how

Naija

Etymology

From: English how

Pronunciation

• haʊ/ aʊ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 212
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 76
• Frequency in raw corpus: 8095
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 50

Adverb

Dem dey use am dey ask as person or someting be or take happen.

• You know how e be,  — (PRT_06_Port-Harcourt_DG__79, You know how it is.)
• I know how to dance,  — (ENU_03_School-Fees-And-French-Exams_DG__82, I know how to dance.)
• How,  — (IBA_42_Barrabas_DG__62, How did it happen?)

Translations

• English: How