day
Naija
Alternative forms
- month 0.60 988, night 0.54 936, week 0.54 1155, year 0.51 4001, time 0.48 7196, period 0.48 333, hour 0.48 137, celebration 0.46 118, holiday 0.44 215
Etymology
Borrowed from English day
Pronunciation
- deɪ
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 135
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 110
- Frequency in raw corpus: 2645
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 156
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
day: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- det (frequency:793)
- D day — (bbc__26609, __no translation__)
- No day. — (JOS_04_Mummy-Wahala_DG__79, No day.)
- case-det (frequency:211)
- After dat day, I get mysef. — (PRT_07_Drummer_MG__107, Afterwards, I was fine.)
- You don chai for dat day be dat. — (LAG_18_Lagos-Districts_M__87, You have eaten on that very day.)
- - (frequency:145)
- If na day, be dat. — (NST_cleaned__33657, __no translation__)
- Make we try ev’ry day, — (jw__23341, __no translation__)
- amod-det (frequency:145)
- I spend anoder full day… — (JOS_40_Travelling-On-Nigerian-Roads_DG__9, I spent another full day...)
- Na that same day we marry. — (jw__24813, __no translation__)
- case (frequency:115)
- Airlines dey lose millions per day — (bbc__13427, __no translation__)
- one to two per day na 14% increase; — (bbc__895, __no translation__)
- amod (frequency:54)
- Say ev’ry day, — (jw__31857, __no translation__)
- Thank him ev’ry day. — (jw__34302, __no translation__)
- dep-det (frequency:54)
- Na which day you do am? — (NST_cleaned__14568, __no translation__)
- Dat day I wake up, I con dey cry. — (NST_cleaned__38267, __no translation__)
- nmod (frequency:40)
- Jehovah day don near well well. — (jw__38145, __no translation__)
- To dem, July 27 na day of liberation. — (bbc__94215, __no translation__)
- det-nmod (frequency:35)
- I hear one guy one day. — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__30, I heard a guy one day.)
- one day like dat uh im wife na so so woman e dey born — (deuber__873, __no translation__)
- conj (frequency:18)
- Make we stay near am day and night. — (jw__23190, __no translation__)
- Di operation go dey happun day and night till dem deliver all di materials finish. — (bbc__36832, __no translation__)
- advmod (frequency:9)
- If we follow am ev’ry day, — (jw__16615, __no translation__)
- No day dey pass wey somtin no dey trend or di show. — (bbc__75156, __no translation__)
- cc (frequency:5)
- Whether na for night or day, think about how you go take follow the advice wey you read for Bible. — (jw__35914, __no translation__)
- But di worst tin now, for me to tell you my own view, wetin dey pain me both night, and day, na dis everytin don increase. — (LAG_09_Country-Wahala_DG__44, But the worst thing now, if I am to tell you my own view, what is paining me - both at night and in the day, is that everything has been inflated.)
- acl-det (frequency:5)
- So any day when school authority don con discover, make dem punish everybody. — (NST_cleaned__715, __no translation__)
- Because there is a day when I visit prison with my people to go and greet all dese people wey dem catch. — (KAD_20_School-And-Working-Experience_M__29, Because, there was a day when I visited prison with my people to go and greet all these people whom they caught.)
- acl (frequency:4)
- Na day to create awareness about HIV/AIDS as World Health Organisation tok. — (bbc__9644, __no translation__)
- For shisha lovers for Kenya, Thursday 28 December go be day to remember for dem as government ban di sale, promotion and smoking of di product. — (bbc__64437, __no translation__)
- dep (frequency:4)
- In di evening, I con say okay make I sleep over unto sey I still get more work wen I wan do for farm di following day before I go. — (BEN_24_Bunkering_DG__3, In the evening, I said okay, let me sleep over since I still have more work which I wanted to do on the farm the following day, before I would...)
- She say dis go help weight gain and risk of heart disease problem but pipo no need to drink am everi day, but wit moderation, na so she tok. — (bbc__88915, __no translation__)
- cc-det (frequency:4)
- You fit comot di location tracking, and delete all di history, or one day or over some time. — (bbc__101703, __no translation__)
- E nova stay weh bus get accident weh e kill 30 pipo and day no di pass weh tori for accident no komot for social media. — (bbc__45079, __no translation__)
- det-obj (frequency:4)
- I believe in God sey one day, one day,… — (NST_cleaned__22768, __no translation__)
- While di number of pipo wey dey live on less than $1.90 a day don go down for Asia, di number dey rise for Africa, di report tok. — (bbc__1436, __no translation__)
Derived forms
- Evri day, we dey get new tori of house wey di tin don enta. — (bbc__1858, __no translation__)
- Evri day our men dey go around dey look for dis kain girls wey no dey hear word and dey roam about. — (bbc__2731, __no translation__)
- NDLEA for Kano dey mark dis year UN day against drug abuse with plenti activities. — (bbc__69400, __no translation__)
- February 6 every year na UN day for Female Genital Mutilation wey don affect 200 million women for di world. — (bbc__48841, __no translation__)
- I wish you just one day XX make she dey carry me come back early. — (JOS_22_Marriage-Talk-With-Oscar-2_DG__77, I wish you will just use ... one day so that she will be bringing back home early.)
- See ehen, if you be better friend dat day, XX at least, t~, tell di girl sey make di girl no do dat kind thing. — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__149, See ehen, if you were a good friend that day,...at least, you would have told the girl that the girl should not do such a thing.)
- E fit be sey na for day time. — (jw__44169, __no translation__)
- We fit pray for day time or for night. — (jw__8211, __no translation__)
- Bara Kabaka Brown To teach native language no be one day work. — (bbc__19061, __no translation__)
- Person close for work, e say make im waka jeje go di bus stop wey near am pass to wait for motor wey go carry am go home to go rest, so dat e go prepare for anoder day work. — (deuber__5310, __no translation__)
- Since January when dis season start, na evri day somtin dey always trend from di show. — (bbc__89704, __no translation__)
- Di number of pipo wey dey catch am for states like Borno, Yobe and Adamawa dey increase evri day. — (bbc__36603, __no translation__)
Synonyms
- month 0.60 988, night 0.54 936, week 0.54 1155, year 0.51 4001, time 0.48 7196, period 0.48 333, hour 0.48 137, celebration 0.46 118, holiday 0.44 215
Antonyms
- month 0.60 988, night 0.54 936, week 0.54 1155, year 0.51 4001, time 0.48 7196, period 0.48 333, hour 0.48 137, celebration 0.46 118, holiday 0.44 215
Translations
- English: no definition