big

Naija

Etymology

From: English big

Pronunciation

• bɪg

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 74
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 176
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1927
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 196

Adjective

big: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:1635)

   Big one!  — (KAD_20_School-And-Working-Experience_M__69, Big one !)

   Ah big time!  — (IBA_09_Leon-And-Amos_DG__32, Ah ! Seriously !)

2. advmod (frequency:40)

   na really big shame  — (deuber__3281, __no translation__)

   My hands dey too big  — (bbc__69257, __no translation__)

3. conj (frequency:10)

   Noise of big and small children for open place and for secret place.  — (katakata__886, __no translation__)

   Big and even small, small businesses all open for business yesterday.  — (bbc__50466, __no translation__)

4. mark (frequency:10)

   Even im name, 'Trump' mean something wey big  — (bbc__47535, __no translation__)

   Dem ask am sey: “Who really big pass for the Kingdom wey dey heaven?”— Matthew 18:1 .  — (jw__9305, __no translation__)

5. obl:mod (frequency:7)

   Dem big, dem dey bark, and dem ready to bite us.  — (jw__8522, __no translation__)

   So anybody wey bring body down like this small pikin, na im big pass for the Kingdom of God wey dey heaven;  — (jw__28337, __no translation__)

6. det (frequency:4)

   Isiewu, one plate (dat's di big plate) is eight hundred naira,  — (JOS_41_Buying-Drinks_DG__47, Goat head soup, one plate, the big plate is eight hundred naira.)

   Sometimes now, some English, de no understand because of di big, big ehm… ,  — (WAZK_13_On-Pidgin_DG__107, Sometimes, some English, you don't understand because of the ambiguous ehm...)

7. obj (frequency:4)

   Big one!  — (NST_cleaned__21201, __no translation__)

   Big awuf.  — (IBA_24_Mummy-Debbie_DG__221, very cheap.)

8. case (frequency:4)

   Even as heaven big reach dey show us sey God get power well well.— Read Romans 1:20 .  — (jw__27409, __no translation__)

   she too as she dey order for dose big, big tings, she dey hope on sey base on di way wey I kack mysef...  — (NST_cleaned__35586, __no translation__)

9. nsubj (frequency:4)

   my head big.  — (NST_cleaned__41857, __no translation__)

   My bottle big.  — (IBA_24_Mummy-Debbie_DG__64, My bottle is big.)

10. amod (frequency:3)

    Shebi na dey, just to make your to dey big?  — (LAG_17_Food-On-Campus_DG__125, Is it not to make your stomach big. ?)

    Plenti big big don show for social media to troway twale give di late singer.  — (bbc__81919, __no translation__)

11. cc (frequency:2)

    ...small or big chops...  — (bbc__9578, __no translation__)

    But from Aboula e tori, pipo de see say fight for small and big fish dey inside di mata, like dolphin weh e enter inside shark-killer fish dia world.  — (bbc__22801, __no translation__)

12. conj-det (frequency:2)

    E talk sey: ‘See the big and fine city wey I don build.  — (jw__724, __no translation__)

    Since the wall for Jerusalem don scatter finish, you for dey think of the big and strong wall wey dey Babylon?  — (jw__14975, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• plenty 0.45 2558, main 0.44 934, small 0.44 3132, rich 0.43 226, one 0.42 23691, fine 0.41 836, ogbonge 0.40 908, anoder 0.40 349, popular 0.40 649

Antonyms

• plenty 0.45 2558, main 0.44 934, small 0.44 3132, rich 0.43 226, one 0.42 23691, fine 0.41 836, ogbonge 0.40 908, anoder 0.40 349, popular 0.40 649

Translations

• English: no definition