shift

Naija

Etymology

From English: shift

Pronunciation

• ʃîft

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 101
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2077

Noun

Na di work wey person dey do wey dey change time.

• I dey enjoy my shift.  — (KAD_07_Receptionists_DG__19, I am enjoying my shift.)
• E work na shift yesterday and we believe say e wear im uniform.  — (bbc__2573, He was on shift yesterday at work and we believe he wore his uniform.)

Translations

• English: shift

Verb

Transitive

1. Make dem move di date of someting go front or back.

   • Dem shift di date wey dem go talk wheder di person go go jail or e no go go.  — ( The date for the trial was postponed.)

   • Dem don shift di election wey dem bin plan to do on Sunday 23 December, go Sunday 30 December.  — (bbc__28994, The election scheduled for Sunday 23rd of December, has been postpone to Sunday 30th of December.)

2. Make person move from one place to anoder place.

   • No shift because if you shift, I go faint.  — (NST_cleaned__5578, Do not move because if you do, I will faint.)

Intrasitive

• I just fall for ground faint if you shift.  — (ENU_29_Personality-Show-On-Computer_DG__113, I'll fall to the ground and faint if you move.)
• Shift comot for my side.  — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, Move away from my side.y)

Translations

• English: postponed, move