broke
Naija
Etymology
From: English broke
Pronunciation
- brôk
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 18
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 5741
Adjective
- Make person no get money.
- If I tell you sey eh pepper dey red, X I mean sey I'm broke. — (ABJ_INF_05_On-Pidgin_M__78, If I tell you eh, pepper is red, X I mean I'm broke.)
- De never even talk so, and e con tell me sey e dey broke. — (JOS_26_Small-Talk_DG__122, They have not even talked, he then told me that he is broke.)
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Translations
- English: broke