place

Naija

Etymology

From: English place

Pronunciation

  • pléìs

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 139
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 108
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 2368
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 170

Noun

  1. Na area where houses dey wey people dey stay.
    Na dat place wey near Mammy market my house dey.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. My house is close to the Mammy market.)
    • Dat place name na Haran.  — (jw__17345. The name of the place is Haran.)
    • I know dat place.  — (IBA_28_Moshood-And-Hassan_DG__102, I know that place.)
    Make I stay for dat place.  — (IBA_20_Bose-Alade_MG__81, Let me stay in that place.)
  2. Na area wey person from come.
    Na this place Nathanael come from.  — (jw__37414, __no translation__)
  3. Na when person dey talk about anoder area different from him own.
    Na another place Nora for serve.  — (jw__5079, __no translation__)
    The time and the place dey this invitation .  — (jw__38916, __no translation__)

Verb

  1. I surprise sey e no tey before I place all the book wey dey with me.  — (jw__24907, __no translation__)
    Anything wey you place value, anyting wey be sey you love, anyting wey you treasure, we fit protect am.  — (LAG_12_Insurance_MG__16, We can protect anything you place value on, anything you love, anything you treasure.)
  2. mark-obj-obl:arg (frequency:3)
    Mikel Obi throw pass give Odion Ighalo wey place d ball inside di net.  — (bbc__69697, __no translation__)
    Di women wey place di accuse say dem bin no report di abuse on top say dem bin dey fear for dem work.  — (bbc__39664, __no translation__)
    So first of all now, you wey dey listen to me, you go solve your financial problem, den you go attend my training so dat you go know how to place your priorities right.  — (WAZP_03_Education_MG__78, So first of all, you who's listening to me, you will solve your financial problem and then you will attend my training so that you will know how to place your priorities right.)
  1. Di club bin place Abdullahi wey get contract wit di Italian side until June 2021 on 'period of rest' afta heart tests im do for March 2018.  — (bbc__33581, __no translation__)
    Based on the tori wey dey The Cable , di minister follow yan say di pipo wey dey place order dey arrange make e land for morning, through British Airways aeroplane and dem go carry wake enta airport to collect am.  — (bbc__19208, __no translation__)

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Translations

  • English: location,