food
Naija
Alternative forms
- meat 0.75 329, fruit 0.72 162, beans 0.72 97, rice 0.71 419, drugs 0.70 275, water 0.70 1456, light 0.69 655, fish 0.69 323, garri 0.69 127
Etymology
Borrowed from English food
Pronunciation
- fud
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 110
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 129
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1192
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 311
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
food: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:518)
- Food — (bbc__49443, __no translation__)
- Food dey. — (JOS_21_Marriage-Talk-With-Oscar-1_DG__70, There's food.)
- det (frequency:82)
- Which food? — (JOS_32_School-And-Party-Politics_DG__73, Which food ?)
- Den eat dis food — (bbc__100086, __no translation__)
- case (frequency:81)
- Na we know di taste of food. — (KAD_06_Cooking_DG__240, It is us who know the taste of food.)
- You fit do anyting for food. — (IBA_31_Lens-Sermon_MG__48, You can do anything to get food.)
- amod (frequency:77)
- Fast food — (bbc__48722, __no translation__)
- solid food. — (NST_cleaned__33117, __no translation__)
- conj (frequency:55)
- e give us food and water. — (jw__18075, __no translation__)
- And clothes, food, and all that. — (NST_cleaned__16020, __no translation__)
- nmod (frequency:14)
- Na food for diabetic patients. — (NST_cleaned__42083, __no translation__)
- John food na locust and bush honey — (jw__21411, __no translation__)
- amod-det (frequency:13)
- Me, I no dey chop dat kind food. — (IBA_09_Leon-And-Amos_DG__243, I, I don't eat that type of food.)
- But di main food na pounded yam. — (IBA_02_Igwe-Festival_MG__19, But the main food is pounded yam.)
- cc (frequency:11)
- Better house and food go dey for everybody. — (jw__9164, __no translation__)
- Add N400 for one paint of garri and food don set be dat. — (bbc__90978, __no translation__)
- dep (frequency:8)
- God come send some angel come give Jesus food chop. — (jw__31630, __no translation__)
- Food wey pepper dey inside fit increase di sickness? — (bbc__49465, __no translation__)
- advmod (frequency:6)
- No school fees, no food. — (IBA_21_Obodo-Barracks_MG__25, No school fees, no food.)
- Nothing, de talk say no food, — (LAG_16_Calista-Adeola_DG__57, Nothing, they said no food.)
- dep-det (frequency:6)
- The food we dey enjoy, — (jw__35131, __no translation__)
- Even though all of dem na di food wey e be sey body dey convert to sugar. — (NST_cleaned__15432, __no translation__)
- acl (frequency:4)
- De no get where de dey sleep, de no get food to chop, de no even get clothes. — (ABJ_INF_07_Street-Children_M__20, They don't have a definite place where they sleep, they don't have food to eat, they don't even have clothes.)
- Make kuku hold di mama, hold di bird together, lock dem for one place, give dem food to chop. — (WAZL_15_MC-Abi_MG__35, Just hold the mother and the child together, lock them somewhere and give them food to eat.)
- appos (frequency:4)
- Di guy, dem go con dey garnish di food di oweide rice. — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__31, The guy... they will then garnish the food, the oweide rice.)
- Di $3.6 billion na for UNICEF to provide food, hospital, water, schools and clean areas dem for pickin for 51 countries plus Nigeria. — (bbc__30267, __no translation__)
- nsubj (frequency:2)
- Im broder give am drink, e give am food. — (BEN_15c_Theology-Church-Finances_DG__106, His brother entertained him with drinks. He served him food.)
- Di broder no give am drink, e no give am food. — (BEN_15c_Theology-Church-Finances_DG__112, The brother refuses to serve him drinks. He did not serve him food.)
- acl-cc (frequency:2)
- Dis na why anybody wey come meet me from Zamfara I go give an place to stay and food to eat until e go fit stand on im own. — (bbc__5792, __no translation__)
- E promise to reduce di number of Nigerians wey dey try enter Europe illegally through di Sahara Desert and di Mediterranean Sea by giving dem education, healthcare, and food to see chop for home. — (bbc__20830, __no translation__)
Derived forms
- Make you pikin chop beta food. — (bbc__64996, __no translation__)
- Chop beta food so dat you and your family no go sick dey go hospital evri time. — (bbc__25545, __no translation__)* cow food
- Dem even find am go reach where we dey put cow food. — (jw__40071, __no translation__)
- Nigeria government bin ask NAPRI make dem help to dey produce cow food as dem wan begin do cattle colonies for some states. — (bbc__73766, __no translation__)* food event
- EatDrinkFestival na big food event for Lagos, Nigeria, wey dey allow vendors sell food to plenty people — (bbc__46320, __no translation__)
- #EatDrinkFestival na one of di big food event wey Eat.DrinkLagos arrange for people to come chop and jollificate for Nigeria economic capital wey be Lagos — (bbc__8073, __no translation__)* food show
- food show. — (NST_cleaned__38212, __no translation__)
- And den ehn... food show. — (WAZP_07_Imonirhua-Lifestory_MG__63, And then uh... the food show.)* king food
- Dem want make dem dey eat the king food. — (jw__36450, __no translation__)
- But Daniel no want “dirty imself with the king food.”— Dan. — (jw__36452, __no translation__)* night food
- Dem say you wey dey chop late night food, sey you get big risk of to get diabetes, plus including heart disease. — (WAZA_04_Press-Review_DG__73, They said you who eats late night meals, that you have a big risk of getting diabetes and heart disease.)
- So im don, dat, dat ting don teach me sey if you wan cook beans, bring am out because for my house, my daddy, my papa no dey like late night food. — (PRT_08_Children_M__61, So he has... that... that thing has taught me that if you want to cook beans, bring it out because in my house, my daddy, my father does not like late night food.)
Synonymes
- meat 0.75 329, fruit 0.72 162, beans 0.72 97, rice 0.71 419, drugs 0.70 275, water 0.70 1456, light 0.69 655, fish 0.69 323, garri 0.69 127
Antonymes
- meat 0.75 329, fruit 0.72 162, beans 0.72 97, rice 0.71 419, drugs 0.70 275, water 0.70 1456, light 0.69 655, fish 0.69 323, garri 0.69 127
Translations
- English: no definition