toh

Naija

Alternative forms

• mstchew 0.81 423, aha 0.81 300, okay 0.81 1302, hm 0.79 1176, yes 0.77 760, haha 0.75 836, ehen 0.73 871, bros 0.73 72, oh 0.71 337

Etymology

Borrowed from English toh

Pronunciation

• toh*

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 88
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 152
• Frequency in raw corpus: 307
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 963

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Interjection

toh: no definition, alright -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:262)

   Toh  — (JOS_28_Exams_DG__2, Toh !)

   Toh.  — (JOS_30_Northern-Skirmishes_DG__71, Okay.)

2. discourse (frequency:6)

   Ah toh!  — (JOS_03_Red-Hair-Facebook_DG__108, Ah !)

   Toh now…  — (NST_cleaned__2125, __no translation__)

3. obj (frequency:5)

   Toh bros, how we go do am?  — (NST_cleaned__11883, __no translation__)

   Toh everything wey I just, wey I dey talk now,  — (NST_cleaned__23389, __no translation__)

4. ccomp (frequency:2)

   Toh I no get money, I con s-...  — (NST_cleaned__33629, __no translation__)

   Toh we just dey, we just dey feel nothing, we just dey.  — (NST_cleaned__7086, __no translation__)

5. advmod:emph (frequency:2)

   Toh sha, im promise us sey im go do someting for Pleateu State.  — (JOS_11_Nigeria-Political-Issues_DG__6, Toh, he promised us that he will do something in Plateau State.)

   Toh now, she don show you sey she no love you, na your friend she love.  — (NST_cleaned__21731, __no translation__)

Synonymes

• mstchew 0.81 423, aha 0.81 300, okay 0.81 1302, hm 0.79 1176, yes 0.77 760, haha 0.75 836, ehen 0.73 871, bros 0.73 72, oh 0.71 337

Antonymes

• mstchew 0.81 423, aha 0.81 300, okay 0.81 1302, hm 0.79 1176, yes 0.77 760, haha 0.75 836, ehen 0.73 871, bros 0.73 72, oh 0.71 337

Translations

• English: no definition, alright