den
Naija
Alternate Form
- dem
Etymology
From: English then
Pronunciation
- dɛ̌n
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 182
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 87
- Frequency in raw corpus: 2052
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 189
Adverb
- na wen dem dey relate matter to time.
- For 1996 I go high school, do youth service, come still do Masters join and since den na im I don enter politics. — (NSC_Agnes_2020,(I graduated in 1996, had Youth Service year and Masters program, then joined politics soon afterwards)
- Nobodi see am again since den. — (bbc__39553,_No one has seen them for awhile_)
- I was very young den, I dey very young you understand. — (KAD_18_My-Gunners-The-Musician_DG__58, I was very young then; very young, understandably.)
- na when dem dey talk say upon wetin dey ground
- 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 cabon in the air and store underground forever.)
- Den wen newspapers and pipo damn de message, e vanish from ELECAM regional centre page. — (bbc__30064,(The message vanished from ELECAM regional centre page after newspapers and people in general damn the message.)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: subsequently
Conjunction
- na when dem wan join someting inside talk
- 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.)
- 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. )
- 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.)
- From den on, Gambino begin make all kind of movement, and some small pikin dem come follow am dey dance. — (bbc__53163, From then onwards, Gambino began dancing and the children followed suit.)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: and
Pronoun
- dem dey use am instead of dem
- 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: next in order