con

Naija

Alternative forms

• come 0.61 17524, just 0.61 5577, naim 0.61 566, meh 0.54 796, go 0.53 63583, am 0.52 25602, mey 0.50 183, when 0.50 7140, door 0.49 242

Etymology

Borrowed from English con

Pronunciation

• kɔ́n

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1125
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 16
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2923
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 136

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Auxiliary

con: aspect marker -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   As e complain sey di food no good, I no con buy am again.  — (As he/she complained that the food is not good, I then didn't buy it again.)

2. - (frequency:2802)

   Con...  — (BEN_02_Andrew-Lifestory_MG__30, Then...)

   Con go…  — (JOS_28_Exams_DG__159, Then go...)

3. nsubj (frequency:24)

   I con…  — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__151, I then...)

   I con...  — (ABJ_GWA_06_Ugo-Lifestory_MG__7, I now...)

4. mark-nsubj (frequency:5)

   What if you con, your Papa con loss all di whole money.  — (NST_cleaned__14073, __no translation__)

   So before de con, when de con shine deir light, de con see sey civil defence dey dere,  — (NST_cleaned__1503, __no translation__)

5. conj:dicto (frequency:5)

   Na so dat one con, e con enter im head,  — (ONI_18a_Kanpatakwa_M__81, That's how that one, it got to her head...)

   If I con, if de con resume lectures, you wan do photocopy, you wan buy handout, you wan do test.  — (KAD_08_Kasu-Student-Interaction_DG__125, If I then...if they then resume lectures, you want to do photocopy; you want to buy handout; you want to do test.)

6. cc-nsubj (frequency:3)

   And I con...  — (NST_cleaned__32776, __no translation__)

   But dis age, age, age limit (because some man need respect) con… ,  — (BEN_21_Love-Matters_DG__53, But this age... age... age limit has... because some men need respect...)

7. aux-nsubj (frequency:3)

   You go con...  — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__78, Then they'll...)

   How much we go con?  — (KAD_08_Kasu-Student-Interaction_DG__198, How much we will then...)

8. obj (frequency:2)

   When I don get one better somewhere, I go come back, con con carasa. (JOS_29_He-Loves-French_DG__157, when I have gotten one good  — (thing) somewhere, I will come back, then come and complete it.)

   I think two, two don dey work, one dey serve, di other one con dey secondary school, junior secondary school, JSS two.  — (BEN_19a_Man-Must-Wack_DG__63, I think two, two have started working, one is doing his NYSC, the other one is still in secondary school, in Junior Secondary School, JSS two.)

9. mark (frequency:2)

   Hm wetin dere be sey ehn di sharing, e, e con be like, like sey na lesson sharing.  — (WAZK_11_Chiagozies-Life-Story_M__88, Hm, what is there is that ehn, the sharing , it it's now like like saying it is a lesson sharing.)

   E just be like sey ehn when con, when you enter BRT bus, population too plenty, and na only one conductor na im dey inside.  — (NST_cleaned__15276, __no translation__)

10. advmod-nsubj (frequency:2)

    Na you, na you you just con , you just…  — (NST_cleaned__31682, __no translation__)

    I no con, I no con dey put mind for oder, di people wey dey dat our church.  — (NST_cleaned__23275, __no translation__)

11. mark-nsubj-obj (frequency:2)

    Ahn as I con here, dem con dey owe me me!  — (NST_cleaned__1241, __no translation__)

    No wonder di stubborness just dey add, and as you con dey university, e con tripple.  — (JOS_26_Small-Talk_DG__292, No wonder the stuborness is increasing and as you are now in University, it then trippled.)

Synonyms

• come 0.61 17524, just 0.61 5577, naim 0.61 566, meh 0.54 796, go 0.53 63583, am 0.52 25602, mey 0.50 183, when 0.50 7140, door 0.49 242

Antonyms

• come 0.61 17524, just 0.61 5577, naim 0.61 566, meh 0.54 796, go 0.53 63583, am 0.52 25602, mey 0.50 183, when 0.50 7140, door 0.49 242

Translations

• English: aspect marker