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===Etymology=== | ===Etymology=== | ||
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===Pronunciation=== | ===Pronunciation=== | ||
Revision as of 19:48, 26 October 2020
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From: English there
Pronunciation
- dere*
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 206
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 80
- Frequency in raw corpus: 905
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 391
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Adverb
- dere: place/situation wey be sey e no near di person wey dey talk
- Who dey dere? — (ONI_27_A-Hotelier-Interview_MG__1, Who's there?)
- no go dere. — (Dont go there.)
- someting wey person don say or do wey be sey e no near wetin e dey talk or do now now
- When I write di book, I talk for dere sey e better make I jump from ontop roof dan make I chop beans. — (When I wrote the book, I said there that I'd rather jump from the roof of my house than eat beans)
Derived forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
here 0.68 1186, dis side
Translations
- English: no definition, there