"fina" meaning in English

See fina in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Contraction

Head templates: {{head|en|contraction|head=}} fina, {{en-cont}} fina
  1. African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action. Tags: contraction Synonyms: fixing to
    Sense id: en-fina-en-contraction--vtF5~Fj Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English, English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for fina meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "fina",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fina",
      "name": "en-cont"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jodie Miller, quoting \"Lisa\", Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence",
          "text": "I'm like, \"Well I'm fina catch the bus home,\" 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, page 8",
          "text": "\"I'm fina make some money off yo' ass.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jody Miller, quoting \"Shauntell\", “Case study: African American girls, urban inequality”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, page 267",
          "text": "Then [the girls] come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, page 182",
          "text": "\"I'm fina beat this bitch ass!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action."
      ],
      "id": "en-fina-en-contraction--vtF5~Fj",
      "links": [
        [
          "fixing to",
          "fixing to#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fixing to"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "contraction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fina"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "fina",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fina",
      "name": "en-cont"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "African-American Vernacular English",
        "English contractions",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jodie Miller, quoting \"Lisa\", Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence",
          "text": "I'm like, \"Well I'm fina catch the bus home,\" 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, page 8",
          "text": "\"I'm fina make some money off yo' ass.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jody Miller, quoting \"Shauntell\", “Case study: African American girls, urban inequality”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, page 267",
          "text": "Then [the girls] come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, page 182",
          "text": "\"I'm fina beat this bitch ass!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fixing to",
          "fixing to#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "contraction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fixing to"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fina"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.