small

Naija

Alternative forms

• small-small 0.51 146, water 0.47 1456, teeth 0.46 77, soup 0.46 229, fine 0.46 836, belle 0.45 914, boy 0.45 838, girl 0.44 1023, just 0.44 5577

Etymology

Borrowed from English small

Pronunciation

• smɔl

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 212
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 77
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2793
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 142

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Adjective

small: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:2363)

   Small one.  — (WAZL_15_MC-Abi_MG__118, A small one.)

   Small girl!  — (WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__78, Little girl !)

2. amod (frequency:32)

   Small, small.  — (NST_cleaned__15097, __no translation__)

   Na small, small.  — (NST_cleaned__20576, __no translation__)

3. advmod (frequency:30)

   So, Bethel come too small.  — (jw__3194, __no translation__)

   Na since wey I dey very small.  — (JOS_41_Buying-Drinks_DG__128, It was since I was very small.)

4. conj (frequency:22)

   ...small or big chops...  — (bbc__9578, __no translation__)

   You go make sure sey you cut am small, small inside.  — (NST_cleaned__6555, __no translation__)

5. case (frequency:18)

   So de start from small.  — (WAZL_08_Edewor-Lifestory_MG__8, So they started from when they were little.)

   Things wey I learn from small dey help me make I no fear.  — (jw__36690, __no translation__)

6. cc (frequency:15)

   Cartoon na ogbonge wey to reach pipo weda big or small  — (bbc__24862, __no translation__)

   People dey look for small r small change wey be sey dey go go… ,  — (NST_cleaned__18590, __no translation__)

7. obl:mod (frequency:11)

   Just above di knee small like dis.  — (JOS_10_Mothers-Against-Mini-Skirts_DG__84, Just above the knee a bit like this.)

   O boy, you small dat time, you still dey follow babe,  — (NST_cleaned__21847, __no translation__)

8. mark (frequency:8)

   The one wey small pass get ten lines.  — (katakata__1089, __no translation__)

   According to one of di president of PETA wey be Ingrid Newkirk, donkeys wey small well-well too no dey escape dis kain killing.  — (bbc__12114, __no translation__)

9. advcl (frequency:7)

   Na small remain, e for comot Alisson head.  — (bbc__46419, __no translation__)

   The people wey dey play drum stop small to rest before the real match start.  — (katakata__791, __no translation__)

10. nsubj (frequency:7)

    My own brain small.  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__45, My own brain is shallow.)

    My own brain small?  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__43, My own brain is shallow ?)

11. det (frequency:5)

    Se, see di small, small…  — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__13, Se...see this small small...)

    Maybe you, ehen maybe you go come dey do some small, small work for me for house like dat.  — (ABJ_GWA_13_Small-Jobs_DG__67, Maybe you will come to do some little works for me at home.)

12. appos (frequency:4)

    Na di fry one if de con make am small, small, small, small.  — (NST_cleaned__13729, __no translation__)

    But di man dey try, e dey do am small, small, small, small,  — (NST_cleaned__29087, __no translation__)

13. dep (frequency:2)

    Eh ICRC motor sef go just still maneuver small, small, small,  — (NST_cleaned__26437, __no translation__)

    Small small the rain come dey reduce and e no dey fall always and ground with sky separate again as them suppose.  — (katakata__646, __no translation__)

14. cop (frequency:2)

    Na small, small. (JOS_03_Red-Hair-Facebook_DG__170, It's small small.  — (It's little by little).)

    Eh oga, you know sey people, dem plenty for Jerusalem no, no be small.  — (IBA_42_Barrabas_DG__20, uhn boss, you know that people, there are many people in Jerusalem, not a few.)

15. obj (frequency:2)

    So for this okuba wey you dey talk now, de no fit cut di thing small for us?  — (LAG_26_Selling-Drinks_DG__50, So in this hotel where you are talking to me right now, they cannot cut down on the price ?)

    Because I know sey villages, even dough witout ehn ehn ehn fertilizer, people fit try o, farm like dat small, small.  — (JOS_37_Government-Agric-And-Women_M__44, Because I know that in villages, even though without ehn, ehn, ehn fertilizer, people can try to farm like that little by little.)

16. cc-nsubj (frequency:2)

    Jesus pity for dem and e tell im disciples sey: “True true, things to harvest plenty, but the workers small.  — (jw__2575, __no translation__)

    The brother talk sey: “I first dey fear sey we no go fit do am because e never too tey wey I marry, and our house small.  — (jw__27873, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• small-small 0.51 146, water 0.47 1456, teeth 0.46 77, soup 0.46 229, fine 0.46 836, belle 0.45 914, boy 0.45 838, girl 0.44 1023, just 0.44 5577

Antonyms

• small-small 0.51 146, water 0.47 1456, teeth 0.46 77, soup 0.46 229, fine 0.46 836, belle 0.45 914, boy 0.45 838, girl 0.44 1023, just 0.44 5577

Translations

• English: no definition