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

• Person finish fourth, dey go Europa, dey go struggle.  — (NST_cleaned__14836, If someone finishes fourth and they go to Europe, they will suffer.)
• My wife go read my messages o, my own don finish.  —  ( If my wife reads my messages, I am finished. )

Serial Verb

In a serial verb construction, finish is used as a second verb to add an idea of completion.

• 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

Synonyms

• complete, completely

Antonyms

• start, resume

Translations

• English: finish.