sef
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From: English self
Pronunciation
- sɛ̂f
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 164
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 92
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1489
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 258
Particle
- Na de main ting gangan.
- Who sef? — (JOS_33_Changing-Nigeria_DG__87, Who actually?)
- Wetin sef? — (IBA_07_Na-Love_DG__311, What?!)
Particle (reflexive)
- Na when person dey talk about imself.
- you sef, you no dey try at all!. — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. You are not just pulling your weight!)
- you sef, you no dey try at all!. — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. You are not just pulling your weight!)
- Na when person dey talk about anoder person gangangan.
- You sef join make life hard for me dat year. — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. You too, are part of it)
- Im papa sef dey come — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. His father is coming too)
- Dem dey use am dey halla when person no dey measure up
- you sef, you no dey try at all!. — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. You are not just pulling your weight!)
- Barcelona too get many wahala sef. — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. Barcelona is bedevilled by so many challenges!
- Na person identity
- Na me call you sef, no be your papa. — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. You are not just pulling your weight!)
Related form
Synonyms
Translations
- English: even you