give

Naija

Alternative forms

give

Etymology

Borrowed from English give

Pronunciation

• gɪv

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 240
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 70
• Frequency in raw corpus: 8618
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 44

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Verb

give: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. obj (frequency:1508)

   Give example.  — (jw__46739, __no translation__)

   Give pipo time  — (bbc__54255, __no translation__)

2. mark-obj (frequency:344)

   to give us life.  — (jw__48843, __no translation__)

   E talk sey: “I give dem hand!  — (jw__13768, __no translation__)

3. aux-obj (frequency:171)

   Con give me.  — (ABJ_GWA_08_David-Lifestory_MG__173, Then he gave it to me.)

   dey give us life.  — (jw__48675, __no translation__)

4. - (frequency:109)

   Make I go give…  — (ENU_25_Boss-And-Apprentice_DG__302, Let me go and give...)

   Den I con go give.  — (ABJ_GWA_13_Small-Jobs_DG__206, I then went to gave...)

5. cc-obj (frequency:76)

   E still help dem and give dem mind.  — (jw__1218, __no translation__)

   Na im fit save us and give us life.  — (jw__25690, __no translation__)

6. obl:arg (frequency:30)

   Lai Mohammed b'cos of some heavy lie wey both of dem lie give wi public.  — (ja102__3933, __no translation__)

   If she, de no want drive, de go use okada take carry am, go give am for shop.  — (PRT_10_Market_DG__169, If she... they didn't want to drive, they will use motorcycle to carry it to go and give her in the shop.)

7. dep-obj (frequency:28)

   Make I go take quotation, give am di, my estimate.  — (ABJ_GWA_04_Tins-Don-Hard-For-Everywhere_DG__58, Let me prepare my quotation and give him a budget estimate.)

   God, na im you wan give dat money to, God know sey you no get.  — (BEN_15b_Theology-Offerings_DG__31, You wanted to give that money to God. God knows that you don't have anything to give.)

8. conj-obj (frequency:19)

   Instead, e shout give David men and curse dem.  — (jw__5256, __no translation__)

   Con begin serve food, carry go give relations, go give friends, neighbours.  — (NST_cleaned__39249, __no translation__)

9. nsubj (frequency:13)

   na only you we give.  — (jw__48773, __no translation__)

   If we follow the advice Jehovah de give  — (jw__16616, __no translation__)

10. mark (frequency:9)

    I know di person wey I give.  — (ONI_15_Gossiping_DG__48, I know the person that I gave.)

    Sey she need fifty thousand to give…  — (ONI_18b_Na-So-Belle-Don-Shoot_M__2, That she needs fifth thousand naira to do...)

11. aux-mark (frequency:8)

    Make we dey ready to dey give.  — (jw__22893, __no translation__)

    E know sey e good for us to dey give.  — (jw__8772, __no translation__)

12. conj (frequency:6)

    e come yarn give say one fulani herdsman still dey miss.  — (bbc__102314, __no translation__)

    give or gree sey e go give or give person wey adopt pikin money or anything wey dis subsection no allow.  — (hildrights__407, __no translation__)

13. ccomp (frequency:5)

    But afta more than four hours of break, di court come rule give say PDP complain true-true no get weight.  — (bbc__21738, __no translation__)

    UNHCR say most of di people wey dem carry give Yaoundé bin don already apply for asylum for Nigeria, and di return happen even as UNHCR bin dey try talk to di authorities.  — (bbc__96752, __no translation__)

14. advmod (frequency:4)

    Dis story wen I wan give now, na about my own life experience.  — (BEN_02_Andrew-Lifestory_MG__1, This story I wanna tell now is about my own life experience.)

    If teacher come dey flog tomorrow now, you go say I wicked, I no give you.  — (IBA_22_School-Children_DG__225, If the teacher starts floigging tomorrow now you'd say I'm wicked that I did not give you.)

15. aux (frequency:3)

    di tankers go go buy some places na tanker dey give.  — (deuber__5874, __no translation__)

    Sey when people dey contribute dey talk, e just be like sey na im de dey minister, dey give,  — (NST_cleaned__28274, __no translation__)

16. advcl (frequency:2)

    Meanwhile, Belkabla don come out to apologise give im team-mates and the Algerian people as the team preparations for the African Cup of Nations continue.  — (brila__985, __no translation__)

    di court wey dem send di report give as e dey subsection of dis part get power to change di non-workingplaceal order, any time e see am sey sey e good for di matter.  — (hildrights__1322, __no translation__)

17. det-obj (frequency:2)

    Di neighbour say e warn am to dey careful and dat same night di man also call im mama and im younger sister to complain about di threat give dem.  — (bbc__36429, __no translation__)

    Ah glad for fe support and encouragement, na yi di give me de motivation for do plenty films, a ah promise for work hard with ma colleague dem for put our film industry for international community, na de message dis weh de producer di give e fans dem and e di drop de movie, 'A good time to divorce'.  — (bbc__44535, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• send 0.59 1680, keep 0.55 813, get 0.53 21536, receive 0.53 505, forgive 0.51 417, accept 0.51 312, provide 0.51 471, cut 0.51 495, offer 0.51 120

Antonyms

• send 0.59 1680, keep 0.55 813, get 0.53 21536, receive 0.53 505, forgive 0.51 417, accept 0.51 312, provide 0.51 471, cut 0.51 495, offer 0.51 120

Translations

• English: no definition