Phrasebook
Phrases as speakers actually say them, next to the English. These are hand-written, not machine output — useful as a check on the translator, and as a way to see where the two creoles converge and where they part company.
Work & hustle
12 phrasesEnglish
Nigerian Pidgin
What work do you do?
Pidgin
Wetin be your work?
I am working
Pidgin
I dey work
I am looking for a job
Pidgin
I dey find work
The money is not enough
Pidgin
Di money no reach
I will send it today
Pidgin
I go send am today
Give me a little time
Pidgin
Give me small time
It is finished
Pidgin
E done finish
No problem
Pidgin
No wahala
I am busy
Pidgin
I dey busy
I have been working all day
Pidgin
I don dey work since morning
When will you pay me?
Pidgin
When you go pay me?
Let us do it together
Pidgin
Make we do am together
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