house

Naija

Alternative forms

• haus

Etymology

From: English house

Pronunciation

• háʊ̀s

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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

Definition

• Place wey person dey stay.

• Group wey dem dey share people put for inter house sport.

Noun

house:

• I con run go di house.  — (ABJ_NOU_01_Death-Of-A-Brother_DG__29, Then I ran to the house.)
• Na our house win di competition  — ( It's our house that won the competition)
• Ochade house dey march  — ( Ochade house is marching_)

Related forms

• housboy, housgirl, housewife

Synonyms

• bunk

Translations

• English: house, home