house
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English house
Pronunciation
- haʊs
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.
Usage
Definition
place wey person dey stay, group wey dem dey share people dey put when school wan do inter house sports
Noun
house:
- 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 !)
- 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_)
Derived forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
- house, home