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==Naija==
 
==Naija==
  
===Etymology===
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===Etymol===
Borrowed from English but
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From English but
  
 
===Pronunciation===
 
===Pronunciation===

Revision as of 15:06, 8 September 2020

Naija

Etymol

From English but

Pronunciation

  • bɔt

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 469
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 43
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 14155
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 33

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Definition

  • but: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

Coordinating Conjunction

  1. But, but you know serious, serious!  — (WAZK_08_Fuel-Price-Increase_MG__45, But, but you know... let's be serious here... let's be serious here.)
    Ehn na good ting o, but at, at least…  — (JOS_32_School-And-Party-Politics_DG__148, Ehn, it is a good thing. But at... at least...)


Antonyms

  • and 0.51 60996

Translations

  • English: no definition,on the contrary, rather.