fine

Naija

Alternative forms

• chop 0.59 2029, cost 0.58 453, blood 0.58 500, bread 0.57 205, drink 0.56 652, breast 0.56 213, shoe 0.56 110, bag 0.54 175, sugar 0.54 158

Etymology

Borrowed from English fine

Pronunciation

• fáìn

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 27
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 373
• Frequency in raw corpus: 762
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 455

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Adjective

fine: beautiful, handsome, pretty -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Di babe too fine.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:380)

   Fine.  — (ENU_23_Chizom-Talk_DG__6, Fine.)

   Fine!  — (NST_cleaned__14466, __no translation__)

3. det (frequency:22)

   Goment later reduce di fine to 1.7billion dollars.  — (bbc__54496, __no translation__)

   Di fine fit reach from one million to ten million naira.  — (bbc__34473, __no translation__)

4. obl:mod (frequency:19)

   City collect fine of ÂŁ49m for 2014 for one regulation wey dem bin no obey.  — (bbc__37918, __no translation__)

   Di alternative be say dem go slam fine of N5 million on top di lecturer head.  — (bbc__32990, __no translation__)

5. case (frequency:17)

   No dat issue of fine,…  — (NST_cleaned__20858, __no translation__)

   So you know as you fine, me know sey me no be ugly girl,  — (BEN_28_Radio-Drama-Flirting_DG__129, So, you know, as you are fine I know that me I am not ugly.)

6. advmod (frequency:11)

   Ehn tell am sey I dey fine now.  — (LAG_08_Austin-And-Donald_DG__72, Ehen, tell her that I am fine.)

   But I, me con tell you sey you be very fine woman now.  — (BEN_28_Radio-Drama-Flirting_DG__120, But me I then told you that you are a very fine woman.)

7. nsubj (frequency:8)

   E fine.  — (JOS_19_Bukuru_MG__27, It's fine.)

   Dat car fine.  — (IBA_22_School-Children_DG__54, That car is fine.)

8. mark (frequency:7)

   And guy dey also find babe wey fine,  — (BEN_30_Husband-Criteria_DG__143, And the guy is also looking for a girl that is fine.)

   She just see guy wey she like, wey fine,  — (NST_cleaned__26768, __no translation__)

9. cc (frequency:6)

   Mugabe, but she dey safe and fine.  — (bbc__17010, __no translation__)

   How no putting her, and no fine connect?  — (JOS_26_Small-Talk_DG__162, How does not putting hers and not being beautiful connect ?)

10. conj (frequency:5)

    Fine, fine, fine,  — (NST_cleaned__841, __no translation__)

    With di penis bleashing, people wan fine or white for everywhere and dem believe say white private part dey fine pass.  — (bbc__100989, __no translation__)

11. obl:arg (frequency:5)

    E dey illegal make woman dress for sake of say she wan fine for Saudi Arabia.  — (bbc__44232, __no translation__)

    To wear makeup dey fine for face but no be chikini money dem dey use buy am, especially di big-big brands wey dey market.  — (bbc__94396, __no translation__)

12. obj (frequency:2)

    Fifa don ban Samson Siasia for life Fifa ban Caf oga for 10 years wit $500k fine  — (bbc__49074, __no translation__)

    Di dead rat been dey inside di boiling pot One big Chinese restaurant don chop $190m fine afta pregnant woman see dead rat inside her soup wen she go eat dia early September.  — (bbc__34035, __no translation__)

13. amod (frequency:2)

    Scientists don test di vaccine with rat and e work fine fine.  — (bbc__87219, __no translation__)

    But ehn as ehn ehn Bernard take talk, all dat oder one wey e dey talk o true, true fine, eh even di holy book still talk am sey wetin you wan give, no let right eh, left hand to know.  — (IBA_39_Easter-Preparations_DG__68, But eh, as eh Bernard has said, all those things you are talking about is true indeed, eh even the Holy Book said that whatever you want to give, do not let right, eh left hand to know.)

14. cc-nsubj (frequency:2)

    E get one morning wey I go outside, everywhere white and e fine.  — (jw__11736, __no translation__)

    Government also warn say di offence go attract fine wey no go pass Sh50,000 Kenya money or six months in prison or both fine.  — (bbc__54670, __no translation__)

Synonymes

• chop 0.59 2029, cost 0.58 453, blood 0.58 500, bread 0.57 205, drink 0.56 652, breast 0.56 213, shoe 0.56 110, bag 0.54 175, sugar 0.54 158

Antonymes

• chop 0.59 2029, cost 0.58 453, blood 0.58 500, bread 0.57 205, drink 0.56 652, breast 0.56 213, shoe 0.56 110, bag 0.54 175, sugar 0.54 158

Translations

• English: beautiful, handsome, pretty