con
Naija
Alternative forms
- come 0.61 17524,
Etymology
Borrowed from English come
Pronunciation
- kɔ́n
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1125
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 16
- Frequency in raw corpus: 2923
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 136
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Auxiliary
con: aspect marker -- di time wey something happen
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- As e complain sey di food no good, I no con buy am again. — (As he/she complained that the food is not good, I then didn't buy it again.)
- mark-nsubj (frequency:5)
- What if you con, your Papa con loss all di whole money. — (NST_cleaned__14073, __no translation__)
- So before de con, when de con shine deir light, de con see sey civil defence dey dere, — (NST_cleaned__1503, __no translation__)
- conj:dicto (frequency:5)
- Na so dat one con, e con enter im head, — (ONI_18a_Kanpatakwa_M__81, That's how that one, it got to her head...)
- If I con, if de con resume lectures, you wan do photocopy, you wan buy handout, you wan do test. — (KAD_08_Kasu-Student-Interaction_DG__125, If I then...if they then resume lectures, you want to do photocopy; you want to buy handout; you want to do test.)
Synonyms
- den, na
Translations
- English: aspect marker, then