get
Naija
Etymology
From: English get
Pronunciation
- gɛ́t
Verb
- Sey someting na person own.
- But di thing be sey Naija dey make person get brain. If you no get brain you go begin get am shaperly. — (D_ABJ_INF_08_Impatience, The thing is Nigeria makes you wise. You'll have to get wise.)
- (P_IBA_31_Lens-Sermon, Then the issue of power. Who does not like power? Everyone likes power. The husband wants to exercise power over his wife. The wife wants to exercise power over the husband. Isn't that what we hear in the news today?) — {{{3}}}
- Make someting dey for person hand.
- How much you get for dere? — (NSC_2021, How much do you have with you?)
- Make someting be part of someting.
- Dat motor get better engine. — (NSC_2021, That car has a really good engine.)
- Make person and person use one kind one kind relate.
- How many brodas you get? — (NSC_2021, How many brothers do you have?)
- If you get wife, dey tank God. — (NSC_2021, If you have a wife, be thankful.)
- Make someting dey wey person want or suppose do.
- I get exam, abeg off dat tv. — (NSC_2021, I have exams, pleas turn off the televison.)
- Make someting hold person.
- For dat area, una too dey get malaria. — (NSC_2021, You lot seem to get sick with Malaria in that community quite often.)
- Dis gote, dem dey make am with acha. People wey get diabetes sef, gote dey cure diabetes — (P_JOS_19_Bukuru, This gote, it is made with acha. Gote is good for people with diabetes.)
- Make person/people do someting wey affect person.
- If you like do all night con get exam early momo, you go really allow your village people make dem get you. — (NSC_2021, You will put yourself in harms way if you have an exam early in the morning and then read all night.)
- Make someting dey.
- E get wetin I like follow you reason. — (NSC_2021, There is someting I'll like to talk to you about.)
- e get one soup like dat wey Mama Maro bin teach me. Di soup make sense. I hear sey na Ibo soup. — (D_ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church, Maro's mother taught me how to make a soup. The soup tastes really nice. I heard it's an Igbo soup.)
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Translations
- English: have