but
Naija
Etymology
Borrowed 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
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Definition
- but: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
Coordinating Conjunction
- 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.