na

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

• Make someting con equal to.

1. 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.)

Related forms

• na im

1. So na im o.  — (ABJ_GWA_06_Ugo-Lifestory_MG__77, So, that's it.)

• sey na

1. 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...)

• naim

Synonyms

• be, dey

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