Difference between revisions of "na"
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===Verb===
 
===Verb===
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* Make someting con equal to.
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Wetin person dey use talk about someting wey person no wan use di name.
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:* {{ux|dv|'''Na''' village, '''na''' im dem dey. |(BEN_09_Tailoring-Immunization_MG__46, It's in the village, that's where they are.)}}
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#: {{ux|dv|'''Na''' village, '''na''' im dem dey. |(BEN_09_Tailoring-Immunization_MG__46, It's in the village, that's where they are.)}}
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:* {{ux|dv|'''Na''' fibroid, '''na''' im de do am. |(ABJ_GWA_10_Steven-Lifestory_MG__84, It was fibroid she had.)}}
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#: {{ux|dv|'''Na''' fibroid, '''na''' im de do am. |(ABJ_GWA_10_Steven-Lifestory_MG__84, It was fibroid she had.)}}
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:* {{ux|dv| My name '''na''' Ibrahim Salomi. |(ENU_01_Salomis-Egusi-Soup-Recipe_MG__1, My name is Ibrahim Salomi.)}}
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#: {{ux|dv|My name '''na''' Ibrahim Salomi. |(ENU_01_Salomis-Egusi-Soup-Recipe_MG__1, My name is Ibrahim Salomi.)}}
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:* {{ux|dv| My name '''na''' Joke Babatunde. |(IBA_23_Bitter-Leaf-Soup_MG__2, My name is Joke Babatunde.)}}
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#: {{ux|dv|My name '''na''' Joke Babatunde. |(IBA_23_Bitter-Leaf-Soup_MG__2, My name is Joke Babatunde.)}}
 
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====Related forms====
 
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* [[na im|na im]]
 
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#: {{ux|dv|So na im o. |(ABJ_GWA_06_Ugo-Lifestory_MG__77, So, that's it.)}}
 
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* [[sey na|sey na]]
 
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#: {{ux|dv|E be like sey na I... I smuggle mysef enter di country, but meanwhile, na me, get country, na me, be my... |(ABJ_INF_12_Evictions_MG__17, It's like I... I smuggled myself into the country, but actually, it's my country, it's me, it's my...)}}
 
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* [[naim | naim]]
 
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====Synonyms====
 
====Synonyms====
 
* [[be]], [[dey]]
 
* [[be]], [[dey]]
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====Translations====
 
====Translations====
 
* English: ''is'' a ''be'' form
 
* English: ''is'' a ''be'' form

Revision as of 11:19, 18 March 2021

Naija

Etymology

From Portuguese na

Pronunciation

  • nà

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 2008
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 6
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 41064
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 13

Adverb

  • (Discursive) time wey we dey for someting.
  1. E go want taste am na haha.  — (LAG_36_Marriage_DG__34, He will just want to taste it now, haha.)

Translations

  • English: now

Verb

Wetin person dey use talk about someting wey person no wan use di name.

  • Na village, na im dem dey.  — (BEN_09_Tailoring-Immunization_MG__46, It's in the village, that's where they are.)
  • Na fibroid, na im de do am.  — (ABJ_GWA_10_Steven-Lifestory_MG__84, It was fibroid she had.)
  • My name na Ibrahim Salomi.  — (ENU_01_Salomis-Egusi-Soup-Recipe_MG__1, My name is Ibrahim Salomi.)
  • My name na Joke Babatunde.  — (IBA_23_Bitter-Leaf-Soup_MG__2, My name is Joke Babatunde.)

Synonyms

Translations

  • English: is a be form

Particle

Di marker wey de dey use focus word for sentence.

  1. and na im be di cheapest  — (deuber__3875, And it is the cheapest)
  2. Na yesterday Sunday o, na im dis one shele for Lagos.  — (deuber, It was Sunday, yesterday, that was when this one happenend in Lagos)
    Na so because that kind love dey deceive people.  — (jw__10522, It is so, because that kind of love deceives people.)

Translations

  • English: is
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