Difference between revisions of "eh"
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Revision as of 13:24, 23 August 2020
Naija
Alternative forms
- ehn 0.78 1757, uh 0.71 519, x 0.70 344, ehm 0.65 320, mstchew 0.65 423, ehen 0.64 871, hm 0.63 1176, haha 0.59 836, okay 0.58 1302
Etymology
Borrowed from English eh
Pronunciation
- ɛ
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 426
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 46
- Frequency in raw corpus: 2132
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 183
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Interjection
eh: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:2102)
- Eh — (IBA_37_Buhari-Returns_DG__49, Eh.)
- eh — (deuber__4712, __no translation__)
- cc (frequency:12)
- Eh… — (IBA_08_Music-And-Art-Students_DG__9, Eh,...)
- And eh... — (NST_cleaned__38784, __no translation__)
- discourse (frequency:12)
- Eh en. — (JOS_27_Man-And-Woman_DG__21, No !)
- Eh now. — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__152, Yes sure !)
- dep (frequency:7)
- I, I go to eh... — (NST_cleaned__34410, __no translation__)
- depending on eh... — (NST_cleaned__36859, __no translation__)
- advmod:emph (frequency:5)
- Eh o! — (WAZL_06_Na-Your-Health_DG__197, Eh o !)
- Eh o boy X. — (ABJ_GWA_13_Small-Jobs_DG__90, Yes, X.)
- dislocated (frequency:4)
- cement, eh... — (NST_cleaned__37497, __no translation__)
- Some hunter group, some soldier group, some, eh... — (NST_cleaned__37772, __no translation__)
- obl:mod (frequency:3)
- nineteen ninety four, by nineteen ninety five, early eh... — (NST_cleaned__34506, __no translation__)
- Meh Baba God help dese people, meh de well quick, quick o because eh... — (NST_cleaned__36917, __no translation__)
- advcl:periph (frequency:2)
- If you put your pot for fire, eh... — (NST_cleaned__36226, __no translation__)
- If na garri, you wan use eat, eh... — (NST_cleaned__38086, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- ehn 0.78 1757, uh 0.71 519, x 0.70 344, ehm 0.65 320, mstchew 0.65 423, ehen 0.64 871, hm 0.63 1176, haha 0.59 836, okay 0.58 1302
Antonyms
- ehn 0.78 1757, uh 0.71 519, x 0.70 344, ehm 0.65 320, mstchew 0.65 423, ehen 0.64 871, hm 0.63 1176, haha 0.59 836, okay 0.58 1302
Translations
- English: no definition