day
Naija
Alternative forms
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