bredda

English

Noun

bredda (plural breddas or bredren)

  1. (Jamaica, colloquial) brother
    • 2011 September 24, “90-Year-Old Needs Help To Finish House”, in The Gleaner‎:
      "mi need the room dat im in, but mi can't throw him outside because is mi bredda"

Anagrams

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /brɛda/

Noun

bredda (plural bredda dem, quantified bredda)

  1. 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, →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 […]
  2. (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, →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. […]

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

bredda m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of bredd

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bredda f

  1. definite singular of bredd

Swedish

Etymology

bred +‎ -a

Verb

bredda (present breddar, preterite breddade, supine breddat, imperative bredda)

  1. to widen (make wider)
    bredda en öppning
    widen an opening
  2. to broaden (increase in extent or comprehensiveness)
    bredda sin kunskap
    broaden one's knowledge

Conjugation
Conjugation of bredda (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive bredda breddas
Supine breddat breddats
Imperative bredda —
Imper. plural1 bredden —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative breddar breddade breddas breddades
Ind. plural1 bredda breddade breddas breddades
Subjunctive2 bredde breddade breddes breddades
Participles
Present participle breddande
Past participle breddad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

References
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