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Revision as of 11:48, 14 May 2021
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From: English better
Pronunciation
- bɛ̀tá
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 84
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 163
- Frequency in raw corpus: 2664
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 154
Adjective
- Sey someting or somewhere good pass.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
- English: better, good
Verb
Modal
- Better dey chop better food. — (IBA_09_Leon-And-Amos_DG__241, You better eat nutritious food.)
- Wetin e talk make me remember wetin my mama dey tell us when we small, e sey: ‘E better to chop vegetable for where love dey.’” So make you no dey worry yourself. — (jw__8409, What he said made me recall what my mother told me as a child that it is preferable to eat vegetable where there is love.)
Translation
English: better