Difference between revisions of "ah"

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==Naija==
 
==Naija==
 
===Etymology===
 
===Etymology===
Borrowed from English ah
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From: English ''ah''
  
 
===Pronunciation===
 
===Pronunciation===

Revision as of 20:02, 26 February 2021

Naija

Etymology

From: English ah

Pronunciation

  • ɑ

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 253
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 64
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 1610
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 239

The word is used more orally than in written texts.


Interjection

ah: no definition -- Definition in Naija?


  1. - (frequency:1284)
    ah  — (deuber__5039, __no translation__)
    Ah!  — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__220, Ah !)
  2. discourse (frequency:20)
    Ah en!  — (IBA_05_Cobbler_DG__24, Eh, eh ?)
    Ah oh.  — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__84, Ahah oh.)
  3. dep (frequency:4)
    Con really see sey ah...  — (NST_cleaned__34777, __no translation__)
    Ah in, in terms of this season sha.  — (NST_cleaned__29926, __no translation__)
  4. advmod:emph (frequency:4)
    Ah o se o!  — (WAZA_07_Self-Medication_T__157, Ah, thank you.)
    Ah o kwa you said!  — (NST_cleaned__12013, __no translation__)
  5. parataxis:conj (frequency:4)
    Ah okay,  — (NST_cleaned__13831, __no translation__)
    Ah abeg kai.  — (NST_cleaned__34927, __no translation__)
  6. cc (frequency:2)
    Ah  — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__132, Ah...)
    Ah abi?  — (LAG_08_Austin-And-Donald_DG__57, Ah, or, haha.)

Derived forms

Synonyms

  • ma 0.77 408, yi 0.68 263, laik 0.63 306, nova 0.63 157, deh 0.63 2926, okay 0.61 1302, haha 0.61 836, kam 0.61 182, fain 0.60 81

Antonyms

  • ma 0.77 408, yi 0.68 263, laik 0.63 306, nova 0.63 157, deh 0.63 2926, okay 0.61 1302, haha 0.61 836, kam 0.61 182, fain 0.60 81

Translations

  • English: no definition