sense
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English sense
Pronunciation
- sɛns
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 31
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 338
- Frequency in raw corpus: 878
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 399
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
sense: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:610)
- E make sense. — (KAN_02_Girls-Life-In-Kano_DG__104, It makes sense.)
- No dress sense. — (JOS_10_Mothers-Against-Mini-Skirts_DG__29, No sense of dress.)
- amod (frequency:48)
- You get deep sense, — (jw__47615, __no translation__)
- Get better sense, my pikin hear me. — (jw__12907, __no translation__)
- det (frequency:12)
- And e no make any sense. — (KAD_23_Christians-In-Kaduna_DG__143, And it does not make any sense.)
- This sense de help us treat everybody the same way. — (jw__3207, __no translation__)
- acl (frequency:10)
- E make sense to dey do like Jehovah. — (jw__8975, __no translation__)
- Jehovah give dem sense to do the work. — (jw__23583, __no translation__)
- case (frequency:10)
- Pray for sense to choose the correct thing. — (jw__30322, __no translation__)
- Rajoy don also tell Puigdemont to act with sense. — (bbc__84581, __no translation__)
- cc (frequency:9)
- We dey copy Jesus example and sense. — (jw__39052, __no translation__)
- The young sister happy well well sey Jehovah give am power and sense to talk about that hard topic. — (jw__12002, __no translation__)
- conj (frequency:9)
- God don give us sense and power to think. — (jw__12901, __no translation__)
- E dey give us sense and power to fit bear any wahala.— Jas. — (jw__18569, __no translation__)
- nmod (frequency:7)
- How Jehovah sense take pass the one wey dey this world? — (jw__14158, __no translation__)
- NA Jehovah sense dey come from, and e like to give people sense. — (jw__24873, __no translation__)
- amod-det (frequency:5)
- You know some of dem get one kind sense. — (JOS_10_Mothers-Against-Mini-Skirts_DG__38, You know some of them have some sense.)
- Young people need this kind sense to get life. — (jw__47976, __no translation__)
- dep (frequency:3)
- Na sense we take preach for there. — (jw__39946, __no translation__)
- So na sense we take dey preach for the area. — (jw__732, __no translation__)
- acl-det (frequency:3)
- Na only Jehovah get the sense to fit bring peace. — (jw__12575, __no translation__)
- This one go still help us get the sense to choose well.— Heb. — (jw__15268, __no translation__)
- amod-cc (frequency:3)
- We fit see am from wetin Bible talk about deep sense and good sense. — (jw__39458, __no translation__)
- The truth be sey, na God give us power and better sense to fit dey do things, and the way we dey use wetin e give us concern am. — (jw__43828, __no translation__)
- dep-det (frequency:2)
- You go fit show am if, you get the power to follow God law, the sense to avoid place wey fit make you do bad thing and love to do wetin go make the girl happy. — (jw__17012, __no translation__)
- Dat one show sey God, our loving father, as e create all of us, e give us different, different gifts according to our power, according to our ability, according to di sense wey e give us. — (JOS_18_Xtian-Preach_M__21, That one shows that God our loving father, as He created all of us, he gave us different gifts, according to our power, according to our ability, according to the sense that he gave us,)
- det-nmod (frequency:2)
- We respect di sense him get and we no go fit run tins wey go abuse wetin im bin dey do. — (bbc__1022, __no translation__)
- Read the foreword of the New World Translation, and answer the question: “With what sense of responsibility did the translation committee produce this Bible?” Then compare their rendering of the following verses with that of other translations that you may possess: Genesis 25:29; Isaiah 14:23; Matthew 5:3; 11:12; 1 Corinthians 10:24, 25; Philippians 1:8 . — (jw__31205, __no translation__)
Derived forms
- di rights wey we get, as human beings, God come give us beta sense wey — (human_rights__104, __no translation__)
- Im no scata di unit but im say make im dem get new commissioner, make dem dey use beta sense and make dem face armed robbers and kidnappers. — (bbc__58792, __no translation__)
- Naija Fm 102.7 dey give out four hundred thousand to support one of the listeners wey get business sense. — (ja102__548, __no translation__)
- Na people wey get correct business sense dey build great nations because dem use dia hands do anything wey dem fit do because of di condition wey dem find demsef. — (bbc__5186, __no translation__)
Synonyms
- faith 0.64 848, correct 0.60 1344, good 0.59 3676, opportunity 0.59 272, joy 0.59 193, beta 0.58 773, mind 0.58 3840, interest 0.56 245, evidence 0.56 198
Antonyms
- faith 0.64 848, correct 0.60 1344, good 0.59 3676, opportunity 0.59 272, joy 0.59 193, beta 0.58 773, mind 0.58 3840, interest 0.56 245, evidence 0.56 198
Translations
- English: no definition