buy

Naija

Alternative forms

• 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

Etymology

Borrowed from English buy

Pronunciation

• baɪ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 188
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 85
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1494
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 257

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Verb

buy: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. obj (frequency:228)

   Buy am.  — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__27, But it.)

   Buy am o.  — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__47, Buy it.)

2. mark-obj (frequency:152)

   E good to buy land.  — (bbc__44662, __no translation__)

   You get di money to buy am?  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__75, Do you have the money to buy it ?)

3. - (frequency:84)

   You must buy!  — (ENU_03_School-Fees-And-French-Exams_DG__46, You must buy them !)

   You must buy am.  — (ENU_03_School-Fees-And-French-Exams_DG__44, You must buy them.)

4. aux-obj (frequency:26)

   Children, na di parents dey buy books.  — (JOS_36_People-Suffering_M__81, The children, their parents buy books.)

   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.)

5. mark (frequency:20)

   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.)

   And e dey give us expensive things to buy.  — (ENU_13_School-Life_DG__68, And she gives us expensive things to buy.)

6. obl:arg (frequency:16)

   Go buy for market.  — (ABJ_GWA_05_Tailoring_DG__41, Go to buy it in the market...)

   but you no go see am buy for market  — (deuber__5924, __no translation__)

7. nsubj (frequency:9)

   Na trouser I buy,  — (LAG_06_Easter-Preparation_DG__76, It's trousers I bought.)

   How many you buy,  — (IBA_14_Bukky-And-Ope_DG__36, How many did you buy ?)

8. conj-obj (frequency:9)

   I go buy stuffs con bring am.  — (JOS_04_Mummy-Wahala_DG__40, I then went to buy stuffs and brought it.)

   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.)

9. cc-obj (frequency:8)

   TO build or buy house cost well-well.  — (bbc__92879, __no translation__)

   million to feed dogs and buy dia equipment  — (bbc__102533, __no translation__)

10. aux (frequency:6)

    Na buy we dey buy.”  — (jw__3200, __no translation__)

    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.)

11. conj (frequency:6)

    Im buy yam, buy, buy yam, buy potatoes, buy everything, one, one custard.  — (NST_cleaned__6730, __no translation__)

    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.)

12. dep (frequency:4)

    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.)

    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__)

13. dep-obj (frequency:4)

    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.)

    See as dem spend extra money buy boards to move cement because of water for the picture we just look.  — (bbc__35540, __no translation__)

14. advcl (frequency:3)

    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.)

    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__)

15. aux-mark (frequency:3)

    Den people con stay, con start to dey buy.  — (IBA_04_Alaska-Pepe_MG__45, Then people would stay and start buying.)

    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.)

16. det (frequency:2)

    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__)

    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__)

17. advmod (frequency:2)

    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__)

    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__)

18. obl:mod (frequency:2)

    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, __no translation__)

    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

1. 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.)

   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

• 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

Translations

• English: no definition