die

Naija

Etymology

From English die

Pronunciation

• daɪ̂

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 67
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 192
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1286
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 289

Definition

• Make person/someting payin.

Verb

intransitive

1. Abeg, face di oder side, I no wan die.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, Please, turn to the other side, I'm not ready to die.)
2. If you con expose unasef, con get COVID-19,you fit die o.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, If you expose yourself carelessly and contact COVID-19, you may die.)

Related form

• die di matter

Synonyms

• payin, kpeme

Antonyms

• born

Translations

• English: to stop living