broke

Naija

Etymology

From: English broke

Pronunciation

  • brôk

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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.
  • Baba, di ground dry. I broke die.  — (NSC_2021, Brother, things are hard. I'm really 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.)

Synonyms

dry

Antonyms

loaded, soft

Translations

  • English: broke