good

Naija

Alternative forms

• correct 0.71 1344, easy 0.68 779, important 0.61 886, better 0.60 3084, possible 0.59 318, sense 0.59 1009, hard 0.59 1094, bad 0.58 2448, beta 0.56 773

Etymology

Borrowed from English good

Pronunciation

• gʊd

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 133
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 113
• Frequency in raw corpus: 3189
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 119

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Adjective

good: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:1471)

   Good.  — (JOS_33_Changing-Nigeria_DG__173, Good.)

   Good!  — (BEN_15a_Theology-Demons_DG__69, Good !)

2. advmod (frequency:135)

   No good.  — (ENU_29_Personality-Show-On-Computer_DG__171, Not appropriate.)

   Very good.  — (JOS_29_He-Loves-French_DG__122, Very good.)

3. obl:arg (frequency:62)

   Brexit dey good for Africa.  — (bbc__747, __no translation__)

   Whale meat dey good for you?  — (bbc__99634, __no translation__)

4. nsubj (frequency:22)

   E good.  — (IBA_17_Julie-And-Danile_DG__149, It's good.)

   Dat one good?  — (ONI_25_Nigeria-Don-Wowo_DG__119, Is that one good ?)

5. conj (frequency:19)

   Na which business good and bad get?  — (jw__49237, __no translation__)

   Weda dat na good or bad sign na anoda mata.  — (bbc__40929, __no translation__)

6. obl:mod (frequency:18)

   Dat is good.  — (KAD_19_Kabiru-Gymnasium_DG__147, That is good.)

   Is not good.  — (LAG_33_Buhari-Recession_M__193, It's not good.)

7. mark (frequency:17)

   E get anywhere wey good?  — (JOS_40_Travelling-On-Nigerian-Roads_DG__55, Is there any place that is good ?)

   Make sure sey you do something wey good.  — (LAG_03_Lagos-Life_M__67, Make sure that you do something that is good.)

8. case (frequency:15)

   Im say Annan na guiding force for good.  — (bbc__33995, __no translation__)

   Make we, make we pray so dat meh dis ting change for good.  — (JOS_11_Nigeria-Political-Issues_DG__184, Let's... let's pray so that this thing will change for better.)

9. advcl (frequency:15)

   You are good to go.  — (KAN_02_Girls-Life-In-Kano_DG__94, That's all. You are good to go.)

   Many of dem no dey good to show.  — (bbc__91149, __no translation__)

10. cc (frequency:10)

    Bad come easy and good come hard,  — (jw__3538, __no translation__)

    Everything wey e dey do dey holy, clean and good.  — (jw__13152, __no translation__)

11. ccomp (frequency:7)

    de no go torture am, give am punishment wey no dey good make dem give person.  — (hildrights__316, __no translation__)

    Anoda pesin comment say, e no dey good make you shift pipo wey suppose get your back for election go one side.  — (bbc__15587, __no translation__)

12. det (frequency:5)

    So but di good is, good X.  — (LAG_03_Lagos-Life_M__63, so but the good is... good X.)

    Do wetin e suppose to do, do di, do di good, do di good at time.  — (NST_cleaned__9251, __no translation__)

13. dep (frequency:4)

    For some side, di water no dey good at all  — (bbc__52356, __no translation__)

    In under two weeks Manu Garba and Nduka Ugbade will have a team good e ...  — (brila__856, __no translation__)

14. det-nmod (frequency:2)

    Cake dey represent di good of love 3. Ice Cream  — (bbc__24191, __no translation__)

    When you work with it you will see di good of it.  — (KAD_20_School-And-Working-Experience_M__36, When you work with it, you will see the good of it.)

Synonyms

• correct 0.71 1344, easy 0.68 779, important 0.61 886, better 0.60 3084, possible 0.59 318, sense 0.59 1009, hard 0.59 1094, bad 0.58 2448, beta 0.56 773

Antonyms

• correct 0.71 1344, easy 0.68 779, important 0.61 886, better 0.60 3084, possible 0.59 318, sense 0.59 1009, hard 0.59 1094, bad 0.58 2448, beta 0.56 773

Translations

• English: no definition