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 or de be.
- Wetin happen — (bbc__99448, What happened?)
- 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 ?)
- E no take long to happen. — (jw__9221, __no translation__)
- Wetin you tink sey dey happen, — (ABJ_NOU_01_Death-Of-A-Brother_DG__42, What do you think is happening?)
- Wetin happen as e dey go for road? — (jw__30737, What happened while he was on the road.)
- As e be, di election suppose happen tomorrow. — (bbc__17052, The way things are going, the election is supposed to take place tomorrow.)
- And the things wey happen because of wetin e do, bad well well. — (jw__48124, The consequences of the action were dire.)
- Wetin happen wey im still dey for street dey, dey beg for money? — (NST_cleaned__12181, __no translation__)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: happen