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Revision as of 14:05, 14 September 2020

Naija

Alternative forms

give

Etymology

Borrowed from English give

Pronunciation

  • gɪv

Play Play

Frequency

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

Definition

Usage

Verb

  1. give: Sey person take someting carry am to anoder person/someting
    Na im fit save us and give us life.  — (jw__25690, __He is the one who can save us and give us life__)
    Lai Mohammed b'cos of some heavy lie wey both of dem lie give wi public.  — (ja102__3933, __Lai Mohammed because of some heave lies that the both of them served the public __).

Derived forms

Synonyms

  • send 0.59 1680, provide 0.51 471, offer 0.51 120

Antonyms

keep 0.55 813, get 0.53 21536, receive 0.53 505, accept 0.51 312, cut 0.51 495,

Translations

  • English: give