money

Naija

Alternative forms

• moni 0.78 871, tax 0.65 523, salary 0.63 385, power 0.58 1862, property 0.58 448, gbese 0.57 40, customers 0.54 179, equipment 0.54 154, bribe 0.54 119

Etymology

Borrowed from English money

Pronunciation

• ˈməni

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 300
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 61
• Frequency in raw corpus: 4049
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 93

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

money: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:1680)

   Money.  — (ONI_13_Current-Interests_DG__105, Money.)

   Money...  — (NST_cleaned__38415, __no translation__)

2. det (frequency:499)

   No money.  — (KAD_01_Students-Life_DG__64, No money.)

   no money.  — (NST_cleaned__33407, __no translation__)

3. amod (frequency:278)

   Heavy money!  — (ENU_37_Dmoris-Restaurant_MG__67, Serious money!)

   Na small money,  — (NST_cleaned__3265, __no translation__)

4. case (frequency:145)

   Na waste of money!  — (jw__47656, __no translation__)

   Dis one is for money,  — (LAG_09_Country-Wahala_DG__114, This one is for money.)

5. conj (frequency:67)

   Money, and fame,  — (ONI_13_Current-Interests_DG__88, Money and fame.)

   Money and property.  — (jw__24544, __no translation__)

6. cc (frequency:44)

   Because money…  — (PRT_06_Port-Harcourt_DG__139, because money...)

   I con sabi di work now, and money.  — (ABJ_GWA_08_David-Lifestory_MG__90, I already mastered the job and was making money.)

7. dep-det (frequency:41)

   See di money wey e don…  — (IBA_28_Moshood-And-Hassan_DG__97, see the money he had...)

   Na di money we dey talk about o!  — (NST_cleaned__923, __no translation__)

8. nmod (frequency:29)

   You ra~, rascal money haha.  — (LAG_14_Charles-And-Alfred-On-Music_DG__90, You ra... rascal money ?)

   Money for hand, back for ground.  — (deuber__5297, __no translation__)

9. acl (frequency:28)

   Me ma sef, I no even get money to pay.  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__101, Even me, I don't have money to pay.)

   if you dey find money to pay for shop.  — (deuber__1354, __no translation__)

10. dep (frequency:20)

    Na money be dat money.  — (NST_cleaned__26937, __no translation__)

    Na money me, I need o.  — (NST_cleaned__30414, __no translation__)

11. advmod (frequency:19)

    Because of what, money.  — (ONI_13_Current-Interests_DG__55, Because of what ? money.)

    Dis one wey everywhere dry, no money.  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__103, That everywhere is dry. There is no money.)

12. acl-det (frequency:14)

    no money to go school.  — (NST_cleaned__35989, __no translation__)

    You get di money to buy am?  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__75, Do you have the money to buy it ?)

13. cc-det (frequency:4)

    Because no money.  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__110, Because there is no money.)

    Tori say, wi naija army, today, don dash some cloth-dem plus some money to dat disable-man, Mr.  — (ja102__4994, __no translation__)

14. amod-cc (frequency:4)

    Big title, and small money.  — (IBA_24_Mummy-Debbie_DG__206, Big title and small money.)

    But today, some kontri pipo like Nigerians no even fit smell Britain without visa plus plenti money for account.  — (bbc__23583, __no translation__)

15. appos (frequency:3)

    It'S money, money, money  — (NST_cleaned__22527, __no translation__)

    Any small ting, na money, money, money, money.  — (NST_cleaned__22467, __no translation__)

16. cc-nmod (frequency:3)

    Help wey dem give for subsection and for dis section fit dey in kind or for some case, money.  — (hildrights__600, __no translation__)

    give am small money wey dem dey call grant wey go make am fit dey pay im school or training money.  — (hildrights__603, __no translation__)

17. obj (frequency:2)

    na money everybody money money money  — (deuber__3085, __no translation__)

    Mahn she dey mahn lack, she dey mahn lack am for money sef men.  — (ABJ_GWA_11_Hungry-No-Go-Kill-Us_DG__67, She is even lacking money.)

Derived forms

• fuel money

1. Like sey de dey reason sey de wan put five naira on top of fuel money.  — (NST_cleaned__32938, __no translation__)

   You talk sey if de now mean to add di five naira for fuel money, e mean sey de wan indirectly increase fuel pump price for filling stations dem.  — (WAZK_09_Fuel-Price-Increase_M__50, You said, if they do not mean to add the five naira to the amount of fuel, it means that they want to indirectly increase fuel pump price at filling stations all.)

• money tin

1. dese people wey de do money, money tin, na dere, I go dey mstchew.  — (NST_cleaned__34499, __no translation__)

   Sey na only bank, and eh... dese people wey de do money, money tin, na dere, I go dey mstchew.  — (LAG_11_Adeniyi-Lifestory_MG__61, That I'll only be in the bank, and uh... these people who are into money, money things, mstchew.)

• oil money

1. Di Commission say because oil money don finish, di government no fit pay di scholarship money again.  — (bbc__31011, __no translation__)

   If we look di matter well well, we go see say dat oil money awuf tabi oil boom, e do our country good and bad.  — (deuber__5241, __no translation__)

• tax money

1. Oga or reduce tax money for genuine manufacturer-dem and importer-dem.  — (ja102__3743, __no translation__)

   As e be so, na dis tax money na im Nigeria finance ministry dey focus on now.  — (bbc__17026, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• moni 0.78 871, tax 0.65 523, salary 0.63 385, power 0.58 1862, property 0.58 448, gbese 0.57 40, customers 0.54 179, equipment 0.54 154, bribe 0.54 119

Antonyms

• moni 0.78 871, tax 0.65 523, salary 0.63 385, power 0.58 1862, property 0.58 448, gbese 0.57 40, customers 0.54 179, equipment 0.54 154, bribe 0.54 119

Translations

• English: no definition