ehen
Naija
Alternative forms
ehn 0.74 1757,
Etymology
Borrowed from English ehen
Pronunciation
- ehen*
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 118
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 120
- Frequency in raw corpus: 817
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 427
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Adverb
ehen: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:36)
- Ehen no! — (NST_cleaned__27527, __no translation__)
- Ehen na so. — (NST_cleaned__7233, __no translation__)
- discourse (frequency:5)
- Ehen so no wahala. — (NST_cleaned__9327, __no translation__)
- Ehen so, na im ma~… — (NST_cleaned__26318, __no translation__)
- advmod:emph (frequency:3)
- Ehen now, I want go bring car now. — (NST_cleaned__26499, __no translation__)
- Ehen now around dat, ehen, dat kind ten o'clock time gan like dis. — (NST_cleaned__22566, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- hm 0.79 1176, haha 0.79 836, mstchew 0.78 423, okay 0.77 1302, ehn 0.74 1757, yes 0.74 760, toh 0.73 307, aha 0.68 300, shey 0.68 167
Antonyms
- hm 0.79 1176, haha 0.79 836, mstchew 0.78 423, okay 0.77 1302, ehn 0.74 1757, yes 0.74 760, toh 0.73 307, aha 0.68 300, shey 0.68 167
Translations
- English: no definition
Interjection
ehen: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:427)
- ehen — (deuber__5192, __no translation__)
- Ehen! — (BEN_19a_Man-Must-Wack_DG__97, Ehen !)
- discourse (frequency:34)
- Ehen ah! — (IBA_25_Buying-Indomie_DG__23, Eh Ah.)
- Eh ehen. — (JOS_34_Constitutional-Law_DG__116, Eh, ehen.)
- advmod:emph (frequency:3)
- Ehen now, — (NST_cleaned__4868, __no translation__)
- Ehen just go your thing, your thing o. — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__55, ehen just go do your own thing.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- hm 0.79 1176, haha 0.79 836, mstchew 0.78 423, okay 0.77 1302, ehn 0.74 1757, yes 0.74 760, toh 0.73 307, aha 0.68 300, shey 0.68 167
Antonyms
- hm 0.79 1176, haha 0.79 836, mstchew 0.78 423, okay 0.77 1302, ehn 0.74 1757, yes 0.74 760, toh 0.73 307, aha 0.68 300, shey 0.68 167
Translations
- English: no definition