Kriol Kwiz: bifo

Iya ba didei Kriol Kwesjin / Here's today's Kriol Kwis:

Kriol Kwis! Hau yu spelim 'before' la Kriol? / How do you spell 'before' in Kriol? #KriolKwiz

— Kriol Kantri (@KriolKantri) January 10, 2017

Im lilbit isiwan dijan iya maitbi. Sambala olpipul maidi tok 'bipo' bat nat rili. Maidi la Weib Hil eriya thei tok laithad du. Bat la Ropa en Barangga eriya, ebribodi jis tok 'bifo' en yu spilim laithad gin.

This might have been a bit easy. Maybe some elderly people say 'bipo', but it'd be rare. Maybe in Gurindji Kriol or around Wave Hill they may also say 'bipo'. But east of Katherine, everyone just says 'bifo' - pronounced very similar to English.

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Iya sambala sentens gada det wed bifo / Here are some sentences with the word bifo in it:

1. Shoum alabat wotkain keib en wani blekbala bin yusu bifo ba fait

Show them what caves are like and what Aboriginal people used to fight before (i.e. in the old days)

2. Raitap iya la ol steishin yustu bi ol kemp bifo

Right up here at the old station used to be the old camp (i.e. place we lived) before.

3. Imin finish bifo mi, wan yiya bifo mi

He finished [school] before me, a year before than me.

Dis thribala sentens gaman burru Minyerri (1), Bulmun (2) en Ropa (3) / These sentences are from Minyerri (#1), Bulman (#2) and Ngukurr (#3), via the CoEDL Kriol Proujek

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Kriol Kwiz: bangk

Iya ba didei Kriol Kwesjin / Here's today's Kriol Kwis:

Kriol Kwis! Wanim min 'bangk'? / What does 'bangk' mean? #KriolKwiz

— Kriol Kantri (@KriolKantri) January 4, 2017

Bala! Ouni sambala bin sabi dis iya. Bangk im weya yu silip wen yu silip la brabli bed, nomo la grawun. La Inggalish, wi raidim 'bunk'.

Detmob najamob, wi raidim beingk.

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Poor things! Only some of you knew this one. Bangk is the thing you sleep on when you're not sleeping on the ground - a bed with a frame. It's pronounced the same as bunk - the English word it is derived from.

The other options - bank - that word is written beingk in Kriol.

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Kriol Kwiz: anga

Iya ba didei Kriol Kwesjin / Here's today's Kriol Kwis:

Kriol Kwiz! Wani thei tok ba kemp la Numbulwar? / What do they call houses in Numbulwar? #KriolKwiz

— Kriol Kantri (@KriolKantri) May 5, 2016

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Dijan iya bin trikiwan maitbi. Oni wanbala bin sabi det raitwan ensa: Ola Numbulwar mob, alabat tok 'anga' ba kemp. 

Bla det najalot ensa:

Awuj yu irrim samtaim la najalot pleis, or maitbi thei gulum 'awus'. Bat Numbulwar mob oldei tok anga. Anga, im Nunggubuyu wed bat im jump la Kriol la Numbulwar du.

Hampi im olwan ting. Yu kaan gulum brabli awus 'hampi'. En steishin - ai bin jis migimap tharran. 

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This was a tricky one I think. Only one person got it right: in Numbulwar, they say anga for house/camp.

As for the other answers:

Awuj (from 'house') is sometimes heard in other places. Or they might pronounce it 'awus'. But in Numbulwar, they usually say anga. Anga is a Nunggubuyu word but it has made its way into Kriol in Numbulwar too.

Hampi (i.e. 'humpy') is an old thing. You can't refer to an actual house as a 'hampi'. And steishin (i.e. 'station') - I just made that one up.

Kriol Kwiz: baitim

Iya ba didei Kriol Kwesjin / Here's today's Kriol Kwis:

Kriol Kwis! Wanim min 'baitim'? / What does 'baitim' mean? #KriolKwiz

— Kriol Kantri (@KriolKantri) April 8, 2016

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Yumob bin ol pudum raitwan ensa: baitim min 'bite'. Gudwan! Bla detlot najawan ensa...

Ba 'bait', mela raidim beit. Bla 'buy', yu garra tok baiyim. En 'tease', im tisim. 

Wen yu luk det -im ending la beb, mela tok in trensitib beb - im weya yu dum samting la natha ting o pesin.

Dijan bin tu isi ba yumob maidi! Ai garra trai meigi det nekswan mowa hadwan...

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Everyone got it right: baitim means 'bite'. Well done! Regarding the other answers...

For 'bait', you right it like this: beit. For 'buy', you use the verb baiyim. And 'tease' is tisim. 

Anytime you see the -im ending on a verb, it's known as a transitive verb - it's when the action involves someone/something doing something to someone/something.

I think this one was a little easy! I'll try to make the next one harder...

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Kriol Kwiz: Ai bin gu

Iya ba didei Kriol Kwesjin / Here's today's Kriol Kwis:

Kriol Kwis! Hau yu pudum 'I went' la Kriol? / How do you say 'I went' in Kriol? #KriolKwiz

— Kriol Kantri (@KriolKantri) April 6, 2016

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Detmob hu bin pudum ai bin gu bin rait. Bla detlot najawan ensa...

Went im nomo enijing la Kriol.

Mi bin gu im saun fani du. Yu kaan pudum mi en bin tugetha lagijat.

En natha ting... det lil sentens, ai bin gu, im mowa ba Ropamob ba tok lagijat. Najamob from Beswik en Barangga, alabat tok ai bin go (go, nomo gu).

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The people who said ai bin gu were right. Regarding the other answers...

Went is not a Kriol word.

Mi bin gu also sounds odd. You can't put mi and bin together like that.

And another point of note... that little sentence, ai bin gu, it leans towards the Roper dialect of Kriol. People from Barunga and Beswick say, ai bin go (with go, not gu).

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imin

Ingglish mining / English meaning:
he/she/it did/was

Mowa infameishin / notes:
Dijan wed im rili tubala wed mijimet: 'im' en 'bin' / This is actually a contraction of 'im' and 'bin', where 'bin' marks past tense.

Hau yu ridim brom Ingglish / How to read it in English:
IM-in

Langa sentens / Example sentence:
1. Imin lugubat dubala / He/she/it looked around for them (two)
2. Imin digidawei det pein / It took away the pain
3. Aa imin meigi dilbak det ti / Ah, he/she/it made the tea spill

grajim

Ingglish mining / English meaning:
dig, dig something up

Hau yu ridim brom Ingglish / How to read it in English:
GRAH-jim

Langa sentens / Example sentence:
1. No shabul dumaji bla grajim / Because we don't have a shovel to dig it (up with).
2. Wanim det pudeita thei oldei grajimbat ja? / What's that (bush) potato they're always digging (up) there?
3. Thei garra grajim grawun jeya / They're going to dig the earth there.