now

Naija

Alternative forms

• still 0.56 6514, okay 0.52 1302, here 0.52 1186, dere 0.51 1047, ehen 0.48 871, e 0.48 46271, today 0.48 2190, just 0.47 5577, eh 0.47 2575

Etymology

Borrowed from English now

Pronunciation

• náù

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 802
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 28
• Frequency in raw corpus: 7444
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 56

Adverb

• Someting wey dey happen at di time.

1. Why na now you con dey write JAMB now?  — (ABJ_GWA_13_Small-Jobs_DG__42, Why is it now you are writing JAMB ?)
2. Workers say oga, you don come, na now you come.  — (ABJ_INF_05_On-Pidgin_M__28, The workers said, Boss, you have started communicating. Now you're talking. )
3. No be im call just now?  — (IBA_39_Easter-Preparations_DG__79, Is she not the one that called just now ?)

• Like an exclamation wey mean really

1. But now, and even now, e con make dey more conscious of wetin women dey go trough.  — (NST_cleaned, They are now conscious of what women are going through.)
2. Why you no watch di ball now my broda?  — (NST_cleaned__31233, Why didn't you really watch the ball, my brother. )

Related forms

• now now

Translations

• English: now