Key Verbs for Haitian French Creole

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Translate to French Creole:

to embark, load, board

A

mete abo

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Translate to French Creole:

to give

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bay

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Translate to French Creole:

to show

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montre

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Translate to French Creole:

to attack

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atake

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Translate to French Creole:

to authorize

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bay pemisyon

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Translate to French Creole:

to be quiet

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rete trankil

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Translate to French Creole:

to buy

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achte

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Translate to French Creole:

to call, name

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fe-apel

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Translate to French Creole:

to clean

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netwaye

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Translate to French Creole:

to close

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femen

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Translate to French Creole:

to coerce, force

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fose

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Translate to French Creole:

to come

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vini

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Translate to French Creole:

to comfort

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konsole

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Translate to French Creole:

to cook

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kwit-manje, fe-manje

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Translate to French Creole:

to cut

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koupe

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Translate to French Creole:

to die

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mouri

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Translate to French Creole:

to draw, sketch

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fe-desen

Q

Translate to French Creole:

to drop, fall

A

tonbe

Q

Translate to French Creole:

to enforce

A

ranfose

Q

Translate to French Creole:

to finish

A

fini

Q

Translate to French Creole:

to get up

A

leve

Q

Translate to French Creole:

to get, receive

A

pran

Q

Translate to French Creole:

to give

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bay

Q

Translate to French Creole:

to go

A

ale/prale

# Translate to French Creole: to have

genyen

# Translate to French Creole: to hide

kache

# Translate to French Creole: to hit

frape

# Translate to French Creole: to kill

touye

# Translate to French Creole: to know

konnen

# Translate to French Creole: to leave, depart

pati

# Translate to French Creole: to lie (not truth)

manti

# Translate to French Creole: to lie down

kouche

# Translate to French Creole: to look

gade

# Translate to French Creole: to obey

obeyi

# Translate to French Creole: to run

kouri

# Translate to French Creole: to shout, yell, scream

kriye/ rele

# Translate to French Creole: to sit

chita

# Translate to French Creole: to smoke

fimen

# Translate to French Creole: to stop

rete

# Translate to French Creole: to surround

antoure

# Translate to French Creole: to trust

fe-konfyans

# Translate to French Creole: to sleep

dòmi