big

Naija

Alternative forms

• 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

Etymology

Borrowed 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

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

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