buy
Naija
Etymology
From: English buy
Pronunciation
- báɪ̀
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 188
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 85
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1494
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 257
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.)
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Translations
- English: buy