fast

Naija

Etymology

From English: fast

Pronunciation

• fâst

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 7
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 901
• Frequency in raw corpus: 207
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1293

Adjective

Sey someting dey move quick.

• Di tin dey spread fast fast.  — (bbc__1857,It spreads very fast.)
• So something like eba, if you eat am, when your body want change am to sugar, e dey go high very fast.  — (WAZL_06_Na-Your-Health_DG__259, When you eat something like eba, when your body converts it to sugar, it goes high very fast.)
• I dey wait make e come fast abeg make I go rest,  — (JOS_23_Wedding_DG__30, I am waiting, I want it to come quick, I want to rest.)

Translations

• English: fast, quick

Adverb

Di way wey someting dey go quick.

• But person wey sabi type fit copy words fast fast.  — (bbc__23328, Someone who is good at typing, will be able to copy words very fast.)
• Di tin dey spread fast fast.  — (bbc__1857, It spreads very quickly.)

Translations

• English: very

Noun

When people no dey chop because sey dem dey pray.

• Our tradition for my house na to break di fast wit dates , fruits and cold milkshake.  — (bbc__79650, It is a tradition in my house to break every fast with dates, fruits and cold milkshakes.)
• Muslims across di world dey observe Ramadan fast now.  — (bbc__64490, Muslims across the world observes the Ramadan fast.)

Verb

Intransitive

Make people no chop because dem dey pray.

• Oga Nababhani say pipo need to respect di month and odas wey dey fast.  — (bbc__76791, Mr Nababhani said people need to respect the month and others who fast.)
• Me I fast last week.  — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, I fasted last week.)

Synonyms=

• fasting

Antonyms

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Translations

• English: to abstain from food