bad
Naija
Alternative forms
- good 0.58 3676, normal 0.57 424, kain 0.57 1748, wicked 0.57 272, damage 0.54 182, pain 0.54 627, fear 0.53 1340, kind 0.51 2368, wrong 0.51 281
Etymology
Borrowed from English bad
Pronunciation
- bæd
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 44
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 272
- Frequency in raw corpus: 2210
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 178
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Adjective
bad: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:1725)
- Bad boy! — (ENU_23_Chizom-Talk_DG__23, Bad boy.)
- It'S bad. — (NST_cleaned__16340, __no translation__)
- advmod (frequency:68)
- Dat's so bad. — (deuber__4240, __no translation__)
- Na very bad tin. — (IBA_13_Road-Safety_M__24, It is a very bad thing.)
- cc (frequency:31)
- Rader, tings dey dey bad to bad. — (JOS_14_Chibozor-View-About-Nigeria_MG__62, Instead, things have gone from bad to worse.)
- Weda dat na good or bad sign na anoda mata. — (bbc__40929, __no translation__)
- obl:mod (frequency:19)
- It'S bad. — (PRT_06_Port-Harcourt_DG__116, It is bad.)
- Dem dey bad for di health? — (bbc__28718, __no translation__)
- obl:arg (frequency:14)
- Parboiled rice dey bad for di body? — (bbc__80440, __no translation__)
- White meat like chicken dey bad for your health - New report You wan live long? — (bbc__100085, __no translation__)
- mark (frequency:13)
- Why I go let meh you dey chop someting wey bad like dat? — (IBA_07_Na-Love_DG__284, How could I let you eat something so bad?)
- Aya say deh go start with cases dem weh bad, de chairman tok. — (bbc__27486, __no translation__)
- nsubj (frequency:11)
- Di road bad. — (JOS_40_Travelling-On-Nigerian-Roads_DG__52, The road is bad.)
- all of dem bad — (deuber__5104, __no translation__)
- advcl (frequency:10)
- Bad as di situation be, Olajide no dey give up. — (bbc__18938, __no translation__)
- E also deny say things for Uganda just dey bad dey go; — (bbc__43887, __no translation__)
- amod (frequency:8)
- Question: Why things for this world just dey bad more more? — (jw__30836, __no translation__)
- Na bad things full this world wey Satan dey control, and e dey bad more more. — (jw__25404, __no translation__)
- conj (frequency:7)
- Rader, tings dey dey bad to bad. — (JOS_14_Chibozor-View-About-Nigeria_MG__62, Instead, things have gone from bad to worse.)
- Dis Ararume now wey people dey talk sey bad, bad, Ararume fit enter now, be person, be better person. — (NST_cleaned__5344, __no translation__)
- case (frequency:7)
- We open dat church make people forget, meh de protect from bad people, make God bless dem. — (BEN_15b_Theology-Offerings_DG__17, The church was established to make people forget... give them protection from evil people and so that God will bless them.)
- Cameroon get torture centre for separatists - HRW Rights groups say situation for human rights for Cameroon over bad — (bbc__24459, __no translation__)
- det (frequency:3)
- All di bad, bad tings wey I dey do before, I do dem no more. — (NST_cleaned__39677, __no translation__)
- Just you do one ting, im go remind you all di bad, bad tings wey you don dey do. — (NST_cleaned__13801, __no translation__)
- ccomp (frequency:2)
- ''Di reason why we do di test na because di quality of education wey dey our schools bad. — (bbc__8284, __no translation__)
- Tori pipo Daily Mail report say, dem see di deadi bodi of di 30-year-old woman for di ground floor of di apartment for St Petersburg, on di night of July 5 during one party wey neighbours say bad gan. — (bbc__95532, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- good 0.58 3676, normal 0.57 424, kain 0.57 1748, wicked 0.57 272, damage 0.54 182, pain 0.54 627, fear 0.53 1340, kind 0.51 2368, wrong 0.51 281
Antonymes
- good 0.58 3676, normal 0.57 424, kain 0.57 1748, wicked 0.57 272, damage 0.54 182, pain 0.54 627, fear 0.53 1340, kind 0.51 2368, wrong 0.51 281
Translations
- English: no definition