house

Naija

Alternative forms

• shop 0.71 264, room 0.69 356, compound 0.64 114, village 0.61 764, door 0.59 242, gate 0.59 174, motor 0.59 578, office 0.58 1749, family 0.58 2173

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

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 home !)

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_)

Translations

• house, home