about

Naija

Alternative forms

• sey 0.41 21386, follow 0.40 3872, word 0.38 889, bible 0.37 3843, affect 0.36 1028, listen 0.35 505, share 0.34 642, reason 0.32 1045, concern 0.32 1183

Etymology

Borrowed from English ?

Pronunciation

• əˈbaʊt

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 114
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 125
• Frequency in raw corpus: 6819
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 61

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Preposition

about: -- Definition in Naija?

1. -

   6859  — no translation

   About Us  — (jw__234, __no translation__)

   talk about.  — (NST_cleaned__41165, __no translation__)

2. cc

   3  — no translation

   No forget dat girl, aba, aba, about girl.  — (LAG_08_Austin-And-Donald_DG__83, Do not forget that girl...abou...abou...about the girl.)

   Poverty wey tie wrapper dey increase reach six pipo every minute or about 3.2 million everi year.  — (bbc__82964, __no translation__)

3. dep

   31  — no translation

   wetin you see about di--oh boy all dat one na story  — (deuber__1606, __no translation__)

   Wetin I hear today about di, dat one really shock me.  — (NST_cleaned__8576, __no translation__)

4. conj

   1  — no translation

   Ehm okay make you tell us about yourself, about eh like…  — (ABJ_INF_06_Marriage-Counselling_DG__149, E, okay, tell us about yourself, about er like...)

5. nsubj

   2  — no translation

   Young women for di state bin don demonstrate about dis killikilli go police headquarters on Friday , come demand among oda tins say make goment close any hotels wey dis kain tin happun.  — (bbc__101926, __no translation__)

   About rumour say na wetin candidate score inside di exam, na im go determine whether na university di pesin go enter or polytechnic, Benjamin say When we enter go do policy meeting, we go discuss dat one.  — (bbc__11205, __no translation__)

6. advcl

   2  — no translation

   For di summit, oga Buhari tok about plenty mata dem like poverty, xenophobia plus climate change wey dey related to di topic of di event.  — (bbc__51370, __no translation__)

   BBC tori person Chris Ewokor report say many of di refugees for now dey live among residents of some communities inside Ikom and Ogoja area wey dey about 297 kilometres north of di port city of Calabar.  — (bbc__18713, __no translation__)

7. ccomp

   1  — no translation

   E say everi Nigerian life dey important especially young ones wey dey about to start dia own lives and careers and dis na loss wey dem for fit avoid.  — (bbc__45452, __no translation__)

8. advmod

   20  — no translation

   Go, and know what is all about.  — (NST_cleaned__36532, __no translation__)

   Na im di programe dey all about.  — (BEN_21_Love-Matters_DG__5, That's what the programe is all about.)

9. cc-dep

   1  — no translation

   Bangladesh Cricket Board tok-tok pesin Jalal Yunus tok say di team bin go mosque and about to enta inside wen di incident happun.  — (bbc__19040, __no translation__)

10. obl:mod

    1  — no translation

    Mary open one container or small flask wey dem put about “327g of original perfume oil wey dey scent.” This na special oil wey dey expensive.  — (jw__24272, __no translation__)

11. conj-dep

    1  — no translation

    Mr Messi na, as a matter of fact, public figure wey everybodi know, wey dem dey see for television and wey dem dey always talk about for television or ontop radio, di court bin talk  — (bbc__4852, __no translation__)

12. discourse

    4  — no translation

    about eh...  — (NST_cleaned__40751, __no translation__)

    Den talking about ehn… ,  — (NST_cleaned__3069, __no translation__)

13. advmod-cop

    1  — no translation

    Go, and know what is all about.  — (WAZP_04_Ponzi-Scheme_MG__34, Go, and find out what it's all about.)

14. conj:dicto

    2  — no translation

    I think about, na Ebonyi state wey you dey talk.  — (ONI_25_Nigeria-Don-Wowo_DG__131, I think, it's about, it's Ebonyi state you are talking about)

    As I grow reach, my mama still dey tell story about, about me like sey I be small pikin of yesterday,  — (ABJ_GWA_05_Tailoring_DG__74, As I have grown, my mother is still telling stories about me as if I am a little child of yesterday.)

15. advmod:emph

    2  — no translation

    Na di money we dey talk about o!  — (IBA_25_Buying-Indomie_DG__88, It is the money we are talking about !)

    Abeg who be di Barrabbas wey dose people dey shout about sef?  — (IBA_42_Barrabas_DG__8, Please, who is even the Barrabbas that those people are shouting about ?)

16. conj:dicto-dep

    2  — no translation

    My sister, haha okay, how do you prepare about di~, dis Easter?  — (LAG_06_Easter-Preparation_DG__1, My sister, haha, okay, how are you preparing for this...this Easter ?)

    Eh wetin prompt me, dey give me joy about eh di, di work wey I dey do be sey e dey make me happy.  — (KAD_30_Education_M__24, Eh, what prompted me, and is giving me joy about eh, the work that I do is that it makes me happy.)

17. advmod-discourse

    1  — no translation

    Eh di way dem dey play eh right about now for inside eh Gombe, eh sey de go try to improve, but e no dey easy.  — (NST_cleaned__25063, __no translation__)

18. advmod-cop-nsubj

    1  — no translation

    So na everyting we get to do with us as Naija people na im di issue be all about.  — (WAZL_11_Kabuchi_DG__41, So it's everything that has to do with us as Nigerians, That's what the show is about.)

Derived forms

1. Proverbs about

   If you be wife, dey respect your husband well well and dey carry yourself down for am and make you try be like the better wife wey Proverbs 31:10 -31talk about.  — (jw__16141, __no translation__)

Synonymes

• sey 0.41 21386, follow 0.40 3872, word 0.38 889, bible 0.37 3843, affect 0.36 1028, listen 0.35 505, share 0.34 642, reason 0.32 1045, concern 0.32 1183

Antonymes

• sey 0.41 21386, follow 0.40 3872, word 0.38 889, bible 0.37 3843, affect 0.36 1028, listen 0.35 505, share 0.34 642, reason 0.32 1045, concern 0.32 1183

Translations

• English: ?