happen
Naija
Alternative forms
- happun
Etymology
From: English happen
Pronunciation
- ˈhæpən
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 94
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 144
- Frequency in raw corpus: 4713
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 84
Verb
As someting take de dey :
- Wetin happen — (bbc__99448, __no translation__)
- Wetin happen, — (ONI_14_Girlfriends_DG__35, What happened ?)
- obl:arg (frequency:226)
- happen to am. — (human_rights__142, __no translation__)
- Happen to people. — (BEN_19a_Man-Must-Wack_DG__7, It happened to people.)
- aux (frequency:214)
- Wetin go happen, — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__213, What will happen ?)
- Wetin dey happen, — (JOS_35_We-Dey-Waka_M__57, What is happening ?)
- mark (frequency:110)
- E no take long to happen. — (jw__9221, __no translation__)
- See one thing wey happen. — (jw__28953, __no translation__)
- nsubj (frequency:104)
- nothing happen. — (bbc__26994, __no translation__)
- Something happen. — (jw__44346, __no translation__)
- aux-mark (frequency:104)
- Wetin you tink sey dey happen, — (ABJ_NOU_01_Death-Of-A-Brother_DG__42, What do you think is happening ?)
- Other things wey dey happen na: — (bbc__79574, __no translation__)
- advcl (frequency:57)
- Wetin happen as e dey go for road? — (jw__30737, __no translation__)
- Wetin happen when Jesus dey the temple? — (jw__42298, __no translation__)
- obl:mod (frequency:35)
- Because Jesus talk wetin happen that time. — (jw__27576, __no translation__)
- As e be, di election suppose happen tomorrow. — (bbc__17052, __no translation__)
- advmod (frequency:31)
- Na im happen so. — (BEN_19a_Man-Must-Wack_DG__6, It happened so.)
- Aha X, what happen here na? — (PRT_06_Port-Harcourt_DG__69, Aha, X, what happened here ?)
- aux-dep (frequency:18)
- But wetin don dey happen because of this one? — (jw__42673, __no translation__)
- EFCC wan fight corruption 'like wetin never happen before' — (bbc__45944, __no translation__)
- dep-mark (frequency:18)
- Historic event wey happen dia? — (bbc__56027, __no translation__)
- And the things wey happen because of wetin e do, bad well well. — (jw__48124, __no translation__)
- dep (frequency:17)
- No be just wetin happen before. — (jw__26948, __no translation__)
- Wetin happen for ontop the mountain? — (jw__42235, __no translation__)
- obj (frequency:12)
- And to arrange dem as e take happen one by one. — (jw__32730, __no translation__)
- wetin happen wetin happen?in fact e be like say I no read for dat test — (deuber__1495, __no translation__)
- ccomp (frequency:7)
- Wetin we learn from wetin happen to apostle Paul for Philippi? — (jw__43206, __no translation__)
- Wetin happen wey im still dey for street dey, dey beg for money? — (NST_cleaned__12181, __no translation__)
- cc-nsubj (frequency:5)
- You know but nothing happen. — (JOS_30_Northern-Skirmishes_DG__167, You know but, nothing happened.)
- But something happen wey for make dem no be friend again. — (jw__5529, __no translation__)
- mark-obj (frequency:5)
- We sidon put all di information of every attack wey happen one by one. — (bbc__98355, __no translation__)
- As e be sey na like thirty small, small pikin dem, school children, na im die for inside one motor accident wey happen for di north side of Tanzania. — (WAZL_12_Chibok-Girls_M__21, It happened that about thirty small children, school children, they were the ones who died in one motor accident that happened at the north side of Tanzania.)
- aux-obj (frequency:4)
- Kai e be like sey na wetin go happen be dat o. — (KAD_29_Boys-Talk_DG__34, Ah, it seems that is what will happen.)
- According to avoid di gbege, wey dem suspect e for happen follo di waka-waka. — (ja102__313, __no translation__)
- det (frequency:2)
- Even wit de dialogue weh e di go on, kontri pipo for de two regions celebrate dia independence laik say notin di happen. — (bbc__47823, __no translation__)
- Anglophone crisis no longer bi for wuna level, make President Biya start dis shiddon tok weh deh di singam and notin di happen for ground, de pipo tell de commission. — (bbc__392, __no translation__)
- dep-obj (frequency:2)
- Twitter/Ana3rabeya We don dey wait for dis to happen since. — (bbc__96332, __no translation__)
- E say UN di still ask foment permission for kam shine eye for weti di happen de two regions. — (bbc__14026, __no translation__)
Synonyms
- happun 0.76 2123, cause 0.58 1775, do 0.55 21672, repeat 0.48 117, affect 0.47 1028, worse 0.47 180, tension 0.46 144, scatter 0.46 441, herdsmen 0.45 655
Antonyms
- happun 0.76 2123, cause 0.58 1775, do 0.55 21672, repeat 0.48 117, affect 0.47 1028, worse 0.47 180, tension 0.46 144, scatter 0.46 441, herdsmen 0.45 655
Translations
- English: happen