Love in Pidgin: How to Toast, Flirt, and Maybe Collect Waka
By: Chimdindu Ken-Anaukwu
Romance no dey hard for street if you sabi the language. Nigerian Pidgin get that sweet, playful vibe wey fit turn even ordinary compliment into correct cruise. Whether you wan toast, flirt, or stylishly break up, Pidgin go give you the perfect lines.
For romance matter, English sometimes dey too stiff. Yoruba fit sound deep, Igbo dey poetic, but Pidgin? Pidgin go straight to the point. Pidgin fit make love sound playful, real, and sweet. After all, if you fit crack person up while toasting, you don already enter half their heart.
The First Toast (aka “Shoot Your Shot”)
Imagine say you dey see fine babe for buka. She dey chop jollof rice with serious focus. You wan enter her lane:
Guy: “Babe, how far? You too fine, abeg, you fit gimme small space for your heart?”
Babe: [rolls eye but dey smile] “You don start… abeg comot.”
Guy: “No vex. Anytime I see your smile, my heart dey do jigibigi. If na exam, I go write your name full mark.”
👉 Translation: “I like you very much. You make me nervous, but in a good way.”
Pidgin Tip: When toasting in Pidgin, exaggeration dey sweet. Na the over-promise dey make the thing funny but romantic.
When Love Don Enter (aka “Sweet-Sweet Talk”)
Na so relationship start. Now na time to dey pepper each other small:
Guy: “Anytime I hear your voice, e be like say NEPA just bring light.”
Babe: “See this one. Na so so yarns you dey talk.”
Guy: “True! You be the Maggi wey dey sweet my soup.”
👉 Translation: Compliment in Pidgin is playful and creative. Always use food or everyday life example—because Naija people love gist that they can picture.
The Fight (aka “Wahala Small”)
Love no dey always smooth. Quarrel must enter:
Babe: “Why you no pick my call since yesterday?”
Guy: “Abeg, no vex. Na work hold me. I dey reason you steady.”
Babe: “Hmm. You sure say no be another babe you dey reason?”
Guy: “Na only you dey enter my eye.”
👉 Translation: “You’re the only one I find attractive.”
Pidgin Tip: “E dey enter my eye” = romantic way of saying “I like you.”
The Breakup (aka “Serving Breakfast”)
Sometimes, e no go work. And Naija Pidgin get some of the sharpest breakup lines:
“Babe, I no dey feel the vibes again.”
“I no do again.”
“Na me and you reach here. Make everybody dey alright.”
👉 Translation: “I don’t feel the connection anymore. Let’s part ways.”
Pidgin breakups dey straight to the point. No long grammar. Na why e dey pain but also dey funny sometimes.
Final Notes: The Romance & the Breakfast
Pidgin sweet for love because e mix cruise with truth. Whether na:
Toasting: “Your smile fit power NEPA.”
Flirting: “Na only you dey enter my eye.”
Breaking up: “I no do again.”
One thing dey sure: if you learn Pidgin, you fit gist for romance and you fit survive when breakfast show face.
🔥 Next time you dey toast or flirt, try drop one Pidgin line. Who knows? The babe fit laugh, and laughter na the fastest way enter heart.
Extra Yarn (because una go still ask)
How person fit talk “I love you” for Pidgin?
Easy. Just say: “I dey love you” or the more coded version: “Na only you dey enter my eye.”How you fit tell person you miss am?
Drop this one: “Since you comot, everywhere dry. I dey miss you scatter.”How you fit promise forever (even if e no sure)?
Try: “If na lie, make thunder fire me. Na only you I go marry.”
🚨 Warning: Use am at your own risk o. Thunder dey vex sometimes.How dem dey break up for Pidgin without wahala?
Just say: “I no do again, make we still be friends.”
(Spoiler: friendship dey hardly work sha.)How to flirt without stress?
Slide am like this: “Anytime I see you, my body dey sweet me pass gala wey dey hot.”