broke

Naija

Alternative forms

• haile 0.71 7, sofa 0.69 5, frog 0.67 14, wallahi 0.67 13, bare 0.67 5, ewere 0.66 16, lydia 0.66 17, ž 0.66 7, y 0.66 40

Etymology

etymology: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

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Verb

broke: to be without money -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   I don broke sha.  — (I don't have money.)

2. aux-cc-nsubj (frequency:3)

   I do prostitute work for Libya, I no go lie - Returnee I sell everything wen I get to go Europe - now I don come back house and I dey broke  — (bbc__3459, __no translation__)

   Wetin Canada wan begin do to Nigerians no good Israel don give quit notice to African migrants I sell everything wen I get to go Europe - now I don come back house and I dey broke  — (bbc__7617, __no translation__)

3. - (frequency:2)

   When the pot fall down broke, she burst laugh.  — (katakata__471, __no translation__)

   R. Kelly tok say none of di songs wey im write be im own I be broke Legend  — (bbc__84421, __no translation__)

4. obj (frequency:2)

   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.)

   “She go done broke im water-pot” The cru come dry near house put.  — (katakata__1044, __no translation__)

5. aux-mark (frequency:2)

   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.)

   Weda na friend wey dey broke, or pesin wey dey find extra money to buy motor or antin sef.  — (bbc__98423, __no translation__)

6. aux-conj-mark-nsubj (frequency:2)

   E also mean say if anything happen to Nigeria, like dem dey broke or get any palava, dem go get backup from di money wey dey di foreign reserve.  — (bbc__2247, __no translation__)

   Di one wey come dey reign pass now be say dese bad people wey fit plenty reach like twenty go pack demself full one big motor, with knife, cutlass, bottle wey dem don broke and gun, begin dey go from one house to di oder dey thief people property, at times beat dem nearly faint, cut dem knife for body and even kill some too.  — (deuber__5285, __no translation__)

Synonymes

• haile 0.71 7, sofa 0.69 5, frog 0.67 14, wallahi 0.67 13, bare 0.67 5, ewere 0.66 16, lydia 0.66 17, ž 0.66 7, y 0.66 40

Antonymes

• haile 0.71 7, sofa 0.69 5, frog 0.67 14, wallahi 0.67 13, bare 0.67 5, ewere 0.66 16, lydia 0.66 17, ž 0.66 7, y 0.66 40

Translations

• English: to be without money