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African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action. quotations examples
I'm like, "Well I'm fina catch the bus home," 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.
2008, Jodie Miller, quoting "Lisa", Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
"I'm fina make some money off yo' ass."
2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost.....Now Found, page 8
Then [the girls] come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.
2013, Jody Miller, quoting "Shauntell", “Case study: African American girls, urban inequality”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, page 267
"I'm fina beat this bitch ass!"
2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, page 182