Local Drinks

1. Abeg, I wan drink zobo.

   Please, I want to drink zobo

   Usage

   A cold red drink brewed from hibiscus flowers, often flavoured with ginger or fruit

   Grammar Note

   Composed from common words by regular grammar; not a fixed phrase. The food or item name stays in its local form.

2. Kunu dey here?

   Do you have kunu here?

   Usage

   A lightly sweet drink of the north made from millet, sorghum or maize

   Grammar Note

   Composed from common words by regular grammar; not a fixed phrase. The food or item name stays in its local form.

3. Pure water dey?

   Is there sachet water?

   Usage

   Drinking water sold in small plastic sachets is called pure water; it is cheap on the street

   Grammar Note

   In Pidgin pure water means sachet drinking water. dey marks that something is there.

4. Abeg, give me cold pure water.

   Please give me cold sachet water

   Usage

   Handy on a hot day when buying from a street seller

   Grammar Note

   Composed from common words by regular grammar; not a fixed phrase. The food or item name stays in its local form.

5. Abeg, I wan drink coconut water.

   Please, I want to drink coconut water

   Usage

   Sold at beaches and markets straight from the nut

   Grammar Note

   Composed from common words by regular grammar; not a fixed phrase. The food or item name stays in its local form.

6. Palm wine dey?

   Is there palm wine?

   Usage

   Palm sap fermented into a mild drink; easier to find in the south than in the north

   Grammar Note

   Composed from common words by regular grammar; not a fixed phrase. The food or item name stays in its local form.

7. Wetin be burukutu?

   What is burukutu?

   Usage

   A drink brewed from sorghum or millet; it is alcoholic, so ask before you try it

   Grammar Note

   Composed from common words by regular grammar; not a fixed phrase. The food or item name stays in its local form.

8. Ogogoro strong well-well.

   Ogogoro is very strong

   Usage

   A strong spirit distilled from palm wine; a warning to go easy

   Grammar Note

   Composed from common words by regular grammar; not a fixed phrase. The food or item name stays in its local form.

9. Abeg, give me tigernut drink.

   Please give me tigernut drink

   Usage

   A sweet drink made from ground tigernut tubers

   Grammar Note

   Composed from common words by regular grammar; not a fixed phrase. The food or item name stays in its local form.

10. Abeg, give me one cold Guinness.

    Please give me one cold Guinness

    Usage

    A beer widely drunk in Nigeria; sales are limited in many northern states

    Grammar Note

    Composed from common words by regular grammar; not a fixed phrase. The food or item name stays in its local form.

11. Wetin you get for soft drink?

    Which soft drinks do you have?

    Usage

    Asks what drinks a shop has; get here means have

    Grammar Note

    Composed from common words by regular grammar; not a fixed phrase. The food or item name stays in its local form.

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