everybody

Naija

Alternative forms

• everybodi 0.73 166, people 0.67 20145, nobody 0.66 634, we 0.62 25536, anybody 0.61 695, you 0.59 28881, person 0.59 7008, una 0.57 3531, everyting 0.57 230

Etymology

Borrowed from English everybody

Pronunciation

• ˈɛvriˌbɑdi

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 108
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 132
• Frequency in raw corpus: 994
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 367

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Pronoun

everybody: all di people wey dey involve

1. - (frequency:744)

   Everybody.  — (LAG_19_Nepa-Wahala_DG__108, everybody.)

   everybody.  — (deuber__4418, __no translation__)

2. case (frequency:83)

   Dem dey show love for everybody.  — (jw__6556, __no translation__)

   Life is so difficult for everybody.  — (NST_cleaned__18922, __no translation__)

3. acl:relcl (frequency:71)

   E cure everybody wey dey sick.  — (jw__23813, __no translation__)

   Everybody wey love Jehovah go face temptation.  — (jw__10232, __no translation__)

4. nmod (frequency:48)

   Everybody for Bethel get work.  — (jw__26122, __no translation__)

   Na everybody XX you go lecture.  — (NST_cleaned__3100, __no translation__)

5. dep (frequency:23)

   No be everybody vex sha.  — (bbc__74909, __no translation__)

   But no be everybody dem fit control.  — (jw__35877, __no translation__)

6. advmod (frequency:5)

   Dis pass, na everybody na I wan talk.  — (NST_cleaned__10097, __no translation__)

   Everybody kuku sabi say na so them go do am.  — (katakata__781, __no translation__)

7. cc (frequency:4)

   Dem put theirself and everybody for wahala.  — (jw__23375, __no translation__)

   Wetin dey make economy dey work na when a, b and everybody dey spend and business dey boom;  — (bbc__7657, __no translation__)

8. conj (frequency:4)

   Everybody, everything has to go step by step.  — (ABJ_INF_08_Impatience_DG__77, Everybody, everything has to go step by step.)

   But wetin make am make one angel before e make everybody and everything?  — (jw__4539, __no translation__)

9. acl (frequency:2)

   Everybody for the meeting side Osugo when Okonkwo call am woman.  — (katakata__209, __no translation__)

   Paul write give Christians wey dey Rome, sey: ‘I tell everybody wey dey with una sey, make e no dey think about imself pass the way e suppose think, but make e dey think about how e go get better mind, everybody as God take give am faith.  — (jw__24052, __no translation__)

10. case-dep (frequency:2)

    Di join-bodi wey go help with security for elections gats work with everybody including political parties and civil societies.  — (bbc__35340, __no translation__)

    Hussein say im dey shine im torchlight on top everybody from ground to di ogas at di top including di civilian leader of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi.  — (bbc__56873, __no translation__)

11. amod-case (frequency:2)

    Like everybody else?  — (JOS_40_Travelling-On-Nigerian-Roads_DG__78, Like everybody else ?)

    Aldough, na only of recent everybody as we all, all of us don grow, na me be last born.  — (KAN_01_Aishas-Lifestory_DG__58, Although, it is just of recent that everybody as we all... all of us has grown. I'm the last child.)

12. nmod:emph (frequency:2)

    Everybody d~, eveybody dey bring up im own style,  — (NST_cleaned__18448, __no translation__)

    Everybody self dey do Christmas, my Oga no do Christmas for me.  — (ENU_35_To-Become-A-Man_M__114, Everybody is even celebrating Christmas, my boss did not celebrate Christmas for me.)

Synonyms

• everybodi 0.73 166, people 0.67 20145, nobody 0.66 634, we 0.62 25536, anybody 0.61 695, you 0.59 28881, person 0.59 7008, una 0.57 3531, everyting 0.57 230

Antonyms

• everybodi 0.73 166, people 0.67 20145, nobody 0.66 634, we 0.62 25536, anybody 0.61 695, you 0.59 28881, person 0.59 7008, una 0.57 3531, everyting 0.57 230

Translations

• English: no definition