Difference between revisions of "dat"
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− | Na word wey de use instead of person name or name of someting. | + | Na word wey de dey use instead of person name or name of someting. |
*{{ux|dv|From dere, struggle start on mysef, I take care of mysef, and all of '''dat'''. |(WAZA_12_Lady-G_M__51, I started trying to eke out a living from that time on.)}} | *{{ux|dv|From dere, struggle start on mysef, I take care of mysef, and all of '''dat'''. |(WAZA_12_Lady-G_M__51, I started trying to eke out a living from that time on.)}} | ||
*{{ux|dv|Security agencies bin block road to im house and '''dat''' of im deputy Ike Ekweremadu for di capital Abuja. |(bbc__87345, The security agents barricaded the road to his house and that of the deputy Ike Ekweremadu in Abuja.)}} | *{{ux|dv|Security agencies bin block road to im house and '''dat''' of im deputy Ike Ekweremadu for di capital Abuja. |(bbc__87345, The security agents barricaded the road to his house and that of the deputy Ike Ekweremadu in Abuja.)}} |
Revision as of 13:13, 26 November 2020
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From: English that
Pronunciation
- dât
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 980
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 18
- Frequency in raw corpus: 8214
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 48
Determiner
Na word wey de dey use point to di person or ting person de talk about.
- Dat na di insect wey I tell you. — (Egbokhare_2020, That is the insect I mentioned earlier.)
- Even di student dey suffer, do dis, and dat, do dis, and dat, but nothing. — (ENU_36_I-Go-Go-Outside-Country_M__75, Despite all efforts suffering persists even for students.)
Pronoun
Na word wey de dey use instead of person name or name of someting.
- From dere, struggle start on mysef, I take care of mysef, and all of dat. — (WAZA_12_Lady-G_M__51, I started trying to eke out a living from that time on.)
- Security agencies bin block road to im house and dat of im deputy Ike Ekweremadu for di capital Abuja. — (bbc__87345, The security agents barricaded the road to his house and that of the deputy Ike Ekweremadu in Abuja.)
- E no suppose be like dat. — (JOS_07_Trousers-And-Short-Skirts_DG__87, That is not how it is supposed to be.)
Antonyms
Translations
- English: that