eh

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

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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?

1. - (frequency:2102)

   Eh  — (IBA_37_Buhari-Returns_DG__49, Eh.)

   eh  — (deuber__4712, __no translation__)

2. cc (frequency:12)

   Eh…  — (IBA_08_Music-And-Art-Students_DG__9, Eh,...)

   And eh...  — (NST_cleaned__38784, __no translation__)

3. discourse (frequency:12)

   Eh en.  — (JOS_27_Man-And-Woman_DG__21, No !)

   Eh now.  — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__152, Yes sure !)

4. dep (frequency:7)

   I, I go to eh...  — (NST_cleaned__34410, __no translation__)

   depending on eh...  — (NST_cleaned__36859, __no translation__)

5. 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.)

6. dislocated (frequency:4)

   cement, eh...  — (NST_cleaned__37497, __no translation__)

   Some hunter group, some soldier group, some, eh...  — (NST_cleaned__37772, __no translation__)

7. 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__)

8. 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__)

Synonymes

• 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

Antonymes

• 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