"kaa" meaning in Jamaican Creole

See kaa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Conjunction

Head templates: {{head|jam|conjunction}} kaa
  1. because (for the reason that)
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  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "2": "conjunction"
      },
      "expansion": "kaa",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 16 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He [John the Baptist] said: \"Atone for your sins, because the day will soon come when Heaven will completely rule over the world!\"",
          "ref": "2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 3:2:",
          "text": "Im se, “Ton we fram unu sin, kaa di die suun kom wen evn a-go ruul uova di worl iina evri wie!”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "because (for the reason that)"
      ],
      "id": "en-kaa-jam-conj-WCAkRAen",
      "links": [
        [
          "because",
          "because"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaa"
}
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  "categories": [
    "Pages with 16 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "yo:Body parts",
    "yo:Vehicles"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "2": "conjunction"
      },
      "expansion": "kaa",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Jamaican Creole conjunctions",
        "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
        "Jamaican Creole lemmas",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 16 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He [John the Baptist] said: \"Atone for your sins, because the day will soon come when Heaven will completely rule over the world!\"",
          "ref": "2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 3:2:",
          "text": "Im se, “Ton we fram unu sin, kaa di die suun kom wen evn a-go ruul uova di worl iina evri wie!”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "because (for the reason that)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "because",
          "because"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaa"
}

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