copy

Naija

Etymology

From: English copy

Pronunciation

• kɔ̀pí

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 258
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1113

Noun

• Na someting wey dem make wey resemble anoder gan.

• I beg you know where I keep dat copy wey you make of your NYSC certificate give me yesterday?.  — (NSC_Legbeti_20201. Please do you know where I kept the photocopy of your NYSC certificate that you gave me yesterday?.)
• INEC say na copy of collated results from di immediate lower level of collation na im dem go use.  — (bbc__57294. INEC said it is a copy of the collated lower-level result that will be used.)
• Afta im win for 2015, im bin tell one tori pesin for abroad say: I hope you get copy of di election results.  — (bbc__41953. After he won in 2015, he told the foreign correspondent that he hopes he gets a copy of the election results.)

Derived forms

• copycopy, photocopy,

Synonyms

• photocopy

Translations

• English: duplicate

Verb

• Na to make someting make e be like anoder gangan.

1. Tunde copy for di exam.  — (Egbokhare2020. Tunde cheated in the exam.)

   Make we copy Jesus,  — (jw__22863. Let us be like Jesus.)

   Copy dis link  — (bbc__26204, __no translation__)

   Copy Jesus Example  — (jw__6108, __no translation__)

2. mark-obj (frequency:19)

   Who Gaius be, and why we need to copy im example?  — (jw__46006, __no translation__)

   One way na to copy how Jehovah take dey do things.  — (jw__38249, __no translation__)

3. nsubj-obj (frequency:6)

to cheat in an exam

1. Jesus copy im Father example.  — (jw__19972, __no translation__)

   This is Nigeria: Why Falz copy America rapper Childish Gambino  — (bbc__93701, __no translation__)

2. advcl-obj (frequency:6)

   We dey use hand copy am so that we fit use am for our study.  — (jw__25484, __no translation__)

   How you go take copy Jehovah example when person do wetin vex you?  — (jw__15505, __no translation__)

3. aux-mark-obj (frequency:6)

   And e make dem to fit copy im character.  — (jw__34087, __no translation__)

   Yes we go fit because Jehovah make us to fit dey copy im character.  — (jw__39690, __no translation__)

4. - (frequency:5)

   You know sey we si~, we like copy, copy.  — (NST_cleaned__7509, __no translation__)

   Which one of dem you go like copy, and why?  — (jw__45713, __no translation__)

5. aux-obj (frequency:5)

   Dey copy Jehovah,  — (jw__6947, __no translation__)

   And if we try dey copy im example,  — (jw__1418, __no translation__)

6. mark (frequency:3)

   You know sey we si~, we like copy, copy.  — (WAZK_13_On-Pidgin_DG__81, You know that we si... we like copying.)

   Which person example better pass to copy if we want endure and wetin help am fit do this one?  — (jw__45811, __no translation__)

7. cc-obj (frequency:2)

   That one go make you trust am, learn from am, and copy im better example.  — (jw__22935, __no translation__)

   So, as long as we remain with Jesus and copy e example, we too go get joy.  — (jw__21714, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• share 0.70 642, guide 0.67 138, consider 0.64 234, choose 0.61 1099, teach 0.60 1674, expose 0.58 120, download 0.58 144, praise 0.58 576, read 0.57 1737

Antonyms

• share 0.70 642, guide 0.67 138, consider 0.64 234, choose 0.61 1099, teach 0.60 1674, expose 0.58 120, download 0.58 144, praise 0.58 576, read 0.57 1737

Translations

• English: to cheat in an exam