helep

Naija

Alternative forms

• help

Etymology

From: English help

Pronunciation

• ɛ́lɛ̂p

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 4
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1326
• Frequency in raw corpus: 470
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 677

Usage

• Na people we no go oyibo school well well dey talk am pass.

Verb

Make person give anoder person hand so that someting go be.

• Abeg, helep me buy food for der.  — (Egbokhare_2021, Please kindly buy me some food there.)
• After all, na helep I wan helep you. Look, I don tire.  — (deuber__6618, I was only trying to help. That's all. I am now frustrated.)
• Okay at dis year twenty eighteen, omo I dey pray make God help me, helep me.  — (ENU_34_Malaysia-Guy_MG__2, This 2018, I pray that God lifts me out of poverty.)
• Our case now come be like cow wey no get tail o, wey God helep dey drive fly.  — (deuber__6024, Our situation is like one who is completely helpless who has to rely on fate to get by.)

Adjective

• Helep moni for melecine most times na organizations dey donate am.  — (bbc__55673, Relief funds for purchasing medicine often come from donations of relief organisations.)

Related forms

• help

Synonyms

• assistance, relief

Translations

• English: relief

Adjective

1. Helep moni for melecine most times na organizations dey donate am.  — (bbc__55673, __no translation__)

Related forms

• help

Synonyms

• assist

Translations

• English: help