okay

Naija

Alternative forms

• toh 0.81 307, ehen 0.77 871, yes 0.76 760, mstchew 0.73 423, haha 0.70 836, hm 0.69 1176, aha 0.65 300, ah 0.61 1840, oya 0.61 127

Etymology

Borrowed from English okay

Pronunciation

• ˌoʊˈkeɪ

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 189
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 84
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1197
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 309

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Interjection

okay: no definition, OK -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:732)

   Okay  — (LAG_17_Food-On-Campus_DG__135, Okay)

   okay  — (deuber__4917, __no translation__)

2. discourse (frequency:33)

   Okay ah!  — (NST_cleaned__15142, __no translation__)

   Hm okay.  — (BEN_19a_Man-Must-Wack_DG__64, Hm okay.)

3. obl:arg (frequency:18)

   Three K is okay for me.  — (KAD_05_Relationship-Discussion_DG__234, Three thousand is okay for me.)

   It'S okay for a man to do dis kind thing abi?  — (JOS_27_Man-And-Woman_DG__145, It's okay for a man to do this kind of a thing, right ?)

4. dep (frequency:10)

   Con talk sey okay.  — (BEN_36_Clever-Girl_MG__83, Then he said, okay.)

   I tell am sey okay.  — (ENU_02_Christmas-At-New-Berries_MG__14, I told her okay.)

5. advmod (frequency:7)

   Di ting dey okay well, well.  — (LAG_37_Soap-Making_MG__73, The thing is really great.)

   Toh dat ready made go dey okay now.  — (NST_cleaned__40018, __no translation__)

6. ccomp (frequency:6)

   Many states for Nigeria get di kind land wey dey okay to take plant rice because e fit grow on almost any kind of land.  — (bbc__65663, __no translation__)

   and give instruction as e reason sey e go dey okay make de make sure sey e dey okay to do, make dem follow di timetable.  — (hildrights__62, __no translation__)

7. advcl (frequency:5)

   We go come oursef, change our mind, come closer to God so dat tins go dey okay as we want am.  — (IBA_27_Nigerian-Police_DG__96, We will come to ourselves, change our mind, come closer to God, so that things will be okay, as we want it to be.)

   or send di pikin go workingplace wey be sey government don approve, except when e be sey di non-workingplaceal one no dey okay make e go.  — (hildrights__491, __no translation__)

8. conj (frequency:2)

   Na just to check whether di gen still dey okay, oil dey, whatever.  — (ENU_21_Solomon-And-Kingsman_DG__23, It's just to check whether the gen is still okay, there is oil, whatever.)

   Small coffee here, small coffee dia fit good for your body To dey drink coffee small small dey okay and three to four cup per day fit even get health benefit.  — (bbc__90302, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• toh 0.81 307, ehen 0.77 871, yes 0.76 760, mstchew 0.73 423, haha 0.70 836, hm 0.69 1176, aha 0.65 300, ah 0.61 1840, oya 0.61 127

Antonyms

• toh 0.81 307, ehen 0.77 871, yes 0.76 760, mstchew 0.73 423, haha 0.70 836, hm 0.69 1176, aha 0.65 300, ah 0.61 1840, oya 0.61 127

Translations

• English: no definition, OK