happen

Naija

Alternative forms

• 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

Etymology

Borrowed from English happen

Pronunciation

• ˈhæpən

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 94
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 144
• Frequency in raw corpus: 4713
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 84

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Verb

happen: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:398)

   Wetin happen  — (bbc__99448, __no translation__)

   Wetin happen,  — (ONI_14_Girlfriends_DG__35, What happened ?)

2. 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.)

3. 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 ?)

4. mark (frequency:110)

   E no take long to happen.  — (jw__9221, __no translation__)

   See one thing wey happen.  — (jw__28953, __no translation__)

5. nsubj (frequency:104)

   nothing happen.  — (bbc__26994, __no translation__)

   Something happen.  — (jw__44346, __no translation__)

6. 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__)

7. 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__)

8. 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__)

9. 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 ?)

10. 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__)

11. 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__)

12. dep (frequency:17)

    No be just wetin happen before.  — (jw__26948, __no translation__)

    Wetin happen for ontop the mountain?  — (jw__42235, __no translation__)

13. 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__)

14. 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__)

15. 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__)

16. 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.)

17. 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__)

18. 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__)

19. 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__)

Derived forms

• sey happen

1. E be like sey someting dey happen to us anytime wey we go market.  — (IBA_04_Alaska-Pepe_MG__63, It's like something is happening to us whenever we go to the market.)

   To travel is very easy, but now, tins just dey like sey nothing dey happen.  — (LAG_07_Johns-Biography_MG__9, Traveling is very easy, but nowadays, it's like nothing is happening.)

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: no definition