us
Naija
Alternative forms
- we 0.55 25536, them 0.52 973, ourself 0.49 247, am 0.49 25602, elders 0.48 396, brothers 0.48 1147, theirself 0.47 250, our 0.47 5912, jehovah 0.46 9478
Etymology
Borrowed from English us
Pronunciation
- ˈjuˈɛs
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 259
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 63
- Frequency in raw corpus: 6714
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 63
The word is used equally in written texts and orally.
Pronoun
- Make person dey talk about imsef join oder people.
- Sey everyday, dis, as we dey waka, everyday, God just dey dere for us kampe, — (KAD_23_Christians-In-Kaduna_DG__153, That everyday, this... as we are walking everyday, God is just there for us, steadfastly.)
- So di ting be sey many of us, Nigerians don suffer to make dis country go where e go. — (ABJ_INF_12_Evictions_MG__58, So, the thing is, many of us Nigerians have suffered to bring this country to where it is.)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: us