on
Naija
Alternative forms
- aghaeze 0.44 11, motorbike 0.44 12, scorer 0.42 60, kasoa 0.41 7, evening 0.41 325, afternoon 0.40 251, breaking 0.40 36, scorers 0.40 6, ash 0.40 30
Etymology
Borrowed from English on
Pronunciation
- ɔn
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 233
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 73
- Frequency in raw corpus: 11488
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 38
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Preposition
on: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:10990)
- Hold on! — (BEN_24_Bunkering_DG__80, Hold on !)
- Come on! — (WAZA_07_Self-Medication_T__153, Come on !)
- dep (frequency:211)
- on top of road matter. — (NST_cleaned__32995, __no translation__)
- Den join kind Chicken on top. — (NST_cleaned__20332, __no translation__)
- advmod (frequency:14)
- So still on still, we enta Ajegunle, — (LAG_18_Lagos-Districts_M__29, So, still on that, we get to Ajegunle.)
- Still on still, people still dey do good, — (LAG_18_Lagos-Districts_M__44, Still on the that, people are still doing good.)
- conj (frequency:13)
- so how you go come do am now?ah you go read on and on and on — (deuber__1077, __no translation__)
- I present the weekend shows on Naijafm102.7 on Saturdays and on... — (ja102__2765, __no translation__)
- cc (frequency:4)
- so how you go come do am now?ah you go read on and on and on — (deuber__1077, __no translation__)
- I present the weekend shows on Naijafm102.7 on Saturdays and on... — (ja102__2765, __no translation__)
- obl:mod (frequency:4)
- One South Sudan rebel pose with im weapon on in first day of rest inside Yondu, near di southern city of Kaya. — (bbc__78095, __no translation__)
- But three weeks on, Ghanaians den families of de kidnapped girls no hear any news of dema rescue until dis fake news drop dis week. — (bbc__23557, __no translation__)
- advmod-cc (frequency:4)
- Weda na police versus military, civil defence corps versus police, DSS versus EFCC, immigration versus customs and so on. — (bbc__74931, __no translation__)
- Dat time one storyteller bin dey go from village to village, especially during di time of harvest, and dem go tell storyof slavery and so on. — (bbc__99677, __no translation__)
- nsubj (frequency:3)
- A day on Ghanaians give di 66-year-old anti-corruption crusader 21-gun salute for in performance. — (bbc__54210, __no translation__)
- Dem tok say dis on fit block Muslim graduates wey dey ready to enta service and say religious wahala fit happen because according to dem, Hungry man na angry man. — (bbc__29890, __no translation__)
- cc-dep (frequency:3)
- One of di things wey fit cause Lassa fever na contact with food wey bush rat don either piss or poopoo on top. — (bbc__78625, __no translation__)
- According to di information ontop Army website, applicants must be Nigerian by birth, get National Identity card, get four credits in not more than two sittings for inside WASSCE/GCE/NECO/NABTEB and on eof dem must be English Language. — (bbc__11890, __no translation__)
- advcl (frequency:2)
- My, for our house, na only English, and maybe sey na Hausa depending on if we like get visitor wey come house. — (NST_cleaned__2062, __no translation__)
- Reuters Lionel Messi score hat-trick wey get PHD as Barcelona revenge dia defeat for di hand of Real Betis earlier on for di season to give dem 10 points ontop La Liga. — (bbc__85283, __no translation__)
Derived forms
- Now I con call dis guy later on. — (KAD_09_Kabir-Gymnasium_MG__83, Now, I called this guy later on.)
- But later on, tings do as e wan do. — (LAG_37_Soap-Making_MG__6, But later on, things went bad.)* on top
- Any leaf wey you just get, you just put am on top. — (KAD_10_Egusi-Soup_MG__26, Whatever leaf vegetable you have, just put it in.)
- De say de wan add pump price money, de wan put five naira on top. — (WAZK_08_Fuel-Price-Increase_MG__90, That they want to raise the pump price by five naira.)
Synonymes
- aghaeze 0.44 11, motorbike 0.44 12, scorer 0.42 60, kasoa 0.41 7, evening 0.41 325, afternoon 0.40 251, breaking 0.40 36, scorers 0.40 6, ash 0.40 30
Antonymes
- aghaeze 0.44 11, motorbike 0.44 12, scorer 0.42 60, kasoa 0.41 7, evening 0.41 325, afternoon 0.40 251, breaking 0.40 36, scorers 0.40 6, ash 0.40 30
Translations
- English: no definition