mate
Naija
Etymology
From English mate
Pronunciation
- mêt
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 5
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1131
- Frequency in raw corpus: 108
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1982
Noun
- Person wey be di same age wit anoder person.
- I no be your mate. — (Egbokhare_2021, I am not your age mate.)
- Joke, na, na one of our, our mate. — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__118, Joke is...is one of our...our mates.)
- Because no be only me, many of my mate too sef. — (ABJ_INF_12_Evictions_MG__74, Because I am not the only one, many of my mates too.)
- Person wey dey di same post wit anoder person.
- Di governemnt of America and di government of Russia, don reveal say, dia two oga presido, Donald Trump and ein mate for Russia, Vladimir Putin, go yan with each other, thru telephone on Saturday. — (ja102__1817, __no translation__)
- {{ux|dv|De say, di presido wey land di state dis afternoon, na di governor of Plateau state, Simon Lalong plus ein mate from Nasarawa state, Tanko Almakura, plus plenty crowd of politik office holder-dem from across di politik divide inside di both state follo receive-am. |(ja102__1396, __no translation__
- Person wey be assistant to anoder person.
- Presido Buhari don already declare sha and na Osinbajo go follow am contest as running mate. — (bbc__83703, President Buhari has really declared that it is Osinbajo will follow him as running mate.)
Translations
- English: age mate