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Revision as of 17:56, 20 August 2020

Naija

Alternative forms

  • kain 0.80 1748

Etymology

Borrowed from English kind

Pronunciation

  • kaɪnd

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 167
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 91
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 2224
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 177

The word is used more orally than in written texts.


Adjective

kind: a form of someting

  1. - (frequency:1974)
    Di kind dress.  — (JOS_07_Trousers-And-Short-Skirts_DG__162, The kind of dress.)
    No be sey to dey do all dese kind small, small… ,  — (KAD_23_Christians-In-Kaduna_DG__130, It is not to all these sort of little little...)


Synonyms

  • type 0.47 281, form

Translations

  • English: type, race, form

Noun

kind: person wey dey cool


  1. Na kind man im be.  —  He is a kind man
    You no see di kind lawyer wey win di case.  —  You didn't see the kind lawyer that won the case

Derived

  • kindness

Synonyms

  • cool, calm

Antonyms

Translations

  • English: mild, gentle, affectionate