sey

Naija

Alternative forms

• say

Etymology

From English say

Pronunciation

• sé

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1702
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 9
• Frequency in raw corpus: 20306
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 23

Subordinating conjunction

• e dey join big and small talk together.

1. My oga talk sey e no dey di matter.  — NSC_Tella_2021, My boss said that he is out of the matter.
2. E come house sey dem no dey give am food chop.  —  NSC_Ajede_2020, (He came to the house that he/she is not being fed

Translations

• English: that.