cook

Naija

Etymology

From: English cook

Pronunciation

• kûk

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 70
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 186
• Frequency in raw corpus: 341
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 893

Noun

• Na name of person wey dey prepare food.

  Make una no turn me to una cook for dis house.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. I will not become a cook for anybody in this house.)

  She do cook, waitress, sex-worker, dancer, actor, journalist, singer and teacher work.  — (bbc__88556. She is a cook, a waitress, a dancer, an actor, a journalist, singer and a teacher.)

  Life tire di cook dem.  — (bbc__63868. The cooks are frustrated)

Translations

• English: a cook

Verb

• Na to prepare food

1. You sabi cook?  — (ABJ_GWA_05_Tailoring_DG__32, Do you know how to cook?)

   Make e say e dey teach my wife how to cook.  — (KAD_06_Cooking_DG__67, So that she will say she is teaching my wife how to cook.)

   Di soup wey I like to cook, na im be banga soup.  — (BEN_08_Egusi-And-Banga-Soup_MG__45, The dish that I like to cook, is, it's banga.)

2. mark-obj (frequency:10)

   I dey like to cook eh ogbono.  — (ABJ_NOU_01_Death-Of-A-Brother_DG__66, I like to cook eh Ogbono.)

   No be the person wey cook am?  — (jw__17171, __no translation__)

3. aux-obj (frequency:9)

   You know how de take dey cook di soup?  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__54, Do you know how they prepare the dish?)

   Ah my sister, my junior sister bin teach me how de take dey cook am o.  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__55, Ah, my sister... my younger sister taught me how they cook it.)

4. aux (frequency:6)

   Dey cook, dey give am.  — (NST_cleaned__2857, __no translation__)

   When dem come back, na di woman go cook.  — (BEN_01_Woman-Life-No-Easy_M__25, When they come back home, it's the woman who will cook.)

5. conj (frequency:6)

   Na fuel water we dey use cook' and baff'  — (bbc__9136, __no translation__)

   Say some of dem dey drink di water, dey use am cook and baff.  — (bbc__81538, __no translation__)

6. nsubj-obj (frequency:6)

   Na so de cook am,  — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__33, That's how they cook it.)

   I no know how de cook am o.  — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__32, I don't know how they cook it.)

7. aux-nsubj (frequency:6)

   Na im de g~, de dem go cook.  — (IBA_18_Money-Wahala_M__51, It is what they they will cook.)

   E no be everyting your wife fit cook.  — (KAD_06_Cooking_DG__56, It's not everything your wife can cook.)

8. advmod (frequency:5)

   You sabi cook well, well.  — (ENU_18_Onugbu-Soup_DG__13, You know how to cook very well,)

   So wetin you sabi cook well?  — (ENU_18_Onugbu-Soup_DG__1, So what do you know how to cook well ?)

9. nsubj (frequency:4)

   We cook, we eat.  — (NST_cleaned__30704, __no translation__)

   I cook, I give dem,  — (NST_cleaned__16845, __no translation__)

10. aux-conj (frequency:3)

    Dey cook, dey give am.  — (ONI_15_Gossiping_DG__177, Cooking and giving him.)

    Of all dis one, na she dey cook, dey clean, dey do dis, and dat for house o.  — (BEN_01_Woman-Life-No-Easy_M__9, On top of all these, she is still the one who cooks, cleans, does this and that in the house.)

11. advcl (frequency:2)

    After you don pour di rice for fire, allow am cook small.  — (ABJ_INF_02_Cooking-Recipes_M__17, After you have put the rice on fire, allow it cook for some time.)

    When you buy am finish, if you reach house, you go put am for pot, you go cook am make e don.  — (ABJ_GWA_05_Tailoring_DG__45, When you have bought it already, if you get to the house, you will put it in a pot. You will cook it done.)

12. obl:arg (frequency:2)

    Oya moh we go cook for my house,  — (IBA_07_Na-Love_DG__268, Alright, let's go cook at my house.)

    Afta BBC Pidgin tori on di 10-year-old chef Samantha Soje wey tok say she wan cook for Nigerian Afrobeats singer Tiwa Savage, e don happun.  — (bbc__12744, __no translation__)

13. discourse (frequency:2)

    I wan person make, moh, wey go help me eh cook.  — (ENU_18_Onugbu-Soup_DG__8, I want a person who who will help me eh cook.)

    You know sey fa, you know sey fa, you know sey fa nobody gree sey e no sabi cook bah.  — (KAD_06_Cooking_DG__198, You know that, right,... you know that, right,... you know that, right,... nobody agrees thatb he doesn't know how to cook.)

Serial Verb

• Na when dem do juju for person make he strong

  Dem don cook de park chairman done.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. The park chairman has been fortified with charms.)

  I wan eat cook.  — (Egbokhare_2020. .)

Translations

• English: no definition