"Finna" - what does this really mean?

[TurtleCrusher]

Ebonics just baffles me. It makes zero sense...

I can only assume that means "I am outfitting myself to perform the following action."

Am I right?


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[BoomerD]

"Finna" = "fixing to" = "preparing to" do something.

Or that's my guess based on working with ghetto rats over the years and trying )often unsuccessfully) to decipher their ebonics-speak.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Lemme axe you a question. Does it bother you too? I get pretty irritated with it.


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[The Boston Dangler]

in boston slang, finner (pronounced "finna") = fin = $5

 

[BoomerD]

in boston slang, finner (pronounced "finna") = fin = $5

That could be too...The $5 bill has been called a "fin" for many decades...and it's NOT just a Boston thing.


(although it's pretty old slang and not commonly used in most places anymore.)

 

[akahoovy]

Finna or funna

Contraction of fixing to and gonna.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Yo son, I'm axe you question. I'm finna get some chicken, want some?

 

[akahoovy]

Yo son, I'm axe you question. I'm finna get some chicken, want some?

I think O.J. wanted to axe his wife a question.

 

[Ichinisan]

"Finna" = "fixing to" = "preparing to" do something.

Or that's my guess based on working with ghetto rats over the years and trying )often unsuccessfully) to decipher their ebonics-speak.

This.

OP: What region did you grow up in?

 

[TurtleCrusher]

This.

OP: What region did you grow up in?

North Portland, Oregon.

Supposedly the ghetto of the city.

 

[Corporate Thug]

"Finna" = "fixing to" = "preparing to" do something.

Or that's my guess based on working with ghetto rats over the years and trying )often unsuccessfully) to decipher their ebonics-speak.

we have a winner...and its finnin

 

[WelshBloke]

Ebonics is just wierd. We get utterly baffled by it when we get some one speaking it heavily (luckily it doesn't happen often).

I remember once a nurse I was working with just kept asking the patent "You can speak English? Why do you speak in that silly way? WE... CANNOT... UNDERSTAND... YOU."

Was probably a good thing that the nurse was Nigerian 😛

Funnily enough the patient did then speak understandable English.

 

[RiDE]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMYR_qeyNc

 

[WelshBloke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMYR_qeyNc

😀

His expressions before hand and hers after are priceless.