Difference between revisions of "sotay"
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Revision as of 13:40, 23 August 2020
Naija
Alternative forms
- sotey 0.80 271, well-well 0.64 994, sef 0.56 1597, when 0.55 7140, done 0.53 225, muscle 0.50 47, after 0.49 4737, wen 0.46 4261, kakaraka 0.46 24
Etymology
Borrowed from English sotay
Pronunciation
- sóté
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 9
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 769
- Frequency in raw corpus: 392
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 796
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Adverb
sotay: till, until -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- we wait wait wait sotay rain con start to dey fall. — no translation
- - (frequency:13)
- Sotay she dey slap her. — (NST_cleaned__21451, __no translation__)
- Sotay we come plenty o. — (NST_cleaned__38885, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- sotey 0.80 271, well-well 0.64 994, sef 0.56 1597, when 0.55 7140, done 0.53 225, muscle 0.50 47, after 0.49 4737, wen 0.46 4261, kakaraka 0.46 24
Antonyms
- sotey 0.80 271, well-well 0.64 994, sef 0.56 1597, when 0.55 7140, done 0.53 225, muscle 0.50 47, after 0.49 4737, wen 0.46 4261, kakaraka 0.46 24
Translations
- English: till, until
Subordinating Conjunction
sotay: no definition, such_that -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:405)
- I sotay like… — (NST_cleaned__404, __no translation__)
- Sotay she dey slap her. — (JOS_09_Wife-And-Mother-In-Law_M__2, To the extent that she slapped her.)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- sotey 0.80 271, well-well 0.64 994, sef 0.56 1597, when 0.55 7140, done 0.53 225, muscle 0.50 47, after 0.49 4737, wen 0.46 4261, kakaraka 0.46 24
Antonyms
- sotey 0.80 271, well-well 0.64 994, sef 0.56 1597, when 0.55 7140, done 0.53 225, muscle 0.50 47, after 0.49 4737, wen 0.46 4261, kakaraka 0.46 24
Translations
- English: no definition, such_that