Difference between revisions of "im"

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===Etymology===
 
===Etymology===
Borrowed from English im
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From English "him"
  
 
===Pronunciation===
 
===Pronunciation===

Revision as of 15:17, 16 September 2020

Naija

Alternative forms

  • him 0.71 582,ein 0.56 1578, e 0.56 46271

Etymology

From English "him"

Pronunciation

  • ìm

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 731
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 31
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 30218
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 14

The word is used more in written texts than orally.


Usage

Definition

  • Dem dey use am for person.
  • Dem dey use am dey talk about wetin be person own.

Possessive pronoun

  1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
    Im cup don full.  — 

Pronoun

  1. Im don come.  — no translation
    God Word na im we need.  — (jw__13092, __no translation__)

Derived forms

Synonyms

  • ein 0.56 1578, e 0.56 46271,

Antonyms

  • her 0.55 5282

Translations

  • English: his