Difference between revisions of "buy"

 
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===Pronunciation===
 
===Pronunciation===
* baɪ
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* báɪ̀
 
<sm2>Pcm-ng-buy.f.ogg</sm2>  
 
<sm2>Pcm-ng-buy.f.ogg</sm2>  
<sm2>Pcm-ng-buy.m.ogg</sm2>  
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<sm2>Pcm-ng-buy.m.ogg</sm2>
 
 
===Frequency===
 
* Frequency in NSC treebank: 188
 
* Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 85
 
* Frequency in raw corpus: 1494
 
* Frequency rank in raw corpus: 257
 
 
 
  
 
===Verb===
 
===Verb===
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* Make person bring money make take collect someting.
 
* Make person bring money make take collect someting.
 
:*  {{ux|dv|You get di money to '''buy''' am? |(ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__75, Do you have the money to buy it ?)}}
 
:*  {{ux|dv|You get di money to '''buy''' am? |(ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__75, Do you have the money to buy it ?)}}
:* {{ux|dv|For 1999, Larry and Sergey bin dey try to sell Google for $1 million dollar but nobodi gree '''buy''' even afta dem reduce di price. |(bbc__49556, Larry and Sergey had tried to sell google for $1 million dollars but no one agreed to buy even after they had reduced the price)}}
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:* {{ux|dv|For 1999, Larry and Sergey bin dey try to sell Google for $1 million dollar but nobodi gree '''buy''' even afta dem reduce di price. |(bbc__49556, Larry and Sergey had tried to sell google for $1 million dollars but no one agreed to buy even after they had reduced the price.)}}
 
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:* {{ux|dv|'''Buy''' paper, pay hundred naira, comot dere, go read am for your house. |(IBA_35_Christopher-And-David_DG__62, Buy the paper, pay hundred naira, leave there, go and read it in your house.)}}
 
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====Related Forms====
# obj (frequency:228)
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[[buy market]], [[buy job]]
#: {{ux|dv|'''Buy''' am. |(ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__27, But it.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|'''Buy''' am o. |(ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__47, Buy it.)}}
 
# mark-obj (frequency:152)
 
#: {{ux|dv|E good to '''buy''' land. |(bbc__44662, __no translation__)}}
 
 
 
# - (frequency:84)
 
#: {{ux|dv|You must '''buy'''! |(ENU_03_School-Fees-And-French-Exams_DG__46, You must buy them !)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|You must '''buy''' am. |(ENU_03_School-Fees-And-French-Exams_DG__44, You must buy them.)}}
 
# aux-obj (frequency:26)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Children, na di parents dey '''buy''' books. |(JOS_36_People-Suffering_M__81, The children, their parents buy books.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|We go use am, go '''buy''' cloth, wetin we wan. |(ABJ_GWA_08_David-Lifestory_MG__22, We would use it to buy clothes, anything we wanted.)}}
 
# mark (frequency:20)
 
#: {{ux|dv|No, I no get dat kind mind to '''buy'''. |(JOS_40_Travelling-On-Nigerian-Roads_DG__125, No, I do not have that sort of guts to buy.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|And e dey give us expensive things to '''buy'''. |(ENU_13_School-Life_DG__68, And she gives us expensive things to buy.)}}
 
# obl:arg (frequency:16)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Go '''buy''' for market. |(ABJ_GWA_05_Tailoring_DG__41, Go to buy it in the market...)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|but you no go see am '''buy''' for market |(deuber__5924, __no translation__)}}
 
# nsubj (frequency:9)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Na trouser I '''buy''', |(LAG_06_Easter-Preparation_DG__76, It's trousers I bought.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|How many you '''buy''', |(IBA_14_Bukky-And-Ope_DG__36, How many did you buy ?)}}
 
# conj-obj (frequency:9)
 
#: {{ux|dv|I go '''buy''' stuffs con bring am. |(JOS_04_Mummy-Wahala_DG__40, I then went to buy stuffs and brought it.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|'''Buy''' paper, pay hundred naira, comot dere, go read am for your house. |(IBA_35_Christopher-And-David_DG__62, Buy the paper, pay hundred naira, leave there, go and read it in your house.)}}
 
# cc-obj (frequency:8)
 
#: {{ux|dv|TO build or '''buy''' house cost well-well. |(bbc__92879, __no translation__)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|million to feed dogs and '''buy''' dia equipment |(bbc__102533, __no translation__)}}
 
# aux (frequency:6)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Na '''buy''' we dey '''buy'''.” |(jw__3200, __no translation__)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|Di thing be sey salary don dey decrease, and di thing wey we come dey '''buy''' con dey increase. |(ABJ_INF_08_Impatience_DG__198, The thing is that salary is decreasing and the thing which we are buying is now increasing.)}}
 
# conj (frequency:6)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Im '''buy''' yam, '''buy''', '''buy''' yam, '''buy''' potatoes, '''buy''' everything, one, one custard. |(NST_cleaned__6730, __no translation__)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv| No, I dey reason sey, maybe, I go give you money, den you go '''buy''', you go bring. |(JOS_40_Travelling-On-Nigerian-Roads_DG__123, No, I am reasoning that maybe I will give you the money, then you will buy, and bring.)}}
 
# dep (frequency:4)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Like now, dis our banga soup now, dis our language food, you go go market, you go '''buy''' di banga. |(ABJ_GWA_05_Tailoring_DG__44, This our banga dish, this our language food, you will go to market. You will buy the banga.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|But di rule for di place be say you no fit see wetin to smoke '''buy''' for inside di Shrine, na for outside dem dey sell am. |(bbc__22341, __no translation__)}}
 
# dep-obj (frequency:4)
 
#: {{ux|dv|We go go '''buy''' something, we go go '''buy''' foodstuff for, from market. |(IBA_20_Bose-Alade_MG__41, We go to buy things, we go to buy food in... from the market.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|See as dem spend extra money '''buy''' boards to move cement because of water for the picture we just look. |(bbc__35540, __no translation__)}}
 
# advcl (frequency:3)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Where will she get money to return, what will she '''buy''' when she doesn't have anything? |(JOS_36_People-Suffering_M__9, Where will she get money in return ? What will she buy when she doesn't have anything.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|Rich, rich women wey dey find how dem go just take begin dey make men sleep wit dem, if dem see you sey dem like you, de go begin '''buy''' big, big ting dey give you. |(NST_cleaned__32437, __no translation__)}}
 
# aux-mark (frequency:3)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Den people con stay, con start to dey '''buy'''. |(IBA_04_Alaska-Pepe_MG__45, Then people would stay and start buying.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|Even for zobo, I dey watch di one wey I go '''buy'''. |(IBA_14_Bukky-And-Ope_DG__117, Even zobo, I carefully observe the one I will buy.)}}
 
# det (frequency:2)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Di market just dey busy as pipo wey di sell and those wey di '''buy''' just busy dey do dia tin |(bbc__35932, __no translation__)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|Manka, resident for Kumba tell BBC News Pidgin say some pipo around e area for old Mamfe park stand for line di '''buy''' and Deh di share rice for free but di sell meat and oda tins. |(bbc__65276, __no translation__)}}
 
# advmod (frequency:2)
 
#: {{ux|dv|E don tay wey we warn our members make dem no dey use immoral words to sell sex herbs no be dat one go make u sell, if your products good pipo go come '''buy''' so no be who shout and use bad bad language pass go sell pass. |(bbc__2378, __no translation__)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|Maize we we grow last year reach about 20 million tonnes and di companies wey dey '''buy''' from us no gree '''buy''' so presently we get enough for companies to '''buy''', pipo wey dey do chicken feed and also pipo wey '''buy''' to chop, enough dey ground. |(bbc__4654, __no translation__)}}
 
# obl:mod (frequency:2)
 
 
 
#: {{ux|dv|Etteh David wey be bus driver say, di fuel wey him get na di one he '''buy''' yesterday and if he no see '''buy''' today, he go park motor. |(bbc__47269, __no translation__)}}
 
 
 
====Derived forms====
 
 
 
* [[dat buy|dat buy]]
 
 
 
#: {{ux|dv|Me too, mey I go hustle for money so dat if we go, I go buy enough tins. |(ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__148, Me too, let me go hustle for money so that if we go I can buy enough things.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|Na im, make di price come small like dis five hundred naira so dat people go buy. |(LAG_27_Shawarma_MG__35, That's why the price is as low as five hundred naira, so that people will buy it.)}}
 
 
 
====Synonyms====
 
* sell 0.84 1187, eat 0.71 336, cook 0.71 389, produce 0.70 443, feed 0.70 130, drink 0.67 652, chop 0.67 2029, swallow 0.66 94, import 0.66 132
 
  
 
====Antonyms====
 
====Antonyms====
* sell 0.84 1187, eat 0.71 336, cook 0.71 389, produce 0.70 443, feed 0.70 130, drink 0.67 652, chop 0.67 2029, swallow 0.66 94, import 0.66 132
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[[sell]]
 
 
 
====Translations====
 
====Translations====
* English: no definition
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* English: ''buy''

Latest revision as of 16:49, 6 August 2021

Naija

Etymology

From: English buy

Pronunciation

  • báɪ̀

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Verb

Transitive

  • Make person bring money make take collect someting.
  • You get di money to buy am?  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__75, Do you have the money to buy it ?)
  • For 1999, Larry and Sergey bin dey try to sell Google for $1 million dollar but nobodi gree buy even afta dem reduce di price.  — (bbc__49556, Larry and Sergey had tried to sell google for $1 million dollars but no one agreed to buy even after they had reduced the price.)
  • Buy paper, pay hundred naira, comot dere, go read am for your house.  — (IBA_35_Christopher-And-David_DG__62, Buy the paper, pay hundred naira, leave there, go and read it in your house.)

Related Forms

buy market, buy job

Antonyms

sell

Translations

  • English: buy