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Papiamento words and phrases you may want to know!

(Oranjestad)—Aruba is a the morning, up to about ple in Papiamento. Just like
potting melt of different noon. Bon dia essentially Spanish, our yeses are “si”
nationalities, cultures and means good morning. The and our no’s are “no”. Pret-
languages. Primarily for word “bon” means “good”, ty easy right? If you want
this reason, the average and while “dia” does not to gain some extra points
Aruban can understand directly mean “morning” in from younger locals, you
and speak Dutch, Eng- English, it is used often to re- can also say “se”, which is
lish and Spanish relatively fer to the morning time. a more casual affirmative
well. However, as much as 2. Bon tardi. In the af- used mostly by the younger
we pride ourselves in be- ternoon to early evening generation. However, do
ing able to communicate Hi! Bye! are doing. hours, we use “bon tardi” to note: some older genera-
with almost everyone, we To be fair, there is no unique greet people, which means tions may find this improper
cherish our native tongue way to say “hello” in Pa- When we say goodbye, we “good afternoon”. “Tardi” and not respectful, so keep
Papiamento above all piamento. At least, not of- use the word “ayo” (not like actually comes from the that in mind.
else. Want to learn some ficially. We often just use the Ayo Rock Formation, word “atardi”, which direct-
common words in our lan- the English “hello” or “hey”, but also…kinda?). We may ly translates to “afternoon”. Thanks man…
guage? Here are a few ba- or Dutch “hallo” to greet also use “te oro”, which However, the shortened Lastly, a word that we can
sic words and phrases that someone. We do howev- means “see you later”. “tardi” is used to keep the also say more often is “dan-
can get you a hat tip from er, always follow it up with rhythm on the phrase. And ki”, which means literally
an Aruban. “con bay?” or “con ta?” Greetings during the day the same could be said for “thank you”. “Danki” is de-
Con bay is a shortened Most, if not all, languages our last greeting of the day. rived from the Dutch word
When you arrive at the air- version of “con ta bay?”, have different ways to 3. Bon nochi. You “bedankt”. Though we
port in Aruba, one of the which essentially means greet according to the time guessed it, “bon nochi” don’t really have a transla-
first words in Papiamento “how are you?” of day, and Papiamento is means “good night”. Just tion for “I appreciate it” in
you may encounter is “Bon no different. Since Papia- like “tardi”, “nochi” is actu- English, we do use “masha
bini.” Bon bini in Papiamen- The word “con” in Papia- mento is heavily influences ally the shortened version danki” to convey the mes-
to means welcome, and is mento means “how?” from Portuguese and Span- of the word “anochi”. sage. “Masha” means “a
probably the most famous and is pronounced with a ish, some of these phrases lot” or “very”, so “masha
Papiamento word for tour- rounder “o” sounds, like in may look very familiar. Yes…no…maybe? danki” means “thank you
ists. the English word “cone”. The affirmative and nega- very much”.
“Ta bay” refers to how you 1. Bon dia is used in tive expression is very sim-