ovastan

Jamaican for "understand". Used exclusively by jamaicans, unlike other jamaican english words.

"Aight, wog 1 fred"
"Don u ovastan man, i dun wanna talk to yuh anymoh"
"I don't geh woh der is to ovastan"

Translation:

"Alright, how are you fred? What's up?"
"Don't yuou understand, i don't want to talk to you anymore!"
"I don't get what there is to understand"

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