day

Naija

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English day

Pronunciation

  • de

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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: time wey reach 24 hours

  1. time for inside 24 hours when e be sey sun dey shine well-well
    D day  — (bbc__26609, __no translation__)
  2. period of time wey start for midnight reach anoder midnight
    After dat day, I get mysef.  — (PRT_07_Drummer_MG__107, Afterwards, I was fine.)
    Airlines dey lose millions per day  — (bbc__13427, __no translation__)
    So any day when school authority don con discover, make dem punish everybody.  — (NST_cleaned__715, __no translation__)
    Since January when dis season start, na evri day somtin dey always trend from di show.  — (bbc__89704, __no translation__)

Derived forms

  1. Evriday wetin dey happen day by day.
    Evriday, we dey get new tori of house wey di tin don enta.  — (bbc__1858, __no translation__)
    Evriday our men dey go around dey look for dis kain girls wey no dey hear word and dey roam about.  — (bbc__2731, __no translation__)
  2. daytime time of day wey be sey sun dey shine
    E fit be sey na for day time.  — (jw__44169, __no translation__)
    We fit pray for daytime or for night.  — (jw__8211, __no translation__)

Synonyms

  • afternoon

Antonyms

  • night

Translations

  • English: day