deir
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From English deir
Pronunciation
- djà
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 164
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 93
- Frequency in raw corpus: 747
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 463
Pronoun
- Use for group of person minus de speaker.
- deir problem be sey dem no dey hear word. — (Egbokhare_2021, Their problem is that they do not listen.)
- Maybe Buhari no wan pay deir, deir salary now. — (ABJ_INF_08_Impatience_DG__148, Maybe Buhari does not want to pay their salary now.)
- All my friends de are dere wit me, and let dem take care of deir sef, meh dem be careful for, for two thousand and eighteen wey de have so. — (ONI_02_I-Like-My-Girlfriend-So-Much_M__34, All my friends that are there with me, let them take care of themselves; let them be careful in...in... two thousand and eighteen which they are now.)
Related forms
- deirsef
Antonyms
- our 0.64 5912
Translations
- English: their.