say
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From English say
Pronunciation
- sé
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 705
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 35
- Frequency in raw corpus: 48357
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 9
Transitive Verb
- Make person talk someting.
- Moh say someting. — (NSC_Tella_2021, You should say something.)
- E no wan say di truth. — (NSC_Tella_2021, He doesn't want to say the truth.)
Intransitive Verb
- E even give me transport, say oya go school, go school. — (ABJ_GWA_03_Cost-Of-Living-In-Abuja_MG__107, He even gave me the transportation fare and said, ' go to school, go to school' .)
Serial Verb
- E follow dem say rubbish. — (NSC_Tella_2021, He joined them to pass a senseless talk.)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: say