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Revision as of 13:48, 2 November 2020
Naija
Etymology
From English but
Pronunciation
- bɔt
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 469
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 43
- Frequency in raw corpus: 14155
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 33
Definition
- Na word wey dem dey use join two different idea togeder.
Coordinating Conjunction
- My mama comot di phone but e no return am. — (NSC_Tella_2020, My mother removed the phone but she didn't return it.)
- 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: on the contrary, rather.