too

Naija

Alternative forms

• well-well 0.53 994, enough 0.51 309, very 0.48 1537, why 0.47 4261, sometimes 0.47 599, light 0.44 655, plenty 0.44 2558, sha 0.43 392, sef 0.43 1597

Etymology

Borrowed from English too

Pronunciation

• tu

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 145
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 102
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2977
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 132

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Adverb

too: sey one ting join another ting, when something plenty, to be like something or somebody

1. sey one ting join another ting

   Animals have right too really.  — (ENU_30_Animals-Rights-In-Usa_T__111, Animals have right too, really.)

   E go do house chores too o,  — (BEN_30_Husband-Criteria_DG__173, He will do the house chores too.)

2. when something plenty

   After this brother advice Nikolai, e no too tey, police people come call am go their headquarter for Kant.  — (jw__941, __After this brother advised Nikolai, it didn't take long before the police called him to their headquarters. __)

   Too long.  — (KAD_04_Indian-Movies_DG__51, Too long ?)

   It's just dat mstchew I no sa~, I no too, too sabi dance.  — (NST_cleaned__14547, __It's just that I don't really know how to dance__)

3. to be like something or somebody

   E too be like im papa  — (bbc__94659, __He looks like his father very much__)

Translations

• English: also, too