Difference between revisions of "senior"
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| − | Sey person age pass anoder person | + | Sey person age or level pass anoder person own. |
| − | :*{{ux|dv|Na everything I use '''senior''' you. |(LAG_22_I-Senior-You_DG__85 | + | :*{{ux|dv|Na everything I use '''senior''' you. |(LAG_22_I-Senior-You_DG__85, I am better than you in every ramification.)}} |
| − | :*{{ux|dv| | + | :*{{ux|dv|I '''senior''' you. |(LAG_22_I-Senior-You_DG__86, I am older than you.)}} |
| − | :*{{ux|dv| | + | :*{{ux|dv|Dat guy '''senior''' me by far. |(Egbokhare__2020, The guy is much more older than myself.}} |
| − | :*{{ux|dv|I '''senior''' | + | :*{{ux|dv|Di woman '''senior''' me, but I '''senior''' am. |(LAG_11_Adeniyi-Lifestory_MG__125, She is older than me, but I am superior to her.)}} |
| − | :*{{ux|dv| | + | :*{{ux|dv|Di woman go fit warn di man one day sey I '''senior''' you o! |(BEN_37_French-President-Marriage_DG__64, She could bring up the trump card about being older than her husband!)}} |
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Revision as of 12:38, 26 November 2020
Naija
Etymology
From: English senior
Pronunciation
- sínjɔ̀
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 10
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 709
- Frequency in raw corpus: 449
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 710
Noun
Na person wey don pass junior level for school.
- Dat senior for grammar school dat year na kura. — (NSC__Abonyi__2020, That senior student in our secondary school was quite notorious.)
- All di senior sabi oppress junior collect their food money. — (NSC__Abonyi__2020, The senior students are fond of bullying the junior students and dispossessing them of their pocket money.)
Adjective
Na sey person old pass anoder person or get position wey high pass anoder person position.
- Na Ezeudu be senior for this quarter for Umuofia. — (katakata__576, Ezeudu is an older person in Umuofia.)
- Na im be di most senior pesin wey dem vote for inside our party. — (bbc__5106, He is the highest ranking person in our party.)
- Dis na di most senior official for Trump government wey go visit Nigeria. — (bbc__41380, This is the highest ranking official in the Trump administration to visit Nigeria.)
Verb
Sey person age or level pass anoder person own.
- Na everything I use senior you. — (LAG_22_I-Senior-You_DG__85, I am better than you in every ramification.)
- I senior you. — (LAG_22_I-Senior-You_DG__86, I am older than you.)
- Dat guy senior me by far. — (Egbokhare__2020, The guy is much more older than myself.
- Di woman senior me, but I senior am. — (LAG_11_Adeniyi-Lifestory_MG__125, She is older than me, but I am superior to her.)
- Di woman go fit warn di man one day sey I senior you o! — (BEN_37_French-President-Marriage_DG__64, She could bring up the trump card about being older than her husband!)
Related forms
Synonyms
Antonyms
- junior
Translations
- English: older one, superior