hear
Naija
Alternative forms
- hia
Etymology
From English hear
Pronunciation
- íà
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 116
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 121
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1994
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 190
Definition
Make person feel sound for ear.
Verb
- Na only you fit hear. — (jw__48772,It is only you that can hear.)
- De no go allow dem to hear am. — (IBA_18_Money-Wahala_M__29, They will not allow them to hear it.)
- Make person listen or obey.
- I don tell am, e no go hear. — (NSC_Tella_2020, I have told him, he won't listen.)
- Make person suffer
- If you no put mouth for dem, you go hear am o. — (NSC_Tella_2020, If you don't support them, you will suffer.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- understand 0.58 1148,listen,
Antonyms
- forget 0.57 672,
Translations
- English: To understand, to perceive sound through the ear