Difference between revisions of "curse"

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===Verb===
 
===Verb===
Make person talk bad bad someting about person.  
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#Make person talk bad bad someting about person.  
 
#:* {{ux|dv| Why you dey '''curse''' your senior brother? |(Egbokhare_2020, Why are you insulting your elder brother?)}}
 
#:* {{ux|dv| Why you dey '''curse''' your senior brother? |(Egbokhare_2020, Why are you insulting your elder brother?)}}
 
#:* {{ux|dv| Nwoye mama '''curse''' am, then sidon again begin peel the yam go. |(katakata__1130, Nwoye's mother insulted him, then sat down again and continued to peel her yam.)}}
 
#:* {{ux|dv| Nwoye mama '''curse''' am, then sidon again begin peel the yam go. |(katakata__1130, Nwoye's mother insulted him, then sat down again and continued to peel her yam.)}}

Revision as of 17:52, 19 January 2021

Naija

Etymology

From English: curse

Pronunciation

  • kɔ́s

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2006
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 73
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2536


Noun

  1. Someting bad dey happen to person.
    • Na curse dey follow am.  — ( Egbokhare_2020, He/she has been cursed.)
    • Dem be people wey curse dey for their head.  — (jw__29361, The crowd are accursed )
  2. Talk wey person talk, sey bad ting go follo person.
    • Na that time e remove the curse.  — (jw__17210, It was at that time he removed the curse.)
    • Chief priest sey make people go wash di curse wey dey derie head for river .  — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, The people were instructed to go to the river to wash off the retributions from their head.)

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Translations

  • English: curse,

Verb

  1. Make person talk bad bad someting about person.
    • Why you dey curse your senior brother?  — (Egbokhare_2020, Why are you insulting your elder brother?)
    • Nwoye mama curse am, then sidon again begin peel the yam go.  — (katakata__1130, Nwoye's mother insulted him, then sat down again and continued to peel her yam.)
  2. Sey someting na bad ting.
    • Disability no be curse  — (bbc__43027, My disability is not an affliction.)
  3. Make dey talk sey bad ting go follo person.
    • One old mama don curse dat boy.  — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, An old woman cursed the boy.)

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Translations

  • English: insult, curse