE!

Last time we made negatives sentences such as:
M pa pale – I don’t speak
m pa konprann - I don't understand

Today we’ll make negatives sentences with NEVER.
Jamè - never
Janm - never

Jamè is a French word for never. In French it is written as jamais
Janm is the creole word derived from jamais.

In Haitian Creole we use both jamè and janm
Negative sentence = pa janm, or pa jamè


1. M pa konnen – I don’t know
2. M pa janm konnen – I never know

3. Nou pa pale – we don’t talk
4. Nou pa janm pale - We never talk

5. Ou pa konprann – you don’t understand
6. Ou pa janm konprann – you never understand

7. Pa gen moun la - There’s no one here
8. Pa janm gen moun la – there’s never anyone here

9. Pa lage – don’t give up
10. Pa janm lage – never give up, don’t ever give up

Let us look at a few more examples:

11. M pa janm li – I never read
12. Li pa janm travay – it never works
13. M pa janm bwè – I never drink
14. Li pa janm twò ta – it’s never too late
15. M pa janm sèl – I’m never alone

16. Pa janm bliye m – don’t ever forget me
17. Pa janm lage m – don’t ever let me go
18. Pa janm pale ak bouch plen – never talk with your mouth full
19. Pa janm di jamè – never say never
20. Pa janm sispann souri - never stop smiling


Believe - kwè
How would you translate: I never believe


Sit down – chita
How would you translate : I never sit down


.Mèsi, orevwa e pa janm sispann aprann
Thank you, goodbye and never stop learning.

Track: La machin a danse by La Compagnie Creole