meh

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Naija

Alternative forms

Etymology

From: English make

Pronunciation

  • méh*

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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.


  1. Shey valentine day, meh, we go go club?  — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__180, [Shey] Valentine day, are we going to the club ?)
  2. Anyone wey you wan go, meh you go.  — (KAD_24_Biography_M__91, Anyone which you want to go, go.)
  3. Meh we, meh we care for dem,  — (ABJ_INF_07_Street-Children_M__74, Let us... let's take care of them)

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Subordinating Conjunction

  • Meh, that
  1. 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.)
  2. 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.)


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Translations

  • English: let, that