make

Naija

Alternative forms

Etymology

From: English make

Pronunciation

  • mêk

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 751
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 29
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 24928
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 17


Auxiliary

  • Jussive as in English let
    • No be like dat, but I still dey tink sey make I…  — (IBA_08_Music-And-Art-Students_DG__185, It's not like that, but I am still thinking that I should do...)
    • Na im make Sanchez no wan stay.  — (PRT_03_Football_DG__200, That is why Sanchez does not want stay.)


Translations

  • English: let

Verb

  1. Make person do someting.
    • Im sabi how dem make suya.  — (NSC_Tella_2021, He knows how to prepare suya.)
    • So dis are di things dat make shawarma.  — (LAG_27_Shawarma_MG__27, So these are the things we use to make shawarma.)
  2. Make person become successful.
    • Di guy don make it .  — (NSC_Tella_2021, The guy has become successful.)


Related forms

Translations

  • English: let, do, successful