depend

Naija

Etymology

From English: depend

Pronunciation

• dìpɛ̂nd

Play Play

Frequency

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

Verb

Make person put mind for person or someting.

• 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 no that you will rely on it.)

Translations

• English: rely