drive
Naija
Alternative forms
- pack 0.74 339, thief 0.71 301, ride 0.70 78, hide 0.70 417, flow 0.69 125, pursue 0.67 426, fetch 0.67 49, smoke 0.67 235, dig 0.67 102
Etymology
Borrowed from English drive
Pronunciation
- dráìv
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 18
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 500
- Frequency in raw corpus: 381
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 817
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
drive: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- compound-nmod:poss (frequency:7)
- Things wey fit cause low sperm count Tiger nut drink fit wake up your sex drive - Nutritionist — (bbc__93659, __no translation__)
- How I take stop masturbation for one year Tiger nut drink fit wake up your sex drive - Nutritionist — (bbc__56266, __no translation__)
- compound-flat-nmod:poss (frequency:4)
- Tiger nut drink fit wake up your sex drive - Nutritionist — (bbc__93996, __no translation__)
- Oral sex fit give you cancer Tiger nut drink fit wake up your sex drive - Nutritionist — (bbc__101796, __no translation__)
- - (frequency:3)
- Tiger nut drink fit wake up your sex drive - Nutritionist Success for Ghana penis surgery — (bbc__93998, __no translation__)
- Na join one of the biggest radio station for Nigeria for 2011 where e dey do the drive time show from Monday to Friday 4pm to 10pm. — (ja102__3480, __no translation__)
- det (frequency:2)
- With di top performers dem, dat drive dey come within demsef. — (bbc__11476, __no translation__)
- Deh driver weh deh kill even though e di work for one of de agencies for Bamenda bin di drive na private car. — (bbc__28056, __no translation__)
- det-nmod (frequency:2)
- Di town na few minutes drive from di city centre but e dey completely cut off from di beauty and swag wey pipo know for Abuja. — (bbc__39090, __no translation__)
- Other Dis days e dey common to see dirty heaps for roadside inside Lagos, wey be Nigeria economic capital Di drive along di Lagos -Badagry expressway from Alakija, reach Orile for di popular Lagos city for Nigeria dey full of bad smell from dirty wey heap full road; — (bbc__79430, __no translation__)
Derived forms
- Di man wey dey give me motor drive no gree give me again. — (bbc__58453, __no translation__)
- e bring paper bag of dirty come outside put am for middle of road enter motor drive comot — (deuber__2403, __no translation__)* sex drive
- Things wey fit cause low sperm count Tiger nut drink fit wake up your sex drive - Nutritionist — (bbc__93659, __no translation__)
- How I take stop masturbation for one year Tiger nut drink fit wake up your sex drive - Nutritionist — (bbc__56266, __no translation__)* sex drive Nutritionist
- Tiger nut drink fit wake up your sex drive - Nutritionist — (bbc__93996, __no translation__)
- Oral sex fit give you cancer Tiger nut drink fit wake up your sex drive - Nutritionist — (bbc__101796, __no translation__)
Synonymes
- pack 0.74 339, thief 0.71 301, ride 0.70 78, hide 0.70 417, flow 0.69 125, pursue 0.67 426, fetch 0.67 49, smoke 0.67 235, dig 0.67 102
Antonymes
- pack 0.74 339, thief 0.71 301, ride 0.70 78, hide 0.70 417, flow 0.69 125, pursue 0.67 426, fetch 0.67 49, smoke 0.67 235, dig 0.67 102
Translations
- English: no definition
Verb
drive: to chase away -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- I go drive am comot. — (I will chase him away.)
- mark-obj (frequency:18)
- Rescue workers even free di people wey drive dem. — (bbc__65418, __no translation__)
- Police say dem no use real bullet to drive people. — (bbc__82603, __no translation__)
- - (frequency:16)
- The sister sabi drive. — (jw__30139, __no translation__)
- And if you know sey you want drive, make you no drink. — (IBA_13_Road-Safety_M__105, And if you know that you want to drive, you should not drink.)
- obj (frequency:15)
- Drive dem? — (deuber__6665, __no translation__)
- Na Pidgin drive di story. — (WAZK_06_Prince-Daniel_M__39, It's Pidgin that drove the story.)
- aux-obj (frequency:12)
- Na you go drive di car. — (IBA_13_Road-Safety_M__97, It is you that will drive the car.)
- Na anoder person, dey drive di motor. — (WAZA_05_Big-Mo_MG__58, Someone else drives the car.)
- mark (frequency:9)
- E teach us how to drive. — (jw__30140, __no translation__)
- Saudi Arabia wan allow women to drive — (bbc__87103, __no translation__)
- aux-nsubj (frequency:7)
- she dey drive. — (bbc__34264, __no translation__)
- Im dey drive, im dey behind me. — (NST_cleaned__25373, __no translation__)
- aux (frequency:5)
- Na me dey drive. — (JOS_40_Travelling-On-Nigerian-Roads_DG__37, It is me that is driving.)
- No be siddon you siddon dey drive, no be siddon I siddon dey follow you? — (NST_cleaned__26440, __no translation__)
- aux-mark (frequency:3)
- Continue to dey drive, anyhow e be you go reach where you dey go. — (jw__6073, __no translation__)
- Even me as I dey now, I dey drink sometimes, but no be like sey I go drink, con drive. — (IBA_13_Road-Safety_M__92, Even me, as I am, sometimes I drink, but not that I will drink and then drive.)
- advmod (frequency:2)
- If you go drink, no drive, if you go drive, no drink! — (NST_cleaned__39903, __no translation__)
- So I dey advice sha, if you, can, since you too sabi drive so try. — (NST_cleaned__3445, __no translation__)
- cc-obj (frequency:2)
- Militants wey deo style like say dem be UN peacekeepers - dem wear di blue helmet and drive vehicle wey get di UN logo - attack two station near di airport for Timbuktu. — (bbc__67204, __no translation__)
- Lagos state police Command also sama warning give all road users say make dem no use dis grace period for operation velvet take dey drive anyhow for roads as e be say na time for dem to get dia vehicle documents and di correct permits togeda.Dem add say di Command go continue to make sure say pipo obey di laws wey say make dem no drive for BRT lanes, park dia motor anyhow dey cause hold up and drive one way. — (bbc__63032, __no translation__)
- advcl-aux (frequency:2)
- Before you go go home sef, if dey go dey drive dey go, tipper... — (NST_cleaned__35779, __no translation__)
- Before you go go home sef, if dey go dey drive dey go, tipper... about fifty tippers wit sand go dey follow you. — (ONI_07_Dis-Year-Na-My-Year_MG__58, In fact, before you go home, if you will be driving down, tippers... about fifty tipper loads of sand will follow you.)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- pack 0.74 339, thief 0.71 301, ride 0.70 78, hide 0.70 417, flow 0.69 125, pursue 0.67 426, fetch 0.67 49, smoke 0.67 235, dig 0.67 102
Antonymes
- pack 0.74 339, thief 0.71 301, ride 0.70 78, hide 0.70 417, flow 0.69 125, pursue 0.67 426, fetch 0.67 49, smoke 0.67 235, dig 0.67 102
Translations
- English: to chase away