borrow
Naija
Etymology
From: English borrow
Pronunciation
- bɔ́rò
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 15
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 557
- Frequency in raw corpus: 144
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1640
Verb
- Na to take someting from person or somewhere to return back later.
- I tell am to borrow me money make I take buy handout. — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. I asked him to lend me money for handout.)
- Okay make I go borrow money, — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__121, Okay, let me go and borrow money.)
- Na to give person something to wey the person go return back later.
- I borrow am money. — (Egbokhare_2020. I lent him some money.)
- Ghana president say na Africa suppose dey borrow oda kontris money, no be say de continent go dey collect. — (bbc__54060, The President of Ghana says Africa should lend other continents money rather than borrow from them.)
- Di issue na because of N40 wey e tok say e borrow im late friend and as e come collect im money na im fight start wey lead to di death but investigations dey continue. — (bbc__7896. The issue is that the fight that led to the death of his friend broke out over the 40naira he lent him. investigation is however ongoing.)
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Synonyms
Translations
- English: lend, borrow