con

Naija

Alternative forms

• come 0.61 17524,

Etymology

Borrowed from English come

Pronunciation

• kɔ́n

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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.

Definition

• con: aspect marker -- di time wey something happen

Auxiliary

1. 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.)

2. 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