Difference between revisions of "jeje"

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===Pronunciation===
 
===Pronunciation===
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===Frequency===
 
===Frequency===

Revision as of 12:05, 4 June 2021


Naija

Etymology

From: Yoruba jeje (gently)

Pronunciation

  • dʒɛ́dʒɛ́

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3217
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 34
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3985


Adjective

Sey garagara no dey for someting.

  • Life just dey jeje, nothing dey.  — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__91, Just taking life easy.)
  • Because life for dis place na jeje.  — (NST_cleaned__37306, Life over here is calm.)
  • So I con dey eat, I dey eat jeje.  — (NST_cleaned__9918, I started eating quietly.)
  • Dis morning, I dey my own jeje, I no want talk to her.  — (JOS_04_Mummy-Wahala_DG__33, This morning I was on my own quietly, I didn't talk to her.)

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Translations

  • English: gentle, quietly