from
Naija
Alternative forms
- pursue 0.41 426, chase 0.40 72, run 0.37 1897, pack 0.36 339, drive 0.35 431, dig 0.33 102, near 0.33 1010, rush 0.32 236, later 0.32 1056
Etymology
Borrowed from English from
Pronunciation
- frəm
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 252
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 65
- Frequency in raw corpus: 13276
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 34
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Auxiliary
from: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:20)
- Alamy Where e from come? — (bbc__13659, __no translation__)
- Na United State e from come. — (jw__32892, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- pursue 0.41 426, chase 0.40 72, run 0.37 1897, pack 0.36 339, drive 0.35 431, dig 0.33 102, near 0.33 1010, rush 0.32 236, later 0.32 1056
Antonymes
- pursue 0.41 426, chase 0.40 72, run 0.37 1897, pack 0.36 339, drive 0.35 431, dig 0.33 102, near 0.33 1010, rush 0.32 236, later 0.32 1056
Translations
- English: no definition
Preposition
from: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:13188)
- from head. — (NST_cleaned__33884, __no translation__)
- from dere... — (NST_cleaned__34431, __no translation__)
- dep (frequency:124)
- E don dey bleed from inside. — (IBA_13_Road-Safety_M__53, He had been bleeding from inside.)
- And bleeding from inside, nobody fit stop am. — (IBA_13_Road-Safety_M__54, And bleeding from inside, no one can stop it.)
- conj (frequency:62)
- Okay from now to... — (ENU_34_Malaysia-Guy_MG__11, Okay, from now until...)
- I, I don't want to see it like dat, I want to see it from… — (ONI_13_Current-Interests_DG__132, I don't want to see it like that; I want to see it from...)
- discourse (frequency:8)
- from ehn... — (NST_cleaned__41184, __no translation__)
- And I comot from uh... — (NST_cleaned__33270, __no translation__)
- obl:mod (frequency:6)
- Kurdish population dey from 15-20% of Iraq population. — (bbc__62693, __no translation__)
- Journalists from around di world naim dey vote di winners wit one representative from each kontri. — (bbc__61299, __no translation__)
- advmod (frequency:5)
- Na Benue I from now. — (JOS_30_Northern-Skirmishes_DG__36, It is Benue I came from now.)
- Na where you from now? — (NST_cleaned__18048, __no translation__)
- nsubj (frequency:4)
- She say na Ibadan she from. — (KAD_22_Chatting-At-The-Restaurant_DG__101, She said she was from Ibadan.)
- You know I, I, I, na Benue I from, but I dey school for Kano. — (NST_cleaned__27929, __no translation__)
- advmod:emph (frequency:4)
- I no know where she comot from o! — (KAD_22_Chatting-At-The-Restaurant_DG__10, I don't know where she came from.)
- Na until we fit comot dat dirty from o. — (WAZA_05_Big-Mo_MG__17, Until we're able to take the dirt away from us...)
- advcl (frequency:3)
- From that day go, the disciples wey dey Jerusalem come dey many more more. — (jw__41348, __no translation__)
- Also na only wen flood don high, na im dem dey release wata from more dan 80 dams and dis one kuku make di already bad situation worse. — (bbc__14319, __no translation__)
- conj-dep (frequency:3)
- From di, from January, from January to, for some... — (NST_cleaned__37356, __no translation__)
- Many pipo dey waka for many hours to go fetch water from from lakes, streams and rivers. — (bbc__65555, __no translation__)
- conj:dicto (frequency:3)
- Okay if you see thief from, if you see thief, if you see thief here now carry gun, carry gun now, burst inside here, you go tell am sey oga, park well? — (ONI_19_Make-We-Share-Di-Country_DG__7, Okay, if you see a thief from...if you see a thief...if you see a thief here carrying a gun...carrying a gun and breaks in here, you will tell him that, mister, stay clear !)
- After nine, dose who do... dey for night, de will take over from dem from... to, to di oda day, di second day... morning because before di morning people come take over from dem. — (IBA_15_Electrician_MG__59, After nine, the ones who do... are on the night shift, they will take over for them from... to, to the other day, the second day... morning, because before the morning, people will come to take over for them.)
- cc (frequency:2)
- Kenya state house ADC normally need to stand behind di president alldi times, dey salute for correct time and ina im dey collect gifts and documents to and from di president. — (bbc__62264, __no translation__)
- Less than half of pipo wey dey 16 to 44 don knack at least once a week for di last month Di proportion wey report no sex for di past month don increase - from 23% to 29.3% among women and from 26% to 29.2% among men between 2001 and 2012 Di proportion wey report sex 10 or more times for di past month don fall - from 20.6% to 13.2% among women and from 20.2% to 14.4% among men between 2001 and 2012 Di average number of times wey 35 to 44-year-olds report say dem nack for di past month fall from four to two among women and from four to three among men — (bbc__63755, __no translation__)
Derived forms
- Apart from dat, we can do wiring house. — (IBA_15_Electrician_MG__28, Apart from that, we can do house wiring.)
- I don't have any oder country apart from Malaysia. — (ENU_34_Malaysia-Guy_MG__36, I don't have any other country apart from Malaysia.)* apart from sey
- Dis okra, apart from sey I carry okra take chop, take am take cook food, wetin again I fit use my okra for? — (PRT_02_Food-And-Health_MG__42, This okra, apart from the fact that I grate the okra and I cook with it, what can I use this okra for again?)
- Apart from sey men, deir eye no done (na so, we dey talk am for Pidgin o, deir eye no done, dem no get better friend, ) we, women sef, we bad. (IBA_03_Womanisers_MG__49, So, apart from the fact that men are not focused — (That's how we say it in pidgin. They're not focused. They don't have good friends.), we women, we're bad too.)
Synonymes
- pursue 0.41 426, chase 0.40 72, run 0.37 1897, pack 0.36 339, drive 0.35 431, dig 0.33 102, near 0.33 1010, rush 0.32 236, later 0.32 1056
Antonymes
- pursue 0.41 426, chase 0.40 72, run 0.37 1897, pack 0.36 339, drive 0.35 431, dig 0.33 102, near 0.33 1010, rush 0.32 236, later 0.32 1056
Translations
- English: no definition