lose
Naija
Etymology
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
Verb
- Make someting get lost, or make e no grip well.
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- 1. Di goat lose imsef, con run enter road. 2. E don lose. — no translation
- Lose husband, lose pikin. — (NST_cleaned__6168, __no translation__)
- Funny ways some people take lose dia job — (bbc__53301, __no translation__)
- 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__)
- 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__)
- 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__)
- 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__)
- - (frequency:8)
- Lose — (bbc__64286, __no translation__)
- lose — (bbc__102509, __no translation__)
- 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__)
- 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__)
- 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. #)
- 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__)
- 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__)
- 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__)
- 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__)
- 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__)
Derived forms
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