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English
Noun
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Jamaican Creole
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Pronunciation
Noun
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. […]
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Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Noun
bredda m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
bredda f
Swedish
Etymology
Verb
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
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
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