Difference between revisions of "bunk"

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# Place wey person dey stay
 
# Place wey person dey stay
#: {{ux|dv|I con run go di '''house'''. |(ABJ_NOU_01_Death-Of-A-Brother_DG__29, Then I ran to the house.)}}
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#: {{ux|dv|I dey my '''bunk'''. |(I am in my room.)}}
#: {{ux|dv|Go '''house''', |(IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__385, Go to the house !)}}
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Revision as of 18:30, 20 August 2020

Naija

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English bunk

Pronunciation

  • bɔŋk

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 194
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 82
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 3302
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 117

The word is used more orally than in written texts.


Noun

bunk: place wey person dey stay, group wey dem dey share people dey put when school wan do inter house sports


  1. Place wey person dey stay
    I dey my bunk.  — (I am in my room.)


Derived forms

Synonyms

Antonyms

Translations

  • house, home, room