borrow
Naija
Alternative forms
- donate 0.75 97, collect 0.70 1883, owe 0.65 178, buy 0.63 1711, pay 0.61 2348, invest 0.60 99, abroad 0.60 214, dash 0.59 118, offer 0.58 120
Etymology
etymology:English ' borrow'
Pronunciation
- bɔ́roò
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 15
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 557
- Frequency in raw corpus: 144
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1640
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Verb
borrow: lend, borrow -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- I borrow am money. — (I lent him some money.)
- obj (frequency:18)
- Okay make I go borrow money, — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__121, Okay, let me go and borrow money.)
- How you dey take borrow money? — (bbc__56677, __no translation__)
- mark-obj (frequency:9)
- To borrow me, de no go fit borrow me another line again o. — (ENU_35_To-Become-A-Man_M__33, to borrow me, they will not be able to borrow me another line again.)
- NEW: Union say Nigeria no get 6000 teachers to borrow Liberia — (bbc__69432, __no translation__)
- - (frequency:8)
- Na borrow borrow. — (katakata__939, __no translation__)
- Di megaproject go cost $5.8 billion - 85% of dat money na borrow money from China. — (bbc__36114, __no translation__)
- compound:svc (frequency:4)
- Na borrow borrow. — (katakata__939, __no translation__)
- Why Africa dey rush China Buhari borrow borrow don cari Nigeria gbese reach N23 trillion — (bbc__100270, __no translation__)
- aux-obj (frequency:3)
- Ghana president say na Africa suppose dey borrow oda kontris money, no be say continent go dey collect. — (bbc__54060, __no translation__)
- Proverbs 19:17 talk sey: ‘Anybody wey dey do good to poor person dey borrow Jehovah something, and E go pay am back for wetin e do.’ Bible talk for here sey Jehovah know about all the good things wey person do to help poor person. — (jw__18106, __no translation__)
- advmod:emph (frequency:3)
- Na una borrow now, — (JOS_30_Northern-Skirmishes_DG__96, It is you who borrowed now.)
- Sey dis money wey be sey de wan borrow so, sey de wan use am take enhance di production of rice ehn... — (NST_cleaned__37000, __no translation__)
- aux-mark-obj (frequency:3)
- Ontop di plenti money wey di state don borrow Oyetola wey hope to continue wey di present govnor Rauf Aregbesola stop, say to borrow na normal tin. — (bbc__79120, __no translation__)
- And for inside page four, we Acting-Presido, Osibanjo, e don dey ginger now sey make dem approve so dat dem go fit borrow one point five billion dollars. — (WAZA_04_Press-Review_DG__79, And in page four, Our acting President, Osibanjo, he is pushing that they should approve so that they can borrow one point five billion dollars.)
- aux (frequency:2)
- High debt to GDP ratio mean say e go hard for di kontri to pay dem debt if dem owe pass dem dey borrow. — (bbc__34077, __no translation__)
- Some market woman dem weh deh di sell for Food Market don loss plenti moni, part weh na borrow deh borrow. — (bbc__91081, __no translation__)
- nsubj-obj (frequency:2)
- Nigerian youths no dey too young to run again Buhari borrow borrow don cari Nigeria gbese reach N23 trillion — (bbc__74573, __no translation__)
- Di issue na because of N40 wey e tok say e borrow im late friend and as e come collect im money na im fight start wey lead to di death but investigations dey continue. — (bbc__7896, __no translation__)
- mark-nsubj (frequency:2)
- But de thing pipo dem di calculate sotey na de big moni weh government borrow, 75 billion from China government for buy de notebook dem. — (bbc__22000, __no translation__)
- or take do slave, or tings wey be like sey e slave, like scale or to traffic di pikin, to hold pikin because of money wey person borrow, or to byforce work ; — (hildrights__269, __no translation__)
- obj-obl:arg (frequency:2)
- Obaseki tok say im dey discuss dis borrow borrow idea wit Nigeria goment officials for di National Commission for Museums and Monuments wey dey in charge of dis kain mata. — (bbc__75982, __no translation__)
- Oga Falana, send dis message thru one letter wey carry di date of February 5, go land di table of wi naija ministry for money-mata, wey ein take tell di ministry say, make ein forget ein plan of how wi contri-naija dey plan to go won borrow $3.5 billion from di world bank and di African Development bank. — (ja102__3975, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- donate 0.75 97, collect 0.70 1883, owe 0.65 178, buy 0.63 1711, pay 0.61 2348, invest 0.60 99, abroad 0.60 214, dash 0.59 118, offer 0.58 120
Antonymes
- donate 0.75 97, collect 0.70 1883, owe 0.65 178, buy 0.63 1711, pay 0.61 2348, invest 0.60 99, abroad 0.60 214, dash 0.59 118, offer 0.58 120
Translations
- English: lend, borrow