gree

Naija

Alternative forms

• gri

Etymology

From English agree

Pronunciation

• grî

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 30
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 357
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1619
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 236

Transitive Verb

• Make person accept someting.

You gree three hundred?  — (IBA_05_Cobbler_DG__39, Do you agree to collect three hundred ?)

Intransitive Verb

1. Inside hundred percent, na only one percent dey gree, di rest no gree,  — (KAD_06_Cooking_DG__223, In hundred percent, it's only one percent that agrees; the rest don't agree.)
2. Eh Madrid no want gree,  — (WAZL_01_Sports-Programme_DG__56, Eh, Madrid doesn't want to agree.)
3. Oga now, I no go, I no gree.  — (ENU_25_Boss-And-Apprentice_DG__279, Boss, no I will not. I don't agree.)

Serial Verb

1. Di one wey make pipo open mouth no gree close am na di one wey im clip wey enta off di bar.  — (bbc__36769, __no translation__)
2. But no be everybody John gree baptize.  — (jw__34766, __no translation__)
3. No ah me, I wan make de sack am, but di board no gree sack am.  — (PRT_03_Football_DG__73, No, I want them to sack him but the board refused to sack him.)

Synonyms

• allow, agree, accept

Translations

• English: agree.