lose

Naija

Alternative forms

• loose 0.83 110, win 0.72 3213, kolobi 0.70 233, lost 0.70 159, score 0.67 1191, concede 0.66 10, leave 0.63 1444, beat 0.62 932, qualify 0.61 442

Etymology

Borrowed from English lose

Pronunciation

• lûz

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 5
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1160
• Frequency in raw corpus: 686
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 496

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Verb

lose: lossen,slack, slacken -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   1. Di goat lose imsef, con run enter road. 2. E don lose.  — no translation

2. obj (frequency:28)

   Lose husband, lose pikin.  — (NST_cleaned__6168, __no translation__)

   Funny ways some people take lose dia job  — (bbc__53301, __no translation__)

3. mark-obj (frequency:23)

   E no easy to lose your leg or hand.  — (bbc__44936, __no translation__)

   No need for anybody to lose dia life.  — (bbc__22115, __no translation__)

4. nsubj-obj (frequency:23)

   E lose di head.  — (BEN_32_I-Don-Tire-For-All-Dese-Boys_DG__131, He lost his head.)

   She lose evritin wen wata cari her house go for Gundu.  — (bbc__60861, __no translation__)

5. mark-nsubj (frequency:12)

   M - Team dey get 3 points if dem win, 1 point if na draw and 0 if dem lose.  — (bbc__64388, __no translation__)

   Nigeria don comot for Women's World Cup afta dem lose quarter final How di FIFA ranking dey work?  — (bbc__73527, __no translation__)

6. aux-obj (frequency:9)

   Pipo wey dem keep for di centre dey lose all energy, Im add.  — (bbc__58100, __no translation__)

   Because as we dey take dey forget di language, na so we dey take dey forget our culture, and na so we dey take dey lose our value.  — (NST_cleaned__11962, __no translation__)

7. - (frequency:8)

   Lose  — (bbc__64286, __no translation__)

   lose  — (bbc__102509, __no translation__)

8. nsubj (frequency:8)

   Oga Kamara don congratulate im rival but im neva gree accept say im lose.  — (bbc__76692, __no translation__)

   Four things na: Who let am come die for us, why e let am come, wetin e lose, and wetin the death do for our body.  — (jw__12635, __no translation__)

9. mark (frequency:7)

   BBC Sport Why Super Falcons need Cameroon to lose  — (bbc__18595, __no translation__)

   Odinga, the candidate wey lose, say NASA go expose President Kenyatta;  — (bbc__76262, __no translation__)

10. cc-obj (frequency:6)

    ‘Wetin man go get if e gain the whole world and lose im life?  — (jw__49391, __no translation__)

    Person talk am sey King Saul for Bible, e tall, e lanky, e slim, e fine, but e lose di crown,  — (BEN_32_I-Don-Tire-For-All-Dese-Boys_DG__125, Someone said it that King Saul in the Bible, he was tall, he was lanky, he was slim, he was handsome. But he lost the crown. #)

11. aux-nsubj (frequency:6)

    Now, I see wetin I don lose, im papa tok.  — (bbc__3217, __no translation__)

    l dey greet you sorry for wetin you don lose.  — (bbc__65503, __no translation__)

12. cc (frequency:4)

    STR/Getty Di Super Eagles team wey win Sudan for semi-finals of CHAN 2018 Make we no dey look whether dem win or lose.  — (bbc__86427, __no translation__)

    Nothing dey for dis match except pride, as Egypt don already qualify for di World Cup and win or lose, Ghana no dey go anywhere.  — (bbc__75538, __no translation__)

13. obl:arg (frequency:4)

    Make we talk about how e take lose for war and come die.  — (jw__35260, __no translation__)

    Dat na wetin one fan tok about Thierry Henry afta im team lose to Club Brugge.  — (bbc__27034, __no translation__)

14. aux (frequency:3)

    Whether na government or na di AFN get di blame, na Nigeria dey lose.  — (bbc__99905, __no translation__)

    How to be di 'Total Man' by Covenant University Graduate wey sue Oxford University for 2:1 degree don lose  — (bbc__78284, __no translation__)

15. advcl-obj (frequency:3)

    Dis one dey make DisCos lose watts of electricity before e go reach wia e suppose go.  — (bbc__103067, __no translation__)

    To collect maternity leave from work place fit make her lose her work because she no get marriage certificate.  — (bbc__94202, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• loose 0.83 110, win 0.72 3213, kolobi 0.70 233, lost 0.70 159, score 0.67 1191, concede 0.66 10, leave 0.63 1444, beat 0.62 932, qualify 0.61 442

Antonyms

• loose 0.83 110, win 0.72 3213, kolobi 0.70 233, lost 0.70 159, score 0.67 1191, concede 0.66 10, leave 0.63 1444, beat 0.62 932, qualify 0.61 442

Translations

• English: lossen,slack, slacken