"fi" meaning in Jamaican Creole

See fi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Preposition

IPA: /ˈfɪ/
Etymology: From English for to. Etymology templates: {{der|jam|en|for to}} English for to Head templates: {{head|jam|prepositions}} fi, {{jam-prep}} fi
  1. for
    Sense id: en-fi-jam-prep-EMIrz0x2
  2. (+ infinitive) to Tags: with-infinitive
    Sense id: en-fi-jam-prep-Zj6hv~~l
  3. (interrogative) (+ infinitive) can Tags: interrogative
    Sense id: en-fi-jam-prep-q9PrNxOI Categories (other): Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header, Jamaican Creole prepositions Disambiguation of Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header: 0 0 56 44 Disambiguation of Jamaican Creole prepositions: 11 11 53 25
  4. (+ infinitive) should Tags: with-infinitive
    Sense id: en-fi-jam-prep--GsfYqhV

Download JSON data for fi meaning in Jamaican Creole (3.4kB)

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "for to"
      },
      "expansion": "English for to",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From English for to.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "2": "prepositions"
      },
      "expansion": "fi",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fi",
      "name": "jam-prep"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "fi"
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I have a headache. Can you give me something for the pain?",
          "text": "Mi head a hot mi. Yuh have supn can gimme fi it?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I asked myself how they could possibly think that the pastor's trial would be an appropriate event for children to see. […]",
          "ref": "2016, Sylvia Gilfillian, The Road to Timnath: Di Ruod Tu Timnat",
          "text": "A wanda how dem come fi tink dat di trial a di pastor is a fittin event fi a pikni witness. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "for"
      ],
      "id": "en-fi-jam-prep-EMIrz0x2",
      "links": [
        [
          "for",
          "for"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "We want to know what's going on.",
          "text": "Wi wah fi know wah gwaan.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I looked up at the platform and saw about eight wooden chairs up there. I studied them to see which one I could move because some of them were made of solid wood and looked extremely heavy. […]",
          "ref": "2016, Sylvia Gilfillian, The Road to Timnath: Di Ruod Tu Timnat",
          "text": "Me look up to di platform and see about eight wooden chairs up deh. Me eyeball dem fi see which wan a dem me kuda move because some a dem carve outa solid wood and look well heavy. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to"
      ],
      "id": "en-fi-jam-prep-Zj6hv~~l",
      "links": [
        [
          "to",
          "to"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(+ infinitive) to"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "with-infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 56 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 11 53 25",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "How can they do a thing like that?",
          "text": "How dem fi do dat?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "How can you walk and eat, and throw litter in the street?\nI just can't understand how you can do it. […]",
          "ref": "2018, Shelley Sykes-Coley, Chat ’Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations",
          "text": "“How unnu fi walk an' nyam, an' litter di street?\nMi jus' cyaan andastan' how unno fi dweet. […]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(+ infinitive) can"
      ],
      "id": "en-fi-jam-prep-q9PrNxOI",
      "links": [
        [
          "can",
          "can"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(interrogative) (+ infinitive) can"
      ],
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        "interrogative"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He/She should stop doing that. It's going to wreck him/her.",
          "text": "Im fi tap it. It a guh mash 'im up.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Horse pon track cah gallop without money […]”\nMy children, you should seek and desire a lot of money\nA horse on a track can't race without money […]",
          "ref": "2013, Selvin McRae, The Guilty Truth Revealed, page 108",
          "text": "“Mi pickney unnu fi look n love nuff money",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "should"
      ],
      "id": "en-fi-jam-prep--GsfYqhV",
      "links": [
        [
          "should",
          "should"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(+ infinitive) should"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "with-infinitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fi"
}
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    "Jamaican Creole lemmas",
    "Jamaican Creole prepositions",
    "Jamaican Creole terms derived from English",
    "Jamaican Creole terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "expansion": "English for to",
      "name": "der"
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  "etymology_text": "From English for to.",
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      "expansion": "fi",
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    }
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        "Jamaican Creole terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "I have a headache. Can you give me something for the pain?",
          "text": "Mi head a hot mi. Yuh have supn can gimme fi it?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I asked myself how they could possibly think that the pastor's trial would be an appropriate event for children to see. […]",
          "ref": "2016, Sylvia Gilfillian, The Road to Timnath: Di Ruod Tu Timnat",
          "text": "A wanda how dem come fi tink dat di trial a di pastor is a fittin event fi a pikni witness. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "for",
          "for"
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        "Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "We want to know what's going on.",
          "text": "Wi wah fi know wah gwaan.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I looked up at the platform and saw about eight wooden chairs up there. I studied them to see which one I could move because some of them were made of solid wood and looked extremely heavy. […]",
          "ref": "2016, Sylvia Gilfillian, The Road to Timnath: Di Ruod Tu Timnat",
          "text": "Me look up to di platform and see about eight wooden chairs up deh. Me eyeball dem fi see which wan a dem me kuda move because some a dem carve outa solid wood and look well heavy. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to"
      ],
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          "to",
          "to"
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        "(+ infinitive) to"
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "How can they do a thing like that?",
          "text": "How dem fi do dat?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "How can you walk and eat, and throw litter in the street?\nI just can't understand how you can do it. […]",
          "ref": "2018, Shelley Sykes-Coley, Chat ’Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations",
          "text": "“How unnu fi walk an' nyam, an' litter di street?\nMi jus' cyaan andastan' how unno fi dweet. […]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "(+ infinitive) can"
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          "can",
          "can"
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        "(interrogative) (+ infinitive) can"
      ],
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        "interrogative"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He/She should stop doing that. It's going to wreck him/her.",
          "text": "Im fi tap it. It a guh mash 'im up.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Horse pon track cah gallop without money […]”\nMy children, you should seek and desire a lot of money\nA horse on a track can't race without money […]",
          "ref": "2013, Selvin McRae, The Guilty Truth Revealed, page 108",
          "text": "“Mi pickney unnu fi look n love nuff money",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "should"
      ],
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        [
          "should",
          "should"
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        "(+ infinitive) should"
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fi"
}

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