depend

Naija

Alternative forms

• depending 0.88 40, rely 0.87 15, focus 0.85 247, based 0.85 321, depends 0.81 11, behalf 0.79 64, basis 0.76 27, base 0.74 244, penalties 0.70 15

Etymology

Borrowed from English depend

Pronunciation

• dìpɛ̂nd

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 9
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 785
• Frequency in raw corpus: 116
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1889

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Verb

Make person put mind for person or someting.

1. If you no work hard, you go dey depend on your fada.  — (Egbokhare_2020, If you do not work hard, you will be depending on your father for survival.)

   No I no say you go depend on dat one.  — (JOS_21_Marriage-Talk-With-Oscar-1_DG__142, No, I didn't say you will depend on that one.)

Synonyms

• put mind

Translations

• English: rely