she

Naija

Etymology

Borrowed from English she

Pronunciation

• ʃi

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 246
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 67
• Frequency in raw corpus: 7323
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 57

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Pronoun

she: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:5686)

   She con…  — (JOS_08_Girls-Wey-No-Sabi-Cook_M__61, She the...)

   She tok.  — (bbc__9089, __no translation__)

2. conj (frequency:54)

   Meh she cook, she, and her husband, meh una eat.  — (NST_cleaned__31790, __no translation__)

   But now dem don say she and her family dey under arrest.  — (bbc__17306, __no translation__)

3. advmod (frequency:10)

   She too don get belle.  — (JOS_26_Small-Talk_DG__100, She also is pregnant ?)

   She too no get experience.  — (KAD_13_Entering-University_MG__56, She also lacks experience.)

4. cc (frequency:6)

   Because she… ,  — (LAG_36_Marriage_DG__52, Because she...)

   And sh, s~, she dey do hair very well because her hand no dey pain.  — (LAG_01_Hairdressing_M__8, And sh... s... she makes hair very well, because her hands are not painful.)

5. dep (frequency:5)

   Di woman say she no, she no know o, na so de tell am.  — (ONI_15_Gossiping_DG__62, The woman said she does not, she does not know o. That's how they told her.)

   She no, she dey comot cross road meh she go buy di thing.  — (JOS_36_People-Suffering_M__6, She was not... she was leaving to cross the road to go and buy the thing.)

6. nmod:emph (frequency:4)

   She add say she herself don tire to dey always wear wig.  — (bbc__89245, __no translation__)

   She b~, she just talk dat one out of play, and I con take am serious.  — (NST_cleaned__10045, __no translation__)

7. discourse (frequency:3)

   Ehn... she, mstchew, dey talk am.  — (ONI_27_A-Hotelier-Interview_MG__94, Uh... she mstchew, talks about it.)

   She say she no, she like di nail, na friendship for dat long one.  — (NST_cleaned__42461, __no translation__)

8. case (frequency:2)

   If she no sell, if she, if she,…  — (NST_cleaned__21496, __no translation__)

   No I go dey wash am by myself if she go.  — (KAD_29_Boys-Talk_DG__187, No, I'll wash it myself if she goes.)

9. nmod (frequency:2)

   my mama own sef, e no even pain me because dat one, she she she sick for long time.  — (NST_cleaned__33302, __no translation__)

   Di oga of Lami talk say na 10 years old wen she herself start to work for di abattoir.  — (bbc__36695, __no translation__)

10. amod-conj (frequency:2)

    She plus her her boyfriend and one of her fellow tenant later come hide go bury di dead bodi.  — (bbc__30522, __no translation__)

    Infact, since 2012, na only she and Adele don use seven days sell one million copies of any album.  — (bbc__59972, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• her 0.70 5282, i 0.62 22807, you 0.55 28881, woman 0.54 2792, dem 0.53 66999, him 0.52 582, couple 0.52 159, herself 0.51 98, landlord 0.50 97

Antonyms

• her 0.70 5282, i 0.62 22807, you 0.55 28881, woman 0.54 2792, dem 0.53 66999, him 0.52 582, couple 0.52 159, herself 0.51 98, landlord 0.50 97

Translations

• English: no definition