do

Naija

Etymology

From English: do

Pronunciation

• dû

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 840
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 25
• Frequency in raw corpus: 19271
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 25

Verb

1. Make person do someting.

   • Wetin you want do for future.  — (KAN_01_Aishas-Lifestory_DG__27, What do want to do in the future?)
   • Go and do di work.  — (NST_cleaned__38813, Go and do the work.)
   • Wetin I want do for house,  — (JOS_26_Small-Talk_DG__13, What do I want to do at home ?)

2. Make person dey behave/ reason tings.

   • So na so dey do.  — (ABJ_GWA_10_Steven-Lifestory_MG__91, So, that is how they behave.)
   • Na so dem dey do for dis place.  — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, That's how they behave at this place.)

Translations

• English: do, behave