ah
Naija
Etymology
Borrowed from English ah
Pronunciation
- ɑ
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 253
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 64
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1610
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 239
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Interjection
ah: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:1284)
- ah — (deuber__5039, __no translation__)
- Ah! — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__220, Ah !)
- discourse (frequency:20)
- Ah en! — (IBA_05_Cobbler_DG__24, Eh, eh ?)
- Ah oh. — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__84, Ahah oh.)
- dep (frequency:4)
- Con really see sey ah... — (NST_cleaned__34777, __no translation__)
- Ah in, in terms of this season sha. — (NST_cleaned__29926, __no translation__)
- advmod:emph (frequency:4)
- Ah o se o! — (WAZA_07_Self-Medication_T__157, Ah, thank you.)
- Ah o kwa you said! — (NST_cleaned__12013, __no translation__)
- parataxis:conj (frequency:4)
- Ah okay, — (NST_cleaned__13831, __no translation__)
- Ah abeg kai. — (NST_cleaned__34927, __no translation__)
- cc (frequency:2)
- Ah… — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__132, Ah...)
- Ah abi? — (LAG_08_Austin-And-Donald_DG__57, Ah, or, haha.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- ma 0.77 408, yi 0.68 263, laik 0.63 306, nova 0.63 157, deh 0.63 2926, okay 0.61 1302, haha 0.61 836, kam 0.61 182, fain 0.60 81
Antonyms
- ma 0.77 408, yi 0.68 263, laik 0.63 306, nova 0.63 157, deh 0.63 2926, okay 0.61 1302, haha 0.61 836, kam 0.61 182, fain 0.60 81
Translations
- English: no definition