never

Naija

Alternative forms

• neva 0.79 963, don 0.55 34989, before 0.53 5895, no 0.50 46612, when 0.45 7140, bone 0.41 147, sef 0.40 1597, wan 0.40 6206, nobody 0.40 634

Etymology

Borrowed from English never

Pronunciation

• ˈnɛvər

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 72
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 182
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1837
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 208

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Auxiliary

never: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:1895)

   I never see.  — (KAD_06_Cooking_DG__211, I have never seen.)

   I never know.  — (LAG_14_Charles-And-Alfred-On-Music_DG__246, I don't know yet.)

2. nsubj (frequency:3)

   Hm for, I just dey start, I never, I never sabi French.  — (NST_cleaned__11415, __no translation__)

   Where our fore fada use leg waka reach, I never, I never wear am.  — (NST_cleaned__8238, __no translation__)

3. mark (frequency:2)

   Marvel For Nigeria, fim pipo inside Nollywood wey no dey carry last just release dia own version of di ogbonge fim wey never tey wen e come out, Black Panther  — (bbc__65869, __no translation__)

   Ehen at least, meh we still dey go for man wey still dey, wey dey grow dey come, wey never, e never make am for life, but we know sey for, e go, re~ make am for life because of di way e dey, we, because of di way we see am.  — (NST_cleaned__2941, __no translation__)

Synonymes

• neva 0.79 963, don 0.55 34989, before 0.53 5895, no 0.50 46612, when 0.45 7140, bone 0.41 147, sef 0.40 1597, wan 0.40 6206, nobody 0.40 634

Antonymes

• neva 0.79 963, don 0.55 34989, before 0.53 5895, no 0.50 46612, when 0.45 7140, bone 0.41 147, sef 0.40 1597, wan 0.40 6206, nobody 0.40 634

Translations

• English: no definition