finish

Naija

Etymology

From English finish.

Pronunciation

• ˈfɪnɪʃ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 96
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 140
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1638
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 232

Definition

• Wetin dey happen or wetin de dey do, de don do am reach where be sey noting dey to do again. Sey someting/person do person wetin e no go fit recover from.

Transitive Verb

• Now, I thank God I don finish school.  — (KAD_24_Biography_M__110, Now, I thank God, I have finished school.)
• O boy, you see as dem take finish di former governor?  —  ( Man, did you see how they dealt with the former governor )

Intransitive Verb

• my wife go read my messages o, my own don finish  —  ( My wife read my messages, I am finished )
• Person finish fourth, dey go Europa, dey go struggle.  — (NST_cleaned__14836, __no translation__)

Serial Verb

• We neva count gods and spirits finish if evil gods no dey inside.  — (bbc__98308, __no translation__)
• if de agree finish  — (deuber__2294, __no translation__)

Related forms

• finish line

• seefinish

1. Sey person no get level for anoder person eye.

   I no blame you now, na because I dey follow una dey play na im dey bring all dis seefinish  —  ( I don't blame you, it's only because I have been friendly with you that has caused this disregard )

Synonyms

• complete 0.67 328, expire 0.61 121, close 0.58 843, loose 0.55 110, leave 0.54 1444, loss 0.53 250, off 0.52 315

Antonyms

• Start 0.65 4406, resume 0.57 159

Translations

• English: finish.