case

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Naija

Alternative forms

  • trial 0.78 191, judgement 0.74 258, appeal 0.70 348, charges 0.67 149, offence 0.65 303, judgment 0.63 68, hearing 0.63 91, court 0.62 4132, supreme 0.60 290

Etymology

etymology:English ' case'.

Pronunciation

  • kês

Play

Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 9
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 762
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 1286
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 290

The word is used more in written texts than orally.


Noun

case: a lawsuit -- Definition in Naija?


  1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
    Di chief get case for court tomorrow.  — (The Chief has a lawsuit in the court tomorrow.)
  2. det (frequency:293)
    How di case bin waka?  — (bbc__56433, __no translation__)
    This no be di case before.  — (bbc__805, __no translation__)
  3. - (frequency:191)
    Na 'natural' case  — (bbc__69614, __no translation__)
    Dat one no be case, dat one no be case,  — (NST_cleaned__35112, __no translation__)
  4. case-det (frequency:76)
    For dis case, im generator turn problem.  — (bbc__40764, __no translation__)
    Why dem no wait for dat case to happun. Im tok.  — (bbc__855, __no translation__)
  5. nmod (frequency:59)
    Tribunal don postpone Saraki case  — (bbc__95794, __no translation__)
    Buhari case na one chance now, na one chance we enter.  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__233, It's an opportunity we took.)
  6. det-nmod (frequency:57)
    Since den na one court case afta di oda.  — (bbc__30307, __no translation__)
    Dis Evans case don attract plenty attention  — (bbc__40165, __no translation__)
  7. acl (frequency:23)
    Court go continue case to comot Dino Melaye from senate  — (bbc__26346, __no translation__)
    Dem say im get case to answer ontop di shooting of one police officer.  — (bbc__82265, __no translation__)
  8. dep (frequency:21)
    Di Kano man wey write Will for im cat in case of wen im die.  — (bbc__66712, __no translation__)
    Dr Ihekweazu still add say di Ribavirin dey always dey for hospital in case of incasity.  — (bbc__43351, __no translation__)
  9. amod (frequency:17)
    Dem carry the matter go court and dem win many case.  — (jw__22355, __no translation__)
    As e be so, dem dey report say no new case dey ground.  — (bbc__16980, __no translation__)
  10. case (frequency:12)
    Jew people wey their work na to judge matter for court, come call Jesus for case for inside Caiaphas house.  — (jw__21261, __no translation__)
    But problem come be say Sierra Leone dey do all dem elections manually, so e be like di police case no pure at all.  — (bbc__23368, __no translation__)
  11. dep-det (frequency:7)
    Im get one case before wey be sey im go tief en phone.  — (IBA_28_Moshood-And-Hassan_DG__41, He had a case before which is that he stole a phone.)
    Di plan na to ensure say any case of Ebola dem suspect, dem go sharperly hand ova to health officials for airport.  — (bbc__98222, __no translation__)
  12. acl-det (frequency:4)
    Dakingari waka say im no get any case to answer.  — (bbc__99767, __no translation__)
    As things be, Jose Mourinho don talk say im no get any case to answer after im settle fine with Spain court.  — (bbc__17423, __no translation__)
  13. ccomp (frequency:3)
    unisex?in case you wan sew cloth make you go give am make e help you sew sabi sew  — (deuber__4540, __no translation__)
    Oga Saraki bin dey face 18 count charge say im lie to declare im property for case Nigeria goment sama on top im head since 2015.  — (bbc__76895, __no translation__)
  14. advmod (frequency:3)
    But if na di couple give church consent to do di test, den no case dey dia, na so she tok.  — (bbc__4373, __no translation__)
    Wetin we do na clean deal and we believe say di trial judges for Italy go conclude say no case dey against Shell or anybodi wey don work for us before.  — (bbc__7696, __no translation__)
  15. conj (frequency:2)
    Wetin subsection for dis section talk no go get affect di power wey normal criminal court get to try case or people wey don grow wey break law as e dey for PIII for dis Act or another law .  — (hildrights__4, __no translation__)
    Oga Bala dey reply Nigerian Education minister Adamu Adamu afta e ya on Monday say dem dey plan policy wey go lead to arrest and court case for mama and papa dem wey no gree cari dia pikin for go school for Nigeria .  — (bbc__76490, __no translation__)
  16. nsubj (frequency:2)
    Naira Marley, Zlatan Ibile and odas still dey awa hand for yahoo-yahoo - EFCC EFCC still dey hold Ayo Fayose afta court postpone case Fayose don land EFCC domot to face im warrant  — (bbc__72318, __no translation__)
    But Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo talk BBC say dem dey deal plus Anas Aremeyaw Anas on dis matter, but de case delay small sake of de death of Ahmed Hussein-Suale who be key witness den also di unedited footage from de investigation which dem dey review.  — (bbc__21239, __no translation__)

Derived forms

Synonyms

  • trial 0.78 191, judgement 0.74 258, appeal 0.70 348, charges 0.67 149, offence 0.65 303, judgment 0.63 68, hearing 0.63 91, court 0.62 4132, supreme 0.60 290

Antonyms

  • trial 0.78 191, judgement 0.74 258, appeal 0.70 348, charges 0.67 149, offence 0.65 303, judgment 0.63 68, hearing 0.63 91, court 0.62 4132, supreme 0.60 290

Translations

  • English: a lawsuit
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