dat

Naija

Alternative forms

• that

Etymology

From: English that

Pronunciation

• dât

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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 di word wey de dey use point to person or someting person de talk about.

• Dat na di insect wey I tell you.  — (Egbokhare_2020, That is the insect I mentioned earlier.)
• Dere is nothing dat prayer cannot do.  — (LAG_15_Prayer_M__4, Prayer is a panacea.)
• E get mass 6.5 billion times dat of di Sun.  — (bbc__2403, The sun has a mass 6.5 billion times than it does.)
• 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.)

Conjunction

Na word wey de use join anoder word.

• Is like I told you di oder time dat Syndora is still alive.  — (KAD_04_Indian-Movies_DG__58, Just as I had informed you, Syndora is still alive.)
• Depends on any style dat you want.  — (IBA_19_Beauty-Salon_M__48, It depends on which style you prefer.)

Adverb

Na word wey de use show why person do someting or as someting be.

• It's just dat shows no dey come as before you understand now?  — (LAG_14_Charles-And-Alfred-On-Music_DG__17, Business has not been okay for a while, do you get?)
• No be like dat.  — (deuber__6345, It is not as you think.)
• E no suppose be like dat.  — (JOS_07_Trousers-And-Short-Skirts_DG__87, It's not supposed to be like that.)

Pronoun

Na word wey de use instead of person name make di name e no tire person to talk again again.

• 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.)
• Im say im go secure di FCT because dia security also mean im own security and dat of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.  — (bbc__59157, )

1. Johnson don vex too much o.Na dat one you come tell me? Na dat and not dat.  — (deuber__6626, __no translation__)

(det)

1. And when e dey talk to you, e dey talk like dat,  — (ABJ_INF_09a_Children-Story_M__10, And when he is talking to you, he talks that way.) (adv)

   And we have different part of things dat eh you have to do.  — (KAD_20_School-And-Working-Experience_M__26, And we have different types of things that eh you have to do.) (conj)

Translations

• English: that, because

Subordinating Conjunction

dat: no definition, COMP -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:345)

   Dat it is,  — (JOS_10_Mothers-Against-Mini-Skirts_DG__80, That it is...)

   Dat e no get place ah.  — (PRT_06_Port-Harcourt_DG__109, That there is no place ah.)

2. cc (frequency:2)

   Air force oga Abubakar say, Umar display di core values of di Air force and dat di Air Force go kontinu to hold Umar for high esteem.  — (bbc__13417, __no translation__)

   Terrence say di only thing president tell them na to admit say Police oga no follow instruction on top Benue mata and dat if na di only thing e get to talk, e for no come at all.  — (bbc__93288, __no translation__)

Translations

• English: that

Derived forms

• dat know

1. De go do like sey de be city girls so dat you know when dey enter big place like dis ba, dem go know sey ah na babe be dis,  — (KAD_22_Chatting-At-The-Restaurant_DG__168, They'll pretend they're city girls so that you know, when they enter a big place like this, they'll know that these are babes.)

   One trailer of eh... cement dey go dey follow you so dat people go know sey yes people wey de forget for many years, God don remember dem.  — (ONI_07_Dis-Year-Na-My-Year_MG__59, One trailer of uh... cement, they'll follow you so that people will know that yes, God has remembered the people they've forgotten about for many years.)

Synonyms

• that 0.80 3460, dis 0.70 19951, this 0.55 6649, waste 0.50 351, anoder 0.49 349, which 0.45 1954, ehn 0.45 1757, enough 0.44 309, long 0.42 690

Antonyms

• that 0.80 3460, dis 0.70 19951, this 0.55 6649, waste 0.50 351, anoder 0.49 349, which 0.45 1954, ehn 0.45 1757, enough 0.44 309, long 0.42 690

Translations

• English: no definition, COMP