{"id":1916147,"date":"2025-01-11T17:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T17:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/?p=1916147"},"modified":"2025-01-13T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T09:21:07","slug":"chavacano-phrases-and-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/chavacano-phrases-and-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavacano Phrases and Idiomatic Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greetings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/hello-in-chavacano-or-chabacano-is-buenas\/#respond&amp;gsc.tab=0\">Buenas!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/enbuenamente-man\/\">Enbuenamente man<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/quetal\/\">Que tal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Idiomatic Expressions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cuchara mal lavao &#8211; a nosy person<\/li>\n<li>Falta tornillo &#8211; a person who is foolish<\/li>\n<li>Largo ngusu &#8211; upset<\/li>\n<li>Ni siquiera \/ Ni kisyera &#8211; not even<\/li>\n<li>No hay claro<\/li>\n<li>No hay nada &#8211; Nothing at all<\/li>\n<li>No hay sirve &#8211; no purpose<\/li>\n<li>Pensaba yo&#8230; &#8211; <em>I thought<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Que seo? &#8211; <em>Do I know? &#8211; has<\/em> the same meaning of\u00a0Tagalog&#8217;s &#8220;<em>malay ko<\/em>?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Que seo! &#8211;<em> I don&#8217;t know anymore!;<\/em>\u00a0<em>I don&#8217;t know!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ta mira yo&#8230; &#8211; I think; Sa tingin ko<\/li>\n<li>\u2022Tampa-tampa &#8211; pretend<\/li>\n<li>Tanga cielo &#8211;<\/li>\n<li>Utuk bulinao &#8211; someone who is a know-it-all<\/li>\n<li>Volao pensamiento; volao &#8211; absent-minded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Greetings Buenas! Enbuenamente man Que tal Idiomatic Expressions Cuchara mal lavao &#8211; a nosy person Falta tornillo &#8211; a person who is foolish Largo ngusu &#8211; upset Ni siquiera \/ Ni kisyera &#8211; not even No hay claro No hay nada &#8211; Nothing at all No hay sirve &#8211; no purpose Pensaba yo&#8230; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamboanga.com\/chavacano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}