stay

Naija

Etymology

From English stay

Pronunciation

• stéɪ̀

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 73
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 180
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1460
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 262

Noun

• Na like ogbonge permission make person live for somewhere.

1. Di Court of Appeal on 4th February give wetin dem call stay of execution ontop di judgement of di Federal High Court .  — (bbc__31071, It is the court of appeal on 4th February gave what they called a sustenance of execution on the judgement of the Federal High Court.)
2. To take extend ein stay for Udinese football club.  — (ja102__3903, To use to extend his contract with Udinese football club.)
3. Now, di court dey consider application of stay of execution.  — (bbc__75703, Now, the court is considering an application of sustenance of execution.)

Translations

• English: to live in a place.

Intransitive Verb

• Make person sit back for a place

1. Abuja na very good place to stay.  — (ABJ_NOU_02_Gimba-Lifestory_MG__16, Abuja is a very good place to stay.)
2. Sey me, I must stay.  — (ABJ_GWA_10_Steven-Lifestory_MG__203, That me, I had to stay.)

Transitive Verb

1. Na im dey help me stay your side.  — (jw__25684, __no translation__)
2. but if God say na im go stay dere.  — (deuber__4517, __no translation__)
3. We promise to stay im side.  — (jw__40251, __no translation__)

Serial Verb

1. Stay dey beg.  — (ONI_16_Thief_DG__179, He is there begging.)
2. As I come back from school, stay small, sleep.  — (NST_cleaned__42946, As I returned from school, I waited a little and sleep.)
3. Sey make I con follow am go dey stay Lagos.  — (IBA_01_Fola-Lifestory_MG__34, She said I should come with her to stay in Lagos.)

Synonyms

• live

Antonyms

• comot, leave

Translations

• English: to live in a place.