grammar

Naija

Alternative forms

• slangs 0.48 6, professors 0.48 5, viper 0.48 5, em 0.47 62, proverb 0.46 21, oxford 0.46 43, letters 0.46 51, electronics 0.46 10, visitor 0.46 50

Etymology

Borrowed 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

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

grammar: tedious, erudiate arguments or statement in standard english, it also means an incomprehensible English. -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   We dey talk, you dey speak big big grammar.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:16)

   Blow grammar.  — (WAZK_13_On-Pidgin_DG__53, Speak jargons.)

   I no fail grammar, I score forty.  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__297, I didn't fail grammar;I scored forty.)

3. amod (frequency:6)

   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.)

   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.)

4. case-conj (frequency:5)

   •Conformity with Pidgin rules of grammar and punctuation  — (bbc__103085, __no translation__)

   •Follow di Pidgin rules of grammar and comma, full stop;  — (bbc__103099, __no translation__)

5. det (frequency:3)

   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.)

   But di way Google arrange di grammar ehn, na extra confusion be dis.  — (bbc__22411, __no translation__)

6. acl:relcl-det (frequency:2)

   E be like sey she no dey hear di grammar wey we dey yarn at all.  — (ENU_30_Animals-Rights-In-Usa_T__45, It seems like she is not hearing the grammar we are speaking at all.)

   Anoder grammar wey near dese two big grammar dem, cancel and suspend, na postpone.  — (deuber__6010, __no translation__)

7. advmod-amod-det (frequency:2)

   I con speak all di whole grammar, grammar, speak all di English upside down,  — (NST_cleaned__42444, __no translation__)

   Snapchat talk say dia terms and conditions as well as dia privacy policy dey easy to understand as dem don comot all di legal big grammar from inside.  — (bbc__90354, __no translation__)

8. acl:relcl-advmod-amod-det (frequency:2)

   I use all di whole grammar wey dey dis life o.  — (KAD_22_Chatting-At-The-Restaurant_DG__34, I used the best English I could.)

   Big grammer dey block progress Cari all di big grammar wey you get for bodi, keep am for pocket.  — (bbc__20059, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• slangs 0.48 6, professors 0.48 5, viper 0.48 5, em 0.47 62, proverb 0.46 21, oxford 0.46 43, letters 0.46 51, electronics 0.46 10, visitor 0.46 50

Antonyms

• slangs 0.48 6, professors 0.48 5, viper 0.48 5, em 0.47 62, proverb 0.46 21, oxford 0.46 43, letters 0.46 51, electronics 0.46 10, visitor 0.46 50

Translations

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