hear
Naija
Etymology
Borrowed from English hear
Pronunciation
- íà
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 116
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 121
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1994
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 190
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Verb
hear: to understand -- Make person feel sound for ear
- aux (frequency:8)
- na only you fit hear. — (jw__48772, __no translation__)
- De no go allow dem to hear am. — (IBA_18_Money-Wahala_M__29, They will not allow them to hear it.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- understand 0.58 1148,
Antonyms
- forget 0.57 672,
Translations
- English: to understand, to perceive sound through the ear