all

Naija

Etymology

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

Definition

We use am show sey people or ting wey do someting include everyone or everyting.

Predeterminer

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.)

Pronoun

1. All of dem na…  — (ENU_25_Boss-And-Apprentice_DG__202, All of them are...)
2. All of us don…  — (ABJ_GWA_13_Small-Jobs_DG__38, All of us have ...)

Adverb

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.)

Related forms

• first of all

1. 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.)
2. 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.)

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• least 0.54 687.

Translations

• English: everything.