gbege

Naija

Alternative forms

kasala , katakata, fight-fight

Etymology

from: unknown

Pronunciation

• gbègé

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 5
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1178
• Frequency in raw corpus: 249
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1141

Noun

gbege: problem, a clash -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   I no wan any gbege o.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:54)

   I don enter gbege.  — (ABJ_INF_05_On-Pidgin_M__19, I am in trouble.)

   E reach 13 states wey gbege happun.  — (bbc__45136, __no translation__)

3. det (frequency:44)

   Anoder gbege?  — (IBA_42_Barrabas_DG__33, Another trouble ?)

   Because Pidgin na im be di gbege.  — (NST_cleaned__2549, __no translation__)

4. amod (frequency:21)

   Afta much gbege di organisers allow am.  — (bbc__22148, __no translation__)

   Cult gbege kill at least one pesin for daylight shooting  — (bbc__26534, __no translation__)

5. case-det (frequency:21)

   Gun cartridge wey fall for ground during di gbege  — (bbc__55078, __no translation__)

   AFP Governor for Rivers State carri waka go see tins wey scatter during di gbege.  — (bbc__9982, __no translation__)

6. amod-det (frequency:5)

   Around dis time, di BBC reporter begin use phone record di whole gbege.  — (bbc__17394, __no translation__)

   Na when dem try dey counter one anoda, di whole gbege start tok one resident wey no want make im name comot.  — (bbc__5258, __no translation__)

7. det-nmod (frequency:5)

   One member of di women football squad, Raisa Ajeba say she bin dey train di same day di gbege happun.  — (bbc__78375, __no translation__)

   Thousands of people don scatter, many run enter Nigeria, since di gbege for di English-speaking regions of Cameroon increase.  — (bbc__93849, __no translation__)

8. dep-det (frequency:3)

   Any gbege you bring come, any gbege you bring come, Nigerian man dey inside.  — (ABJ_INF_03_Nigerian-Men-Dey-Try_DG__128, Any challenge you bring up, Nigerian man is involved.)

   Di gbege wey happun for 1950-53 stop wen di two Koreans agree to stop, but dem no stamp am for paper.  — (bbc__29074, __no translation__)

9. case (frequency:2)

   No fear of rumours of gbege.  — (bbc__5398, __no translation__)

   De say, Eritrea collect ein independa from Ethiopia, during di year 1993 after one 30-year ozighi wey dem do, and with anoda border gbege, wey happen for five years, wey plenty ten of thousand of pipo kpai inside.  — (ja102__800, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• kasala 0.90 264, incident 0.79 154, katakata 0.78 257, kata-kata 0.74 41, protests 0.73 157, confusion 0.72 89, fight-fight 0.68 236, explosion 0.68 149, fighting 0.63 52

Antonyms

• kasala 0.90 264, incident 0.79 154, katakata 0.78 257, kata-kata 0.74 41, protests 0.73 157, confusion 0.72 89, fight-fight 0.68 236, explosion 0.68 149, fighting 0.63 52

Translations

• English: problem, a clash