Meaning
'You are going to' — a run-together of 'yuh a go', marking what someone is about to or will do. 'Yaago love it' means you're going to love it, and 'yaago see' is you'll see. It fuses the pronoun 'yuh', the progressive marker 'a', and the future 'go' into a single compressed word, a fine example of how quick Jamaican speech runs several small grammatical words into one. It does the everyday work of the English future 'you're going to', in its worn-down, rapid-fire spoken form.
Examples
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Yaago come a di party tonight?
Are you going to come to the party tonight?
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Yaago love dis food, trust mi.
You're going to love this food, trust me.
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If yuh nuh study, yaago fail.
If you don't study, you're going to fail.
Origin
A contraction of 'yuh a go' (you + progressive 'a' + 'go') → 'yaago'; shows how Patois fuses particles into single words.
How it’s used
Means 'you are going to'; a fused future construction. Compare 'ago' (a-go), 'gwaan'.