den
Naija
Alternative Form
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
- 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.)
- 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
Translations
- English: Regardless, 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.)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: and
Pronoun
- 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