dere

Naija

Alternative forms

• there 0.79 972, here 0.68 1186, where 0.64 3085, ehn 0.58 1757, outside 0.56 702, drive 0.53 431, farm 0.52 413, dirty 0.52 242, anywhere 0.51 224

Etymology

Borrowed from English dere

Pronunciation

• dere*

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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: no definition, there -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:711)

   Who dey dere?  — (ONI_27_A-Hotelier-Interview_MG__1, Who's there?)

   Don'T go dere.  — (ONI_04_Women_M__45, Dont go there.)

2. case (frequency:189)

   Na for dere.  — (NST_cleaned__8051, __no translation__)

   from dere...  — (NST_cleaned__34431, __no translation__)

3. advmod (frequency:9)

   So he was thinking he would get di two dere.  — (ONI_13_Current-Interests_DG__124, So, he was thinking he would get the two there.)

   Go to Bodija now, go, and see what is happening dere.  — (IBA_18_Money-Wahala_M__48, Go to Bodija now, go and see what is happening there.)

4. cc (frequency:7)

   Look at di building here and dere.  — (ONI_07_Dis-Year-Na-My-Year_MG__1, Look at the buildings here and there.)

   everything dey fluctuate here and dere  — (deuber__5173, __no translation__)

5. conj (frequency:3)

   So dere, and den, patapata, I just come back.  — (KAD_13_Entering-University_MG__89, So there and then, I finally came back.)

   den it means di thing go affect dose wey know book dere and dose people wey carry expo  — (deuber__2333, __no translation__)

6. appos (frequency:3)

   My guy dey dere Christiano Ronaldo.  — (NST_cleaned__20346, __no translation__)

   So as I carry you go outside work, so e give you work dere to, to do.  — (NST_cleaned__11286, __no translation__)

7. obl:mod (frequency:3)

   and to di glory of God di man kuku dey dere with di wife  — (deuber__884, __no translation__)

   But since when I leave di work, hm na dere o wahala start.  — (NST_cleaned__23364, __no translation__)

8. mark (frequency:2)

   if dere...  — (NST_cleaned__32902, __no translation__)

   You fit go anywhere now if you... if you note... if dere...  — (WAZL_08_Edewor-Lifestory_MG__94, Yo can go anywhere now if you... if you note... if there...)

Synonymes

• there 0.79 972, here 0.68 1186, where 0.64 3085, ehn 0.58 1757, outside 0.56 702, drive 0.53 431, farm 0.52 413, dirty 0.52 242, anywhere 0.51 224

Antonymes

• there 0.79 972, here 0.68 1186, where 0.64 3085, ehn 0.58 1757, outside 0.56 702, drive 0.53 431, farm 0.52 413, dirty 0.52 242, anywhere 0.51 224

Translations

• English: no definition, there

Pronoun

dere: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:55)

   Dere are…  — (WAZL_10_Oga-Madam_DG__50, There are...)

   Dere was dis eh...  — (BEN_36_Clever-Girl_MG__2, There was this, uh...)

Synonymes

• there 0.79 972, here 0.68 1186, where 0.64 3085, ehn 0.58 1757, outside 0.56 702, drive 0.53 431, farm 0.52 413, dirty 0.52 242, anywhere 0.51 224

Antonymes

• there 0.79 972, here 0.68 1186, where 0.64 3085, ehn 0.58 1757, outside 0.56 702, drive 0.53 431, farm 0.52 413, dirty 0.52 242, anywhere 0.51 224

Translations

• English: no definition