im

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.

Definition

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

Possessive pronoun

• Im cup don full.  — Egbokhare_2020_He has met his waterloo.

Pronoun

• Im don come.  — NSC_Ajede_2020, He/she has come
• God Word na im we need.  — (jw__13092, __God's word, it is what we need__)

Translations

• English: he/she