bad

Naija

Alternative forms

• baddo

Etymology

From English bad

Pronunciation

• bâd

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 44
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 272
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2210
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 178

Adjective

• Someting wey no good.

1. Bad boy!  — (ENU_23_Chizom-Talk_DG__23, Bad boy.)
2. Na very bad tin.  — (IBA_13_Road-Safety_M__24, It is a very bad thing.)
3. All di bad, bad tings wey I dey do before, I do dem no more.  — (NST, All the bad things that I do, I do them no more.)

• (Dem dey use am as slang) for person/someting wey good/correct.

1. Hey! di guy na bad guy o.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, The guy is a good/correct guy)

Transitive Verb

1. Parboiled rice dey bad for di body?  — (bbc__80440, __no translation__)
2. White meat like chicken dey bad for your health.  — (bbc__100085, White meat like chicken is bad for your health.)
3. Di motor bad, na 2020 model.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, The motor is fantastic,it's 2020 model.)

Serial Verb

1. My motor bad past im own.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, My car is better than his own.)

Relateded forms

• badbelle, baddest, baddo, badeye, badhead

Synonyms

• good 0.58 3676

Translations

• English: not good, good