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Naija

Etymology

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

Definition

• Na word wey dem dey use join two different idea togeder.

Coordinating Conjunction

1. 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.