message

Naija

Etymology

From: English message

Pronunciation

• mɛ́sȇdʒ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 10
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 716
• Frequency in raw corpus: 528
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 618

Definition

Di ting wey dem sey make person tell anoder person.

Noun

1. Wetin person dey tell anoder person.

   • My Oga say make I give Bisi one message.  — (NSC_Odirin_2020, My boss told me to deliver a message to Bisi.)
   • Dem leave message say make people no dey park motor for dere again.  — (NSC_Odirin_2020, The new instruction is that motorists should no longer park there.)

2. Someting wey person dey do for anoder person.

   • Eh na who send us message?  — (NSC_2020, Eh, who mandated us?)
   • Isaiah go the message.  — (jw__18993, Isaiah went on the errand.)

3. Wetin dem dey send person inside phone.

   • You don check di message wey dey your phone?  — (NSC_Odirin_2020, Have you checked your sms?)

4. Wetin pastor preach for church.

   • Dat message pastor preach today ehn, touch me die. I almost tell my sugar mummy say I no dey do again.  — (NSC_Odirin_2020, The sermon the pastor delivered today was really soul searching. I nearly almost discontinued my affair with my sugar mummy.)

Synonyms

sms

Translations

• English: errand, instruction, mandate, sermon

Verb

1. Make dem send person someting inside phone.
   • I go message you when I get the alert.  — NSC_Odirin_2020, I will send you a message when I receive the credit.)
2. Make dem tell person someting.

   • Send your pikin make she come message me wen you don ready.  — NSC_Odirin_2020, Tell your daughter to call me when you are ready.)

Synonyms

send

Antonyms

get

Translations

• English: text, inform