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Naija

Etymology

Borrowed from English all

Pronunciation

• ɔl

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 362
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 51
• Frequency in raw corpus: 8280
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 47

Usage

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Definition

We use am show number of people or ting wey do someting plus including di one wey dey yarn.

Determiner

Ok do dis one free, collect money for all dis one.  — (IBA_05_Cobbler_DG__128, Okay, do this one for free, take money for all these ones.)

case-cc (frequency:4)

Pronoun

All of dem na…  — (ENU_25_Boss-And-Apprentice_DG__202, All of them are...)

All of us don…  — (ABJ_GWA_13_Small-Jobs_DG__38, All of us have ...)

Adverb

nmod (frequency:654)

And to crown am all, you go put your bitterleaf inside [...].  — (PRT_01_Banga-Soup_MG__10, And to top it all, you'll put your bitterleaf inside.)

Derived forms

• at all

E no cost at all lai, lai.  — (JOS_20_Beauty-Of-Jos_MG__20, It's not expensive at all, never.)

• first of all

First of all I go mix sulphric acid wit Tezapen.  — (LAG_37_Soap-Making_MG__44, First of all, I will mix sulfuric acid with Texapon.)

But first of all, you get to change your means of earning.  — (WAZP_03_Education_MG__57, But first of all, you have to change your means of making money.)

• altogeda

De don do am altogeda  — {{{3}}}

• altrough

Im dey waka past altrough di day  — {{{3}}}

Synonyms

• some 0.47 8816, many 0.39 4476, plenty 0.39 2558

Antonyms

• least 0.54 687,

Translations

• English: all (everything)