school

Naija

Etymology

Borrowed from English school

Pronunciation

• skul

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 218
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 75
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2622
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 158

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

school: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:1179)

   School  — (bbc__87152, __no translation__)

   Go school?  — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__43, Go to school ?)

2. case (frequency:371)

   Na for, na for school.  — (NST_cleaned__24832, __no translation__)

   So I drop out for school.  — (ONI_02_I-Like-My-Girlfriend-So-Much_M__49, So, I dropped out of school)

3. det (frequency:204)

   And di school is empty.  — (NST_cleaned__8620, __no translation__)

   Mstchew, di school no...  — (NST_cleaned__40300, __no translation__)

4. amod (frequency:187)

   I con start primary school,  — (ABJ_NOU_04_M-Joshuas-Lifestory_M__13, Then I started my primary school.)

   No be sey na private school.  — (NST_cleaned__8622, __no translation__)

5. nmod (frequency:35)

   Na im be nursery school.  — (NST_cleaned__41260, __no translation__)

   School for Kingdom Evangelizers.  — (jw__31861, __no translation__)

6. conj (frequency:14)

   or dey go school or training;  — (hildrights__602, __no translation__)

   Some people, na school, and professional work.  — (NST_cleaned__20551, __no translation__)

7. advmod (frequency:14)

   If you talk sey, if you talk sey why you no school?  — (JOS_05_Buhari-Government_M__40, If you say...if you say, why didn't you go to school ?.)

   Even school, you no go, but na you wear, wear di good tins of life.  — (KAD_31_Girls-Education_M__23, Even school, you do not go, but it is you that wear the good things of life.)

8. cc (frequency:13)

   We go also build one orphanage, clinic and school.  — (bbc__83684, __no translation__)

   Whether na for house, congregation, work or school.  — (jw__39823, __no translation__)

9. dep (frequency:9)

   No be school im go,  — (NST_cleaned__12179, __no translation__)

   Na school I dey follow come so eh.  — (NST_cleaned__7090, __no translation__)

10. cc-det (frequency:3)

    And di school is empty.  — (JOS_36_People-Suffering_M__62, And the school is empty.)

    Dem name am afta Amaranta Gรณmez Regalado, one Mexican transgender politician and di school dey take care of children between 6 and 17 years.  — (bbc__29310, __no translation__)

11. amod-cc (frequency:3)

    Naim I come begin dey teach for one nursery, and primary school.  — (NST_cleaned__25018, __no translation__)

    Even since when I dey primary school c secondary school, university, come outside, de still dey talk about am.  — (NST_cleaned__10803, __no translation__)

12. obj (frequency:2)

    Separatists fighters kidnap pipo, among dem school pikin dem and teachers as deh di call for secession.  — (bbc__27691, __no translation__)

    News of di boy death last year for Kibeta Primary school Bukoba town make pipo para all over di kontri and demand justice for am.  — (bbc__72776, __no translation__)

13. dep-det (frequency:2)

    For yi message for youths President Biya no even tok about youths dem for de two regions some weh deh no di go school for more dan two years.  — (bbc__52559, __no translation__)

    You contact di school wey you wan go to make sure dem no get representative or agent inside your kontri already - most of dem dey get You carri your leg waka go di office of di agents, shine ya eye well well to see if anytin be like say dem wan do you feem trick Wen you dey send email to di agent, or dem dey send one to you, put di email of di University join, so dat dem go know as e dey go Wen time to pay don reach, no carri moni pay inside individual account of pesin, instead make di payment to company account If anytime your mind no settle for wetin agent dey do for you, call or email di University sharpaly to tok your mind.  — (bbc__101653, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• CMS school

1. CMS primary school wey dey Bariga.  — (NST_cleaned__34411, __no translation__)

   Na of CMS primary school, wey dey Bariga area of di state.  — (ja102__3444, __no translation__)

• go school

1. But deh di look for future for get place build de academy for put all pikin dem make deh di go school and train for de same taim.  — (bbc__22005, __no translation__)

   Plan Cameroon go put dis ECW project for ground for 12 moons and deh di di target pikin dem weh deh bi don di go school and de wan weh deh go start school.  — (bbc__81834, __no translation__)

• law school

1. Dem just do wetin dem dey call 'call to bar' for lawyers wey graduate for law school.  — (bbc__77211, __no translation__)

   Chaw people wey be qualified dey apply go law school for Ghana, but dem dey admit some small number.  — (bbc__25160, __no translation__)

• school age

1. Anoda parent Badamasi Isah tok say e also get two children of school age wey dey house because wetin to chop na im be priority for now.  — (bbc__15579, __no translation__)

   Section 2 of di Compulsory Free Universal Basic Education Act say evri goment for Nigeria go provide free, compulsory education for evri pikin wey dey primary and junior secondsry school age.  — (bbc__87335, __no translation__)

• school boy

1. Fayose wey dress like school boy, wear T-shirt wey dem customize EFCC I'm Here wit jeans and face cap.  — (bbc__48813, __no translation__)

   GBHS Deido Cameroon Health Minister, Manaouda Malachie don suspend de nurses dem weh deh film school boy weh e class mate chuk wit nife shar'am for social media.  — (bbc__53328, __no translation__)

• school bus

1. Even for some areas inside Delhi di country capital, schools close after protesters throw stones scatter di windows of one school bus on Wednesday.  — (bbc__47510, __no translation__)

   Di issue don raise dust for Trademore, Lugbe where di school dey operate as people dey wonder how dat kain thing take happen, wey school bus go burn with children inside.  — (bbc__35304, __no translation__)

• school day

1. Tori be say di school wey dey made up of wood and corrugated iron sheet collapse minutes afta di start of di school day.  — (bbc__95059, __no translation__)

   Okay you can imagine dat time, dat your board now (very small board o), ehn and all di tings wey you do for school dat day, go dey dere. (ENU_06_After-School-Lessons_DG__49, Okay, you can imagine that time, that your board now  — (a very small board too), ehn, and all the things you did in school that day, will be there.)

• school fees

1. Con pay my school fees.  — (ABJ_NOU_04_M-Joshuas-Lifestory_M__56, Then I payed my school fees.)

   No school fees, no food.  — (IBA_21_Obodo-Barracks_MG__25, No school fees, no food.)

• school lab

1. we go go, or we go go cyber cafe, or we go go our school lab go collect work wey person don do.  — (NST_cleaned__39555, __no translation__)

   If me, and you do research, na computer... we go go, or we go go cyber cafe, or we go go our school lab go collect work wey person don do.  — (JOS_14_Chibozor-View-About-Nigeria_MG__78, If you and I do research, we will go to a computer... or we will go to a cyber café, or we will go to our school lab to collect what someone else has done.)

• school time

1. Cultural, I don make money from am from, from my secondary school time, con dey eh you know…  — (ENU_14_I-Like-Dance-Well-Well_M__7, Cultural, I have made money from it from from my secondary school time and then I, you know.)

   State Government go provide give pikin wey dey go school, where dem dey give am care and wetin be like am as e suppose be – for outside school time ;  — (hildrights__1127, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• schools 0.72 381, secondary 0.69 274, primary 0.64 299, class 0.63 243, teacher 0.60 350, student 0.59 518, students 0.59 820, university 0.58 1217, clinic 0.56 98

Antonyms

• schools 0.72 381, secondary 0.69 274, primary 0.64 299, class 0.63 243, teacher 0.60 350, student 0.59 518, students 0.59 820, university 0.58 1217, clinic 0.56 98

Translations

• English: no definition

Verb

school: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. aux (frequency:2)

   But who go school, we no need all dose process for am.  — (BEN_09_Tailoring-Immunization_MG__23, But for someone schooled, we don't need to do all this for them.)

   Because if na who go school, na small work, na im we go do follow di person.  — (BEN_09_Tailoring-Immunization_MG__4, Because if they're schooled, a small job is what we'll do with them.)

Synonyms

• schools 0.72 381, secondary 0.69 274, primary 0.64 299, class 0.63 243, teacher 0.60 350, student 0.59 518, students 0.59 820, university 0.58 1217, clinic 0.56 98

Antonyms

• schools 0.72 381, secondary 0.69 274, primary 0.64 299, class 0.63 243, teacher 0.60 350, student 0.59 518, students 0.59 820, university 0.58 1217, clinic 0.56 98

Translations

• English: no definition