make
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From: English make
Pronunciation
- mêk
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
- 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.)
- Make person become successful.
- Di guy don make it . — (NSC_Tella_2021, The guy has become successful.)
Related forms
Translations
- English: let, do, successful