fa yu tan
Sranan Tongo
Sranan Tongo phrasebook
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Etymology
Literally "how do you abide?"
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faj.tãŋ/
Phrase
- how are you?
- ca. 1765, Pieter van Dyk, Nieuwe en nooit bevoorens geziene Onderwyzinge in het Bastert, of Neeger Engels, zoo als het zelve in de Hollandsze Colonien gebruikt word [New and unprecedented instruction in Bastard or Negro English, as it is used in the Dutch colonies], Frankfurt/Madrid: Iberoamericana, retrieved 20 March 2021:
- Odi mijn heer hoe fa joe tan gran tanki fo myn heer a komi ja fo loeke da pranasie wan trom.
- Good day, Sir, how are you? Many thanks to Sir, (that) he has come here to look at the plantation on this occasion.
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