hold

Naija

Etymology

From: English hold

Pronunciation

• hoʊld

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 23
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 413
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1180
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 313

Verb

• Hold Jehovah Tight  — (jw__13854, .)
• Hold your voters card  — (bbc__56038, Have your voters card with you.)
• Di one common tin wey hold dis four  — (bbc__36749, )
• Some other belt still get one strong thing to hold sword and knife.  — (jw__30940, )
• Na im hold office key now,  — (NST_cleaned__20187, )
• Ah omo, you go collect am first, hold am first.  — (PRT_06_Port-Harcourt_DG__141, Ah guy, you will collect it and hold it first.)
• Meh una give me my own money mah hold my own money.  — (NST_cleaned__30413, __no translation__)
• Na im hold dis country strong.  — (LAG_18_Lagos-Districts_M__13, That is what holds this country strong.)
• De want hold am make e no fall.  — (JOS_10_Mothers-Against-Mini-Skirts_DG__166, They want to hold them so they won't fall off.)
• Meh una give me my own money mah hold my own money.  — (LAG_33_Buhari-Recession_M__32, You should give me my own money so that I will hold my own money.)

Ehm e go see you, e go run, e go see you, e go laugh, e go see you, e go con hold you.  — (WAZP_06_Tommys-Life-Story_M__73, Ehm, he will see you, he will run; he will see you, he will laugh; he will see you, he will now hold you.)

• Okonkwo harsh well well, na strong hand e take hold im wife and pikin them.  — (katakata__531, __no translation__)

Translations

• English: hold