ehn
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From: Unknown
Pronunciation
- ɛ̀hɛ̃n*
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 357
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 53
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1637
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 233
Interjection
- ehn:
- Ehn. — (LAG_02_Oliver-And-Cy_T__101, Ehn.)
- Ehn! — (ONI_14_Girlfriends_DG__106, Ehn.)
- 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.)
- 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
Translations
- English: really?