small
Naija
Etymology
From English: small
Pronunciation
- smɔl
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 212
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 77
- Frequency in raw corpus: 2793
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 142
Adjective
Sey someting no plenty.
- Na small food I bring come. — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, I came with a small quantity of food.)
- Small kero remain inside stove. — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, There is a small quantity of kerosene inside the stove.)
Sey someting no big.
- So, Bethel come too small. — (jw__3194, Bethel became too small.)
- You go make sure sey you cut am small, small inside. — (NST_cleaned__6555, Endeavor to cut it into tiny pieces inside.)
- Pikin wey never grow.
- O boy, you small dat time, you still dey follow babe, — (NST_cleaned__21847, Oh boy! you were still young at that time, still going after young girls.)
- Things wey I learn from small dey help me make I no fear. — (jw__36690, What I learned from childhood,has helped me in overcoming my fears.)
- Small girl! — (WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__78, Little girl !)
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Translations
- English: small, little, young