ehn

Naija

Alternative forms

• eh 0.78 2575, ehen 0.74 871, mstchew 0.69 423, hm 0.67 1176, x 0.67 344, ehm 0.66 320, uh 0.63 519, haha 0.62 836, maybe 0.61 415

Etymology

Borrowed from English ehn

Pronunciation

• ehn*

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 357
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 53
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1637
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 233

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Interjection

ehn: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:1373)

   Ehn.  — (LAG_02_Oliver-And-Cy_T__101, Ehn.)

   Ehn!  — (ONI_14_Girlfriends_DG__106, Ehn.)

2. discourse (frequency:13)

   Eh ehn.  — (BEN_20_Fasting_DG__83, Eh ehn.)

   Hm ehn.  — (IBA_09_Leon-And-Amos_DG__22, Hm ehn.)

3. cc (frequency:10)

   Ehn…  — (JOS_33_Changing-Nigeria_DG__29, Ehn ?)

   But ehn…  — (PRT_10_Market_DG__134, But ehen...)

4. dep (frequency:6)

   you know sey ehn...  — (NST_cleaned__32853, __no translation__)

   She con talk sey ehn.  — (JOS_04_Mummy-Wahala_DG__15, She then said eh..)

5. advcl:periph (frequency:4)

   When I actually even come sef, ehn...  — (NST_cleaned__34107, __no translation__)

   If you see as the publishers happy ehn!  — (jw__11690, __no translation__)

6. nsubj (frequency:3)

   I ehn...  — (NST_cleaned__35962, __no translation__)

   I'M ehn…  — (ABJ_NOU_01_Death-Of-A-Brother_DG__55, I'm ehn...)

7. vocative (frequency:2)

   Anoda, ehn...  — (NST_cleaned__37707, __no translation__)

   So once e don pound, I go con pour am for mortar ehn... dis thing, wash am,  — (IBA_23_Bitter-Leaf-Soup_MG__62, So once it is pounded, I will pour it into a mortar uh... this thing, wash it.)

8. dislocated (frequency:2)

   Our principal, ehn!  — (BEN_33_School-Issues_DG__7, Our principal !)

   Di whole ehn idea of sey ehn...  — (WAZL_08_Edewor-Lifestory_MG__6, The whole idea of...)

9. conj:dicto (frequency:2)

   If you see am now ehn…  — (ONI_15_Gossiping_DG__118, If you see him now ehn...)

   For ehn, igbo dey, Hausa dey, Yoruba dey,  — (LAG_03_Lagos-Life_M__77, In ehn, there is Igbo; there is Hausa; there is Yoruba. )

Synonyms

• eh 0.78 2575, ehen 0.74 871, mstchew 0.69 423, hm 0.67 1176, x 0.67 344, ehm 0.66 320, uh 0.63 519, haha 0.62 836, maybe 0.61 415

Antonyms

• eh 0.78 2575, ehen 0.74 871, mstchew 0.69 423, hm 0.67 1176, x 0.67 344, ehm 0.66 320, uh 0.63 519, haha 0.62 836, maybe 0.61 415

Translations

• English: no definition