sha

Naija

Alternative forms

• mstchew 0.76 423, hm 0.70 1176, oh 0.66 337, really 0.64 1685, haha 0.64 836, yes 0.63 760, ehen 0.62 871, toh 0.60 307, sometimes 0.60 599

Etymology

Borrowed from English sha

Pronunciation

• ʃɑ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 72
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 181
• Frequency in raw corpus: 352
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 873

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Particle

sha: no definition, really -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:370)

   Who sha?  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__84, Who sha...)

   sure sha  — (deuber__1159, __no translation__)

2. advmod:emph (frequency:12)

   No be all of dem sha o, but many.  — (ABJ_INF_03_Nigerian-Men-Dey-Try_DG__52, Not all of them of course, but many.)

   But sha o, we sha thank God sey God don catch am.  — (IBA_33_News-Comments_MG__120, Well, we thank God that he's been apprehended.)

Synonymes

• mstchew 0.76 423, hm 0.70 1176, oh 0.66 337, really 0.64 1685, haha 0.64 836, yes 0.63 760, ehen 0.62 871, toh 0.60 307, sometimes 0.60 599

Antonymes

• mstchew 0.76 423, hm 0.70 1176, oh 0.66 337, really 0.64 1685, haha 0.64 836, yes 0.63 760, ehen 0.62 871, toh 0.60 307, sometimes 0.60 599

Translations

• English: no definition, really