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===Etymology=== | ===Etymology=== | ||
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===Auxiliary=== | ===Auxiliary=== | ||
| − | + | * Jussive, as in English ''let''. | |
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| − | * English: ''that'' | + | * English: ''let, that'' |
Revision as of 17:00, 8 September 2021
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From: English make
Pronunciation
- méh*
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 187
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 86
- Frequency in raw corpus: 687
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 494
Auxiliary
- Jussive, as in English let.
- Shey valentine day, meh, we go go club? — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__180, [Shey] Valentine day, are we going to the club ?)
- Anyone wey you wan go, meh you go. — (KAD_24_Biography_M__91, Anyone which you want to go, go.)
- Meh we, meh we care for dem, — (ABJ_INF_07_Street-Children_M__74, Let us... let's take care of them)
Related forms
Subordinating Conjunction
- Meh, that
- di man dey pay me di work meh I dey do. — (NST_cleaned__40381, The man is paying for the work that I'm doing.)
- We con say toh all money meh we don save, meh we carry am con give am. — (ABJ_GWA_10_Steven-Lifestory_MG__80, Then we said well, all the money we've saved, we should bring it to her.)
Related forms
Translations
- English: let, that