find

Naija

Alternative forms

• bring 0.63 2022, flush 0.56 23, sort 0.52 35, knock 0.51 85, look 0.51 2331, roll 0.51 63, search 0.49 252, keep 0.49 813, survive 0.48 296

Etymology

Borrowed from English find

Pronunciation

• faɪnd

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 56
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 222
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2254
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 176

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Verb

find: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. obj (frequency:179)

   Go find motor.  — (deuber__3590, __no translation__)

   Find better friends,  — (jw__10659, __no translation__)

2. mark-obj (frequency:147)

   but e still dey easy to find dem.  — (bbc__53805, __no translation__)

   Man U need to find way to handle Messi  — (bbc__65158, __no translation__)

3. aux-obj (frequency:47)

   How dem take dey find deir own?  — (BEN_30_Husband-Criteria_DG__37, How do dey find their own ?)

   So dem go dey dere dey find plan.  — (WAZA_03_Obi-Lifestory_MG__65, So they will be there, looking for plans.)

4. nsubj-obj (frequency:37)

   Im find better wife.  — (JOS_31_Psqaure-And-Efe_DG__21, He finds a good wife.)

   Im pikin find trouble.  — (ABJ_INF_09a_Children-Story_M__45, His child found trouble.)

5. - (frequency:30)

   She must find one ting to do.  — (ABJ_GWA_11_Hungry-No-Go-Kill-Us_DG__98, She must find something to do.)

   Dem go find firewood, go for bush,  — (NST_cleaned__29132, __no translation__)

6. aux-nsubj (frequency:30)

   De dey find...  — (ENU_02_Christmas-At-New-Berries_MG__45, They were looking for...)

   Na you I dey find.  — (BEN_27_Boy-And-Girl_DG__115, I was looking for you.)

7. cc-obj (frequency:15)

   We go siddon and try and find solution.  — (bbc__5343, __no translation__)

   So, I dey order you to go back and find way to settle palava for una area.  — (bbc__6141, __no translation__)

8. mark (frequency:9)

   Some people don dey try to find  — (jw__32662, __no translation__)

   She say she know good HMOs dey but dem scarce and e hard to find.  — (bbc__90546, __no translation__)

9. nsubj (frequency:9)

   Na only im deadi bodi dem find...Dem no fit save am, Eiwnetu add.  — (bbc__5168, __no translation__)

   No when we come back, we go ask am who im marry, where dem fin-, where e find am?  — (WAZL_14_Kulele-Zone_DG__135, no when we come back, we would ask him whom he married and where he found her.)

10. advcl-obj (frequency:9)

    If person dey, im go just go find work do before im chop.  — (NST_cleaned__16417, __no translation__)

    If e reach four, you can vex, find di one wey stubborn, pursue am so dat chance go dey.  — (WAZK_11_Chiagozies-Life-Story_M__108, If they are up to four, you can be angry and look for the one that's stubborn, send her away so that there will be chance.)

11. aux (frequency:8)

    Come if you dey try dey find  — (jw__6019, __no translation__)

    Na di one, na di one wey e don done finish you dey find.  — (NST_cleaned__26533, __no translation__)

12. aux-mark (frequency:6)

    continue to dey find, and una go see;  — (jw__20475, __no translation__)

    So you fit tell me one, one ting wen you don find?  — (WAZL_11_Kabuchi_DG__74, So, can you tell me one, one thing that you have found ?)

13. dep-obj (frequency:5)

    I just go find some kind of work because me…  — (ABJ_GWA_11_Hungry-No-Go-Kill-Us_DG__50, I went to find job because.)

    Nigeria dey take all im eye find money because of the deficit for dia 2018 budget.  — (bbc__73509, __no translation__)

14. conj (frequency:4)

    Write wetin you want find or choose wetin dey and press Find .  — (jw__47102, __no translation__)

    Now, women - mothers no get choice but to go find and bury di dead bodi of dia pikin dem and town pipo.  — (bbc__75730, __no translation__)

15. conj-obj (frequency:3)

    I come back, con hussle, find money, carry drink, go give dier people.  — (NST_cleaned__1216, __no translation__)

    Im say na police find di foreigners and dem don arrest one suspect on top di kidnap matter.  — (bbc__59208, __no translation__)

16. ccomp (frequency:2)

    Later, we con, we con find sey, later, we con find sey na im thieve am.  — (ONI_16_Thief_DG__31, Later, we then... we then found out that... later, we then found out that, it was her who stole it.)

    Switzerland government wey be part of di countries wey help Nigeria find di money bin do agreement say dem go only return di money if dem sure say Nigeria go use for better development things like roads, water, medicine and education.  — (bbc__92834, __no translation__)

17. obl:arg (frequency:2)

    I gats wear, I gats go find for market.  — (JOS_21_Marriage-Talk-With-Oscar-1_DG__109, I have to wear... I have to go and find it in the market.)

    As pesin wey start to dey ate at 14 years, I don dey tink and ttok about wetin I wan find for my partner and also wia I go find am.  — (bbc__17326, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• bring 0.63 2022, flush 0.56 23, sort 0.52 35, knock 0.51 85, look 0.51 2331, roll 0.51 63, search 0.49 252, keep 0.49 813, survive 0.48 296

Antonyms

• bring 0.63 2022, flush 0.56 23, sort 0.52 35, knock 0.51 85, look 0.51 2331, roll 0.51 63, search 0.49 252, keep 0.49 813, survive 0.48 296

Translations

• English: no definition