come

Naija

Alternative forms

  • con 0.61 3175

Etymology

Borrowed from English come

Pronunciation

  • kɔm

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 719
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 33
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 16273
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 32

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Definition

  • come: Di time wey someting sele.

Auxiliary

  1. obj (frequency:4)
    E tall pass all of us, e con huge, e con get muscle, e con fine, e come fresh, e come… ,  — (WAZL_14_Kulele-Zone_DG__85, he is taller than all of us, He is huge, he is muscular, he is fine, he is fresh, he is now...)
  2. ccomp-nsubj (frequency:3)
    Na through dat taxi, I come meet...  — (LAG_07_Johns-Biography_MG__48, It was through that taxi that I met...)


Derived forms

  • become

Synonyms

  • den 0.61 3175, na

Translations

  • English: then

Verb

  • come: moh waka reach a place
  1. Who come for French?  — (ENU_03_School-Fees-And-French-Exams_DG__176, Who comes from a French country ?)
  2. advmod (frequency:86)
    Just come back.  — (ABJ_NOU_02_Gimba-Lifestory_MG__34, He just came back.)
    Mah I go come back,  — (IBA_07_Na-Love_DG__300, Let me go and then come back.)
  • Make person mellow abi dey kule
  1. obl:arg (frequency:94)
    Come on Guys!  — (brila__853, __no translation__)

Derived forms

  1. Im don become di oga patapata for im family  —  He has become the head of his family.)

Synonyms

  • con 0.61 3175, arrive, land, show face

Antonyms

go 0.55 63583, comot, waka

Translations

  • English: come