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Jamaican Patois · Questions and responses

Zeen

Cool / understood

Computer-generated pronunciation guide, not a native-speaker recording.

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What “Zeen” means

Zeen is a variant of seen and means "cool", "okay" or "understood". It can agree with something, or, tagged onto the end of a sentence, ask whether the other person understands.

Examples

Zeen man

Okay, understood.

Wi a lef early, zeen?

We're leaving early, you understand?

How to use it

Very casual and popular with younger speakers. As a tag question it seeks acknowledgement more than agreement.

Where usage varies

You'll also hear "Yuh zimi?", a squeezed form of "you see me?", meaning "do you get what I mean?".