after

Naija

Alternative forms

• afta

Etymology

From: English after

Pronunciation

• ˈæftər

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 97
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 138
• Frequency in raw corpus: 4369
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 86

Preposition

after: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:4380)

   After…  — (WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__113, After...)

   After...  — (NST_cleaned__36417, __no translation__)

2. dep (frequency:18)

   After all, .Chief!  — (deuber__4113, __no translation__)

   After all na so business be.  — (deuber__5991, __no translation__)

3. nsubj (frequency:7)

   After di first half end goalless wey di two teams no fit score.  — (bbc__97871, __no translation__)

   Dis one dey happen just 10 days after big bomb blast kill pass 350 people for di country.  — (bbc__42110, __no translation__)

4. obl:mod (frequency:7)

   Four years after, di same thing dey happen with Dapchi girls.  — (bbc__52897, __no translation__)

   Jenner bin no let pipo know say she get belle until she born, come tell pipo three day after.  — (bbc__60984, __no translation__)

5. compound:svc (frequency:4)

   After Jesus baptize finish, holy spirit lead am go desert.  — (jw__490, __no translation__)

   After the talk finish, e come give people chance to ask question.  — (jw__22827, __no translation__)

6. conj (frequency:3)

   But no mata who win, e be like say di stars go get plenty to talk pass dia acting and to jolly after but also mata wey concern dem and di world.  — (bbc__23159, __no translation__)

   Di Minister word dey come after di General Secretary of di GNASSM wey be Godwin Armah, tell tori peopel say government must remove di ban to stop palava wey di miners go face.  — (bbc__31806, __no translation__)

7. conj:dicto (frequency:3)

   So after, apart from di diet now, exercise na anoder thing.  — (WAZL_06_Na-Your-Health_DG__275, So, after.... apart from the diet, exercise is another thing.)

   After, if you finish your first tenure, and people talk sey dem enjoy wetin you dey do, na im dey fit give you chance make you do anoder four years.  — (JOS_32_School-And-Party-Politics_DG__250, After... if you finish your first tenure, and people said that they enjoy what you are doing, is when they can give you chance to let you go for another four years.)

8. cc (frequency:2)

   Nigeria, before and after  — (jw__26830, __no translation__)

   If e tay too much, di first election go happen for six month after di date wey dis gumbody agreement get power to begin and after, every year wey pass.  — (gumbody__157, __no translation__)

9. advmod (frequency:2)

   Even after, di lawmakers get till Monday make dem come up with budget because dem no go really feel di bite of di shutdown till dat time.  — (bbc__47373, __no translation__)

   Di first tin na to cari your feem go cinema den after, you go release am on DVD or oda online platforms wey pipo fit download and watch, na dis way sure pass for di investment.  — (bbc__1508, __no translation__)

10. discourse (frequency:2)

    Like, after…  — (KAD_11_Edikaikong-Gbegiri_M__92, Like, after...)

    Ah see dis girl wey like, like, like eh after after two!  — (NST_cleaned__11641, __no translation__)

Antonyms

• when 0.67 7140, before 0.64 5895, afta 0.63 3843, later 0.61 1056, until 0.58 772, sotay 0.49 416, finally 0.48 265, since 0.46 2896, last 0.45 3032

Translations

• English: after