Difference between revisions of "call"

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===Noun===
 
===Noun===
Na make person take [[mouth]] talk to person make e hear wetin e dey talk.
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Na sey person dey ontop phone dey follow anoder person dey talk.
  
:*{{ux|dv| Since when im enter our shop, im dey make '''call''' till im comot. |(ENU_08_Strange-Customers_M__39, He was making calls from when he entered our shop till he left.)}}
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:*{{ux|dv| Since when im enter our shop, im dey make '''call''' till im comot. |(ENU_08_Strange-Customers_M__39, S/He was busy making and receiving calls throughout the period spent in our shop.)}}
  
 
===Transitive Verb===
 
===Transitive Verb===

Revision as of 03:49, 25 March 2021

Naija

Etymology

From: English call

Pronunciation

  • kɔ̂

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 208
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 79
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 3450
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 111


Noun

Na sey person dey ontop phone dey follow anoder person dey talk.

  • Since when im enter our shop, im dey make call till im comot.  — (ENU_08_Strange-Customers_M__39, S/He was busy making and receiving calls throughout the period spent in our shop.)

Transitive Verb

Make person take phone phone anoder person or take mouth mention any name wey e go make di person answer am.

  • I call am for phone.  — (NSC_Ajede_2020, I rang him.)
  • Na some people dey carry call person name and e papa name like sey na dem born di person.  — (NSC_Abonyi_2021, Some are fond of calling a person's first and last name in a condescending manner.)

Translations

  • English: call