service

Naija

Etymology

From: English service

Pronunciation

• sɛ́vìs

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 13
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 615
• Frequency in raw corpus: 516
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 634

Noun

1. Na time wey de dey use worship for church.

   • I bin go morning service.  — Egbokhare_221, I went for church service in the morning.
   • Im wan go service.  — (ENU_22_Barman-Interview_MG__59, He wants to go to church service.)

2. Na di short way de dey take call di National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) wey student wey finish university dey use serve their papa country, Naija.

   One of di ways to get experience na to do internship or offer your service free for sometime for industry wey you go like work and build career inside.  — (bbc__78648, __no translation__)

   I con go for service for Bayelsa State.  — (WAZP_07_Imonirhua-Lifestory_MG__26, Then I went into the Youth Service Corps in Bayelsa State.)

   Okay so my plan be sey, if I finish from here, I finish my NYSC, I for don finish my service, I go do, I wan do my masters.  — (NST_cleaned__2030, __no translation__)

3. Na as de dey change oil wey dey inside motor engine put new one and clean inside motor engine make e dey work fine more more.

   if e don due for service, or wheder di oil still...  — (NST_cleaned__34675, __no translation__)

4. Na di kind ting wey private company or government office people get to offer person.

   • Make sure say your network get good coverage before you use di service.  — (bbc__64929, __no translation__)
   • She say dia is no amount of money wey you fit pay for dis service.  — (bbc__88798, __no translation__)
   • Oga in charge for di service say di business get profit yakata if you know di koko.  — (bbc__77035, The boss providing the service affirmed that the business is quite profitable as long as one knows the ropes.)
   • Dis new service go dey on top digital platforms and go use Pidgin wey dem dey speak for West and Central Africa as dem language.  — (bbc__41872, )

5. Na network for internet wey e de dey inside person phone.

   • If you like go buy kpalasa phone o, na so service go hard you find see.  — (NSC_Abonyi_221, If you buy a regular phone you may find it hard to get network access.)

Related forms

• secret service, civil service

Synonyms

• network

Translations

• English: church service, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), car servicing, service, internet network

Verb

Na sey man dey sleep with woman.

• Husband wey dey service e wife well no dey get di kind problem wey di one wey no dey service e own well go get.  — (NSC_Abonyi_221, The problem that a husband who has regular sex with his wife may encounter in his marriage differs from that of his counterpart who falls short in that regard.)

Synonyms

• nack,

Translations

• English: to have sex