Difference between revisions of "catch"

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Revision as of 10:57, 2 March 2021

Naija

Etymology

From: English catch

Pronunciation

  • kátʃ

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 37
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 300
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 908
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 389


Verb

  1. Sey someting /person hold someting/person.
    • Na im Ben-hadad plan to catch Elisha.  — (jw__4174, Ben-hadad planed to catch Elisha.)
    • Comot, go canal, go catch fish.  — (NST_cleaned__41838, Go out, go to the canal to catch.)
  2. Make person dey feel someting.
    • Fear dey catch you?  — (NST_cleaned__24104, I am scared.)
    • Fear catch me.  — (KAD_23_Christians-In-Kaduna_DG__36, I was overwhelmmed with fear.)
  3. Make person find out wetin person do.
    • You see na dere I catch you.  — (NST_cleaned__9069, I saw you there, I caught you red-handed.)
    • But now when dem catch dem.  — (deuber__2339, But now they have been caught.)
  4. Make dem arrest person.
    • If I go break im head, you know sey na me de go catch eheh.  — (NST_cleaned__13157, If I break his head, I will be the one to be arrested.)
    • Di driver of di bus don run and police for di area don close di school plus catch di owner.  — (bbc__34187, The bus driver is at large; The school has been closed by the police and the owner has been arrested.)

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Translations

  • English: catch, arrest,