Difference between revisions of "kpafuka"

 
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===Etymology===
 
===Etymology===
 
===Pronunciation===
 
===Pronunciation===
* kpáí
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* kpàfúká
<sm2>Pcm-ng-kpai.f.ogg</sm2>  
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<sm2>Pcm-ng-kpafuka.f.ogg</sm2>  
<sm2>Pcm-ng-kpai.m.ogg</sm2>  
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<sm2>Pcm-ng-kpafuka.m.ogg</sm2>
 
 
===Frequency===
 
* Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
 
* Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1880
 
* Frequency in raw corpus: 65
 
* Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2697
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
===Verb===
 
===Verb===
Make person stop to dey live.
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* Make person die.
 
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:* {{ux|dv| Im mama don '''kpafuka''' yesterday o.|(His/Her mother died yesterday.)}}
#: {{ux|dv|Im mama don '''kpafuka''' yesterday o.|no translation}}
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:* {{ux|dv| Everybody for dat accident don '''kpafuka'''. |(Everybody involved in the accident died.)}}
 
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* Make someting spoil.
#: {{ux|dv|All di headache, everyting, everyting, every sickness just stop '''kpai'''! |(ABJ_GWA_14_Mary-Lifestory_MG__18, All the headache, everything, everything, all the sickness just stopped, okay?)}}
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:* {{ux|dv| Di motor  '''kpafuka''' for di accident.|(The car was dissembled in the accident.)}}
#: {{ux|dv|Den di way de take dey carry, use spanner dey knack, you just sit dere dey hear '''kpai'''. |(WAZA_07_Self-Medication_T__53, Then, the way they used to carry use spanner to hit, you will just sit there, hearing ' kpai '.)}}
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:* {{ux|dv| My phone '''kpafuka''' [[taytay]]. |(My phone spoilt a long time ago.)}}
# aux-nsubj (frequency:4)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Everybody dey talk say di guy don '''kpai'''. |(IBA_37_Buhari-Returns_DG__123, Everybody was saying that they guy was dead.\)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|When de say person bin '''kpai''', e con come back. |(WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__127, When they say a person has died, and then, comes back.)}}
 
# mark (frequency:3)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Sey na one of deir aunty wey '''kpai''', sey when dat aunty bin '''kpai''', she no born pikin. |(WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__123, That is one of their auntie who died; that when that auntie died, she didn't give birth to any child.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|Di BBC arrange di award to troway salute give Komla Dumor, one presenter for BBC World News, wey just '''kpai''' for 2014 wen im be 41-years-old. |(bbc__30787, __no translation__)}}
 
# obj (frequency:2)
 
#: {{ux|dv|De go collect di money go '''kpai''' di person. |(PRT_06_Port-Harcourt_DG__125, They will collect the money and kill the person.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|Se una no forget say oga Mugabe, wey be 95 years '''kpai''' last week wen him bin dey receive medical treatment inside one Singapore hospital. |(ja102__4282, __no translation__)}}
 
# mark-obj (frequency:2)
 
#: {{ux|dv|No be to '''kpai''' person, |(NST_cleaned__16348, __no translation__)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|But announcement say im no go run again go calm di kontri wey dey boil tey tey and block di kontri to return back to civil war wey '''kpai''' millions. |(bbc__21774, __no translation__)}}
 
# mark-obl:mod (frequency:2)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Na for di same tropical region inside Guinea, na eim record di highest new cases for 2013, wey '''kpai''' like 11,300 pipo-dem. |(ja102__1544, __no translation__)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|One former oga on top ofofo and talk-talk matter o, Chief Uche Chukwumerije, say dem no go dance dat day o and dem no go do any oder kind of celebration  but make everybody wey be Igbo man  tabi Igbo woman wherever dem dey o to keep quiet tabi silent for three minutes by twelve o'clock dat day to show say dem dey mourn abi dey squeeze face on top dem broders and sisters dem wey '''kpai''' during di Civil War. |(deuber__1792, __no translation__)}}
 
 
 
====Derived forms====
 
 
 
 
 
 
====Synonyms====
 
====Synonyms====
*  
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* [[kpai]]
 
 
====Antonyms====
 
*
 
  
 
====Translations====
 
====Translations====
* English: die, kill
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* English: ''die, scatter''

Latest revision as of 17:08, 3 June 2023

Naija

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • kpàfúká

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Verb

  • Make person die.
  • Im mama don kpafuka yesterday o.  — (His/Her mother died yesterday.)
  • Everybody for dat accident don kpafuka.  — (Everybody involved in the accident died.)
  • Make someting spoil.
  • Di motor kpafuka for di accident.  — (The car was dissembled in the accident.)
  • My phone kpafuka taytay.  — (My phone spoilt a long time ago.)

Synonyms

Translations

  • English: die, scatter