dey

Naija

From: English they

Word wey fit dress near anoder word for back to show sey di talk talk matter don begin but never happen finish.
- E dey come. — (He/she is coming.)
- She said she dey chop, sey when she chop finish, she go call you. — (She said she is eating, when she is done, she’ll call you.)
Word wey fit dress near anoder word for back to show sey di talk talk matter na wetin always fit happen every time.
- E dey go school. — (He/She goes to school.)
- All dis people wey Niger Delta, na dem, dey chop di soup. — (IBA_23_Bitter-Leaf-Soup_MG__44, The soup of common among the Niger Delta people.)
- Mr Tinubu say pipo suppose to dey preach peace. — (bbc_68635, Mr Tinubu said that people should preach peace.)
- As me I be, I be di kind man wey be sey I dey like to dey talk true, and I dey very straightforward. — (NST_cleaned__3071, I am very forthright in everything.)

From: Unknown

Word wey fit show how person or someting kampe.
- I dey. — (ENU_30_Animals-Rights-In-Usa_T__4, I am fine.)
Word wey fit dress near anoder word for front to show where person put body stay.
- AFP Shell don face serious palava with di people wey dey oil producing areas. — (bbc__10375, AFP Shell are disputing with those occupying oil producing areas.)
- Im tok about di quarrel between im and Minister for Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as well as di riverine and upland argument for wia di next guvnor suppose come from, say na di turn of Rivers south east senatorial district wia Ogoni pipo dey, to produce di next govnor. — (bbc__59622, He spoke on the altercation he had with the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as well as the tussle on the zoning arrangement for the forthcoming gubernatorial elections where the understanding was that it was the turn of the Ogonis of Rivers south east senatorial district to field the governorship candidate.)
Word wey fit dress near anoder word for front to show how person or someting fit take con be or how someting don be.
- Na only one winner go dey and e go get one year academic scholarship wey go cover academic text books wey di winner need. — (bbc__71627, There shall be a single winner who will get a one year scholarship that will cover the cost of the necessary textbooks.)
- Wetin come dey? — (ABJ_GWA_13_Small-Jobs_DG__142, What is left/there?)

English: be + (manner) adverb, (complementiser) that + (place) adverb, for something to remain