abeg
Naija
Etymology
From: English pronoun I and beg
Pronunciation
- àbɛ̂g
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 41
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 278
- Frequency in raw corpus: 303
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 977
Adverb
Na word wey de dey take tell person with sweet mouth make e do someting.
- Abeg, help me draw di picture. — (Egbokhare_ 2021, Please, help me draw the picture.)
beg:
- Abeg o! — (ENU_03_School-Fees-And-French-Exams_DG__121, Please o !)
- Abeg o. — (LAG_33_Buhari-Recession_M__76, Please.)
- discourse (frequency:4)
- Eh abeg. — (IBA_42_Barrabas_DG__52, Eh ! please.)
- Ah abeg kai. — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__113, Please.)
- vocative (frequency:2)
- God abeg. — (ENU_33_A-Beg_MG__7, God, please!)
- Na im, wey we go God, abeg! — (ENU_33_A-Beg_MG__89, That's why we go begging God.)
- advcl:relcl (frequency:2)
- I tell Jehovah sey: “If the dog dem reach where we dey, abeg, make we quick die!” When the dog reach where we dey, dem come stop. — (jw__8524, __no translation__)
- Jesus ask the papa sey: “Since when this thing start?” E answer Jesus sey: “Na from small pikin and many times, e go push am enter fire and water make e die.” The man come dey beg: “If you go fit do anything, abeg, pity for us and help us.”— Mark 9:21, 22 . — (jw__3047, __no translation__)
Related forms
Translations
- English: please