grow

Naija

Alternative forms

• flow 0.67 125, struggle 0.63 300, develop 0.62 207, manage 0.60 451, produce 0.60 443, rise 0.59 183, mature 0.59 59, safe 0.58 349, build 0.57 946

Etymology

Borrowed from English grow

Pronunciation

• grô

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 41
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 281
• Frequency in raw corpus: 693
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 492

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Verb

grow: develop -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   make we relax, dis country go grow small small.  — no translation

2. aux-nsubj (frequency:35)

   Unoka don grow.  — (katakata__685, __no translation__)

   Jesus don dey grow.  — (jw__20105, __no translation__)

3. - (frequency:33)

   How di money take grow?  — (WAZP_04_Ponzi-Scheme_MG__52, How did the money multiply?)

   Na Lystra Timothy grow.  — (jw__25323, __no translation__)

4. mark (frequency:23)

   Cotton di depend na for rain for grow.  — (bbc__914, __no translation__)

   As pikin take need food to grow, na so our faith be.  — (jw__47553, __no translation__)

5. mark-obj (frequency:21)

   How to grow dada  — (bbc__56626, __no translation__)

   Time neva reach to grow igbo  — (bbc__94067, __no translation__)

6. aux (frequency:14)

   We go try dey make am dey grow.  — (jw__39802, __no translation__)

   Try your best, dey try dey grow.  — (jw__38317, __no translation__)

7. obj (frequency:14)

   Sports fit help grow di economy  — (bbc__92131, __no translation__)

   So tell me how we wan take grow today.  — (JOS_14_Chibozor-View-About-Nigeria_MG__81, So tell me how we want to progress today.)

8. aux-mark (frequency:10)

   B usiness wey dey grow  — (bbc__18188, __no translation__)

   to continue to dey grow.  — (jw__48839, __no translation__)

9. nsubj (frequency:8)

   And I wan con follow talk of where I grow.  — (NST_cleaned__7391, __no translation__)

   But e want go preach even more for the area where e grow.  — (jw__555, __no translation__)

10. obl:arg (frequency:7)

    But na so de take grow right from small.  — (ABJ_GWA_11_Hungry-No-Go-Kill-Us_DG__95, But that is how they grew from childhood.)

    They allow bad thing grow inside their heart.  — (jw__45679, __no translation__)

11. cc-obj (frequency:4)

    Dis one mean say we go fit respond to stress in healthy way and we go fit bounce back afta challenges and grow stronger.  — (bbc__2148, __no translation__)

    PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi say e dey important for French football make dem keep and grow players wey get good skills for inside France.  — (bbc__80328, __no translation__)

12. advmod (frequency:4)

    Im eyebrow full with hair like say na bush grow for there.  — (katakata__130, __no translation__)

    According by him o, dis one go helep our country grow well well.Jumat service o don show face for central mosque Abuja as part of all dose things to take remember say Nigeria don chook leg inside civilian government uh for di first year.  — (deuber__30, __no translation__)

13. obl:mod (frequency:4)

    Na so I take grow like dis.  — (ABJ_INF_05_On-Pidgin_M__67, That's how I grew up to be who I am.)

    As I take grow like dis ehn, naim I come realise sey ehn dis Pidgin wey we dey speak so, e get level,  — (ABJ_INF_05_On-Pidgin_M__68, When I grew up to be who I am, I realised that ehn this Pidgin has levels.)

14. aux-obj (frequency:4)

    Make the way we dey teach, dey grow ev’ry day,  — (jw__22788, __no translation__)

    Na tree wey want noise o, na im dey grow flowers o.  — (deuber__1790, __no translation__)

15. advmod-cc (frequency:4)

    2. Di gumbody country dem go try as dem power reach to make sure say every pikin live im life and grow wellwell.  — (gumbody__133, __no translation__)

    According to World Health Organisation , e dey very good to give only breast milk to pickin dem for di first six months of dia life so dat dem go get good health and grow well-well.  — (bbc__11649, __no translation__)

16. conj-obj (frequency:3)

    Di Nigeria Medical Association also tok say time neva reach for Nigeria to begin grow or legalize igbo.  — (bbc__31982, __no translation__)

    Di reason wey make I dey tok dis one na because Church follow dey help marriage grow and plenty pipo dey marry for Church.  — (bbc__1768, __no translation__)

17. dep (frequency:2)

    Big business no dey allow small business grow at all.  — (bbc__103104, __no translation__)

    We dey sure sey Jehovah wey ‘dey see wetin dey person mind,’ go make the truth grow for inside this kind people mind.​— 1 Sam.  — (jw__25532, __no translation__)

18. conj (frequency:2)

    To give pikin only breast milk di first six months afta dem born am dey very important to helep am grow and develop wella.  — (bbc__94274, __no translation__)

    Many Nigerians like dis method of buying because dem no need enta market to buy wetin dem want but some pipo feel say dis tax go destroy e-commerce sector for Nigeria wey still dey try grow and discourage pipo from cashless transactions.  — (bbc__65334, __no translation__)

19. advcl (frequency:2)

    Jesus begin grow dey get sense.  — (IBA_40_Christ-Passion-Prologue_MG__8, Jesus started growing and he was wise.)

    Unicef talk for di report wey dem launch on Tuesday for Abuja say dis policy and some other ones no dey help children grow as dem suppose grow.  — (bbc__97176, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• flow 0.67 125, struggle 0.63 300, develop 0.62 207, manage 0.60 451, produce 0.60 443, rise 0.59 183, mature 0.59 59, safe 0.58 349, build 0.57 946

Antonyms

• flow 0.67 125, struggle 0.63 300, develop 0.62 207, manage 0.60 451, produce 0.60 443, rise 0.59 183, mature 0.59 59, safe 0.58 349, build 0.57 946

Translations

• English: develop