Difference between revisions of "den"

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===Conjunction===
 
===Conjunction===
#na when dem wan join someting inside talk
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#Na word wey de dey take join sentence put for sentence make di [[talk]] for complete.
#:* {{ux|dv|Another major issue Ghanaians dey expect be in di area of roads '''den''' infrastructure. |(bbc__15737, Another major issue Ghanaians have expectation is in the area of roads and infrastructure.)}}
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''Go look'' [[naim]]
#:*{{ux|dv|Police for di region release names '''den''' pictures of some of di suspects give di public say of anyone get filla, dem go fit assist police. |(bbc__82495,(The regional Police released the names of the suspects and then added pictures of some of the suspects to the public for assistance in their investigation police. )}}
 
#:*{{ux|dv|President Nana Akufo-Addo, '''den''' im Vice President sit for di VVIP Lounge for di Airport as dem dey chat '''den''' smile. |(bbc__83540,(President Nana Akufo-Addo and his Vice President sat at the VVIP Lounge at the Airport while chatting and later smiled at each other.)}}
 
====Synonyms====
 
[[and]]
 
====Translations====
 
* English: ''and''
 
  
 
===Pronoun===
 
===Pronoun===

Revision as of 16:01, 19 November 2020

Naija

Alternative Form

Etymology

From: English then

Pronunciation

  • dɛ̌n

Play Play

Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 182
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 87
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 2052
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 189

Adverb

  1. As matter take concern time.
    • For 1996 I go high school, do youth service, con still do Masters join, den I enter politics.  — (NSC_Agnes_2020, I graduated in 1996, served in the National Youth Service corps, still did my Masters then joined politics afterwards.)
  2. As dem dey talk put join wetin de don first talk.
    • Even den, we go still need machines, trees and plants to capture carbon for di air wey we fit store for underground - forever.  — (bbc__47473, Regardless of what is on ground there is a need to acquire machines, trees and plants to capture carbon in the air and store underground forever.)

Synonyms

after

Translations

  • English: Regardless, subsequently

Conjunction

  1. Na word wey de dey take join sentence put for sentence make di talk for complete.

Go look naim

Pronoun

  1. dem dey use am instead of 'dem' for some places
    • Den con born we.  — (NST_cleaned__23335,(Then, we were born.)
    • Den go know sey we don do am finish.  — (NST_cleaned_38779, Then they will know we have finished it.)

Translations

  • English: used to indicate next thing in order of occurrence