Meaning
A tag added to the end of a statement meaning 'you know', 'you hear', or 'isn't that so' — softening it, driving it home, or seeking the listener's agreement. 'Mi tired, enuh' means 'I'm tired, you know', with a note of appeal or emphasis, and 'watch yuhself, enuh' turns a warning warm and personal. One of the small but constant grammatical seasonings of Jamaican speech, it colours the tone of a sentence, drawing the listener in and asking, gently, that they take the point.
Examples
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Mi love yuh, enuh.
I love you, you know.
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It nuh easy, enuh.
It isn't easy, you know.
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Yuh haffi careful, enuh.
You have to be careful, you hear.
Origin
A worn-down form of 'you know', reduced to a single tag particle at the end of a sentence.
How it’s used
Very common in speech, warming or reinforcing what was said. Placed at the end, never the start.