Here is a list of the phrases we covered in this week’s little Jèrriais lesson on BBC Jersey (Monday after 6pm – note new time). We revised weather vocab from last week and added these new phrases:
- i’ vente à êcôner un boeu = it’s very windy (it’s blowing to dehorn a bull)
- i’ bliâse = it’s foggy/misty
- d’la bliâse brousseuse = drizzly fog
- eune bliâse à coper au couté = fog you could cut with a knife
- aller sept noeuds dans la bliâse = go like the clappers (seven knots in the fog)
- j’sis dans la bliâse = I haven’t the foggiest
- il en dêtchèrque = it’s chucking it down
- lé solé lit = the sun’s shining
- i’ fait fraid = it’s cold
- l’aube gélée = frost
Click on linked words for a sound clip!
Note that letters â, ê, î, ô, û, and ŷ are pronounced long in Jèrriais.