bredda
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bredda (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"
Anagrams
[edit]Jamaican Creole
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bredda (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
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bredda m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]bredda f
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]bredda (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
[edit]Conjugation of bredda (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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