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===Verb=== | ===Verb=== | ||
====Intransitive==== | ====Intransitive==== | ||
| − | Make person put food for mouth [[chop]]. | + | * Make person put food for mouth [[chop]]. |
:* {{ux|dv|My guy, you go wait o, I wan '''lem'''.|(Egbokhare_2020, My buddy, you have to wait for me because I want to eat.)}} | :* {{ux|dv|My guy, you go wait o, I wan '''lem'''.|(Egbokhare_2020, My buddy, you have to wait for me because I want to eat.)}} | ||
| + | :* {{ux|dv| No be you buy di suya, but na you wan '''lem''' pass. |(NSC_2021, It wasn't you who bought the suya, but you still want to eat the most.)}} | ||
====Synonyms==== | ====Synonyms==== | ||
* [[chop]] | * [[chop]] | ||
Revision as of 12:40, 5 July 2021
Naija
Etymology
From: unknown
Pronunciation
- lém
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3582
- Frequency in raw corpus: 3
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 14214
Verb
Intransitive
- Make person put food for mouth chop.
- My guy, you go wait o, I wan lem. — (Egbokhare_2020, My buddy, you have to wait for me because I want to eat.)
- No be you buy di suya, but na you wan lem pass. — (NSC_2021, It wasn't you who bought the suya, but you still want to eat the most.)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
- English: to eat