kind

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

1. 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

Translations

• English: mild, gentle, affectionate