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Naija

Etymology

From: unknown

Pronunciation

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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

Time wey someting happen.

  • E go want taste am na haha.  — (LAG_36_Marriage_DG__34, He wil want to taste it now.)

Translations

  • English: now



Verb

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

  • 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


Pronoun

Wetin person dey use talk about someting when 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.)

Translations

  • English: it's