Difference between revisions of "house"

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Revision as of 18:13, 20 August 2020

Naija

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English house

Pronunciation

  • haʊs

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 194
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 82
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 3302
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 117

The word is used more orally than in written texts.


Noun

house: place wey person dey stay, group wey dem dey share people dey put when school wan do inter house sports


  1. Place wey person dey stay
    I con run go di house.  — (ABJ_NOU_01_Death-Of-A-Brother_DG__29, Then I ran to the house.)
    Go house,  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__385, Go to the house !)
  2. group wey dem dey share people dey put when school wan do inter house sports
    Na our house win di competition  — ( It's our house that won the competition)
    Ochade house dey march  — ( Ochade house is marching_)

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Translations

  • house, home