unnu
Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
- unu
Etymology
From Igbo únù.
Pronoun
unnu
- (plural) you
- If unnu know weh mi a go tru, unnu will understand.
- If you all knew what I was going through, you'd understand.
- 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 353:
- How unu find them? Guilty or innocent?
- (plural) your
- A because unnu a young girl unnu nuh wah breastfeed unnu baby.
- It's because you're all young women that you don't want to breastfeed your babies.
Usage notes
- Jamaican Creole marks a distinction between singular yu and plural unu.
Related terms
- mi
- yuh
- im
- har
- shi
- wi
- dem
References
- Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, ISBN 9789766401450, page 577