ehn
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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*
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?
- - (frequency:1373)
- Ehn. — (LAG_02_Oliver-And-Cy_T__101, Ehn.)
- Ehn! — (ONI_14_Girlfriends_DG__106, Ehn.)
- discourse (frequency:13)
- Eh ehn. — (BEN_20_Fasting_DG__83, Eh ehn.)
- Hm ehn. — (IBA_09_Leon-And-Amos_DG__22, Hm ehn.)
- cc (frequency:10)
- Ehn… — (JOS_33_Changing-Nigeria_DG__29, Ehn ?)
- But ehn… — (PRT_10_Market_DG__134, But ehen...)
- 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..)
- 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__)
- 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...)
- 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.)
- 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...)
- 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. )
Derived forms
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