life
Naija
Alternative forms
- lives 0.59 145, condition 0.57 479, future 0.56 366, mind 0.53 3840, character 0.52 545, paradise 0.52 223, idea 0.50 237, hood 0.50 7, faith 0.50 848
Etymology
Borrowed from English life
Pronunciation
- laɪf
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 148
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 99
- Frequency in raw corpus: 3382
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 113
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
life: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:804)
- Na life, — (NST_cleaned__13303, __no translation__)
- No be life. — (NST_cleaned__21530, __no translation__)
- case (frequency:454)
- Dew good for life. — (jw__6850, __no translation__)
- E no good for life. — (ONI_16_Thief_DG__22, It's not good in life.)
- amod (frequency:177)
- Real life. — (BEN_19a_Man-Must-Wack_DG__8, In real life.)
- low life people. — (NST_cleaned__32897, __no translation__)
- det (frequency:94)
- Dis life? — (IBA_08_Music-And-Art-Students_DG__120, This life ?)
- dis life... — (NST_cleaned__38467, __no translation__)
- nmod (frequency:77)
- Life of slave — (bbc__63867, __no translation__)
- Mtchew life dey fine o. — (NST_cleaned__16410, __no translation__)
- conj (frequency:21)
- E fit mean life or death. — (jw__8088, __no translation__)
- How God dey treat life and blood? — (jw__14027, __no translation__)
- dep (frequency:11)
- Dat is life. — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__199, That's life.)
- People say dia life no safe — (bbc__80918, __no translation__)
- cc (frequency:10)
- The things wey I don tell una na spirit and life. — (jw__3651, __no translation__)
- For music and life, many pipo dey call her di 'Queen of Soul' — (bbc__52011, __no translation__)
- advmod (frequency:6)
- She go go no life. — (NST_cleaned__29025, __no translation__)
- Animal no fit choose wetin dem want, na how dem see life dem dey live am. — (jw__2452, __no translation__)
- dep-det (frequency:6)
- Na the life we don choose. — (jw__26170, __no translation__)
- Haha you know when I don dey dis life from? — (IBA_08_Music-And-Art-Students_DG__119, Aha, do you know long I have been living in this life ?)
- cc-det (frequency:5)
- ‘Na me be the road, the truth, and the life. — (jw__49208, __no translation__)
- Remember wetin Jesus Christ tell Thomas, e sey: ‘Na me be the road, the truth, and the life. — (jw__3362, __no translation__)
- cc-nmod (frequency:4)
- God no want make we comot belle, to take blood, and animal life — (jw__13340, __no translation__)
- Wetin we go do to make sure sey we no put our life and other people life for danger? — (jw__43061, __no translation__)
Derived forms
- Zeinab bin run away as teenager because she wan marry so she go get beta life. — (bbc__102126, __no translation__)
- Dis pipo dey share di land so dat land go dey for evritin wey we need to use am for living beta life. — (bbc__37593, __no translation__)* city life
- Barrack life no be like village life, or all dis correct, correct city life. — (NST_cleaned__22788, __no translation__)
- Di spread of city life inside villages for France dey cause plenti katakata. — (bbc__33443, __no translation__)* dia life
- Na at least five people don lose dia life for di widespread protests wey dey go on for Democratic Republic of Congo. — (bbc__85400, __no translation__)
- Pipo wey dey live for Akoka community for Lagos State don accuse one filling station - Total say dem dey put dia life for danger. — (bbc__81701, __no translation__)* life ban
- Recently Siasia bin file appeal against di life ban wey world football joinbodi Fifa nack ontop im head for match-fixing. — (bbc__84765, __no translation__)
- Last year Povetkin bin chop life ban from di sport for March 2017 afta im fail im second drug test but dem reduce di ban to just one year. — (bbc__63320, __no translation__)* life beta
- Mey una live una wh~, life beta. — (NST_cleaned__12118, __no translation__)
- E go allow pipo use am for different kain way wey go make dia life beta and stop all di tins wey goment dey do to so dem no go progress. — (bbc__2448, __no translation__)* life tori
- Note: Dis na real life tori but di name of di hair stylist na di editor change am to Abu Hashibu to protect di real name of dis man. — (bbc__75536, __no translation__)
- De out, e gada all di life tori of wi oga presido and di struggle-dem wey ein don face till e con enter power as wi oga presido, on May 29, 2016. — (ja102__1067, __no translation__)* man life
- Man life no just easy. — (JOS_24_Football_M__29, Man's life is not just easy.)
- Daniel talk sey, dem dey live the kind life wey people dey call big man life. — (jw__6175, __no translation__)* pipo life
- Oya, come follow enta di Mercy Ships wey dey save pipo life. — (bbc__79799, __no translation__)
- Wiseman don de do study on top how luck dey affect pipo life. — (bbc__100912, __no translation__)* sex life
- Fulfilling sex life — (bbc__53276, __no translation__)
- Dem dey get satisfaction and dey get fulfilling sex life. — (bbc__28771, __no translation__)
Synonymes
- lives 0.59 145, condition 0.57 479, future 0.56 366, mind 0.53 3840, character 0.52 545, paradise 0.52 223, idea 0.50 237, hood 0.50 7, faith 0.50 848
Antonymes
- lives 0.59 145, condition 0.57 479, future 0.56 366, mind 0.53 3840, character 0.52 545, paradise 0.52 223, idea 0.50 237, hood 0.50 7, faith 0.50 848
Translations
- English: no definition