conductor

Naija

Alternative forms

• pineapple 0.76 7, floppy 0.75 6, dysfunction 0.75 6, pesticide 0.75 6, malware 0.74 6, konko 0.74 14, seleka 0.74 5, demolition 0.74 14, kpomo 0.74 6

Etymology

Borrowed from English conductor

Pronunciation

• kɔ̀ndɔ́tɔ́

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3501
• Frequency in raw corpus: 21
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 5237

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

conductor: bus boy -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Na di conductor steal di phone.  — (It's the bus boy who stole the phone.)

2. - (frequency:9)

   Na con~, conductor.  — (ONI_15_Gossiping_DG__84, It's a con... conductor.)

   You must get conductor before people go enter BRT bus.  — (WAZL_06_Na-Your-Health_DG__75, You must have a conductor before people can board BRT bus.)

3. det (frequency:4)

   Di type one so, dat conductor, no dey.  — (WAZL_06_Na-Your-Health_DG__86, That type one, there is no conductor.)

   Insulin dey dere, dats di conductor dey dere o, but e no kajad.  — (NST_cleaned__15275, __no translation__)

4. nmod (frequency:2)

   Some oder people, dier conductor, e fit no dey, e fit dey overwork.  — (WAZL_06_Na-Your-Health_DG__81, Some other people's conductor may not be, it may be too active.)

   And I know, I know sey e get for some people, e get some kind, e get as dier own conductor level be, some people, dier conductor, e no too gallant,  — (NST_cleaned__15244, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• pineapple 0.76 7, floppy 0.75 6, dysfunction 0.75 6, pesticide 0.75 6, malware 0.74 6, konko 0.74 14, seleka 0.74 5, demolition 0.74 14, kpomo 0.74 6

Antonyms

• pineapple 0.76 7, floppy 0.75 6, dysfunction 0.75 6, pesticide 0.75 6, malware 0.74 6, konko 0.74 14, seleka 0.74 5, demolition 0.74 14, kpomo 0.74 6

Translations

• English: bus boy