run

Naija

Etymology

From: English run

Pronunciation

  • rôn

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Definition

To carry leg move with speed from one place go reach another place

Verb

Intransitive

  1. Make person carry leg move with speed from one place go reach another place
    • Run! Popo don show with gun, dem go shoot us if we no take off sharp sharp.  — (NSC__Abonyi_2020, Run! The police have arrived with guns; they will shoot us if we do not run at once.)
    • Tori be say some of di officers fire shots and pipo run for dia life.  — (bbc__95319, The story is that some of the officers fired shots and people ran for dear lives)
    Di referees bin show Okagbare-Ighotegunor red card afta she begin run before dem blow whistle.  — (bbc__37808, __no translation__)
    • As e enter, na so all of us run.  — (ABJ_INF_09b_Old-Time-School_M__57, As soon as she entered, we all ran away.)
  2. Sey person no gree do someting wey no good
    • Wetin go help us run from sex wey no clean for God eye?  — (jw__42134, What will help us avoid unclean sex in God's eye?)
    • E good make students wey de do WAEC run from any kind bullet.  — (NSC__Abonyi_2020, It is good that students sitting for WAEC avoid all forms of examination malpractice.)
  3. Make person escape comot from somewhere or someting
    • This kain behaviour don show say she be person wen fit run.  — (bbc__6311, This kind of behaviour has revealed that she is one who is likely to abscond.)
    • Joseph and Mary carry their pikin run go Egypt that night, dem no waste time.  — (jw__21516, Joseph and Mary escaped with their child to Egypt that night, they didn't tarry.)

Transitive

  1. Make person dey control somewhere or someting
    • Government tire as de no know who dey run di protest for everywhere for di country.  — (NSC__Abonyi_2020, The government is confused as to who is in charge of the protest going on in different parts of the country.)
    • Nowadays e be like say na woman come dey run house sake of sey many don begin work office work.  — (NSC__Abonyi_2020, These days it looks as if the woman is the one who runs the home as many of them have started entering the corporate workplace.)
    • For Nigeria sports, na di men dem dey run things.  — (bbc__50513, In Nigeria sports it is the men who are in charge.)
  2. Sey person carry someting from place go another place
    • I have package to run.  — (JOS_40_Travelling-On-Nigerian-Roads_DG__82, I have a package to deliver.)
  1. Make person charter/use/someting
  1. Make person dey use mouth talk anyhow
    You still dey make your mouth dey run like sey…  — (NST_cleaned__14891, You are still running your mouth)

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Translations

  • English: run