grammar

Naija

Alternative forms

• girama

Etymology

From English grammar.

Pronunciation

• grámà

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 6
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1072
• Frequency in raw corpus: 38
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3750

Noun

• Na wen person dey speak good and standard English.

1. I no fail grammar, I score forty.  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__297, I didn't fail grammar;I scored forty.)\
2. Na dere de dey even learn how to speak di grammar.  — (ENU_06_After-School-Lessons_DG__3, It was there they even learnt how to speak proper English.)

• Na di type of talk wey dey complex for person to understand.

1. We dey talk, you dey speak big big grammar.  — Egbokhare_2021, we are talking, you are making the discussion complex.
2. You con dey use big, big grammar for me now.  — (JOS_34_Constitutional-Law_DG__129, You are now using very big word for me now.)
3. If I come dey blow big, big grammar you no understand, I no communicate.  — (WAZK_06_Prince-Daniel_M__18, If I start speaking ambiguous words and you don't understand, I didn't communicate.)

• Wen person dey talk jargons

1. Blow grammar.  — (WAZK_13_On-Pidgin_DG__53, Speak jargons.)
2. Oga. dat one na grammar o.  — (bbc__20059, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• jargon

Translations

• English: tedious, erudiate arguments or statement in standard english, it also means an incomprehensible English.