still

Naija

Alternative forms

• now 0.56 8252, always 0.55 1011, sometimes 0.53 599, con 0.48 3175, wetin 0.47 19897, everybody 0.46 1105, no 0.46 46612, really 0.46 1685, patient 0.46 217

Etymology

Borrowed from English still

Pronunciation

• stɪl

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 177
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 89
• Frequency in raw corpus: 6089
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 70

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Adverb

still: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:6109)

   Still See  — (jw__33448, __no translation__)

   still be.  — (jw__36966, __no translation__)

2. dep (frequency:2)

   Still on still, people still dey do good,  — (NST_cleaned__6057, __no translation__)

   Still on still, Maryland still dey, GRA still dey, ehn VWG dey, Shogunle, Ladipo, Alasia, Oshodi, we get Mushin.  — (LAG_18_Lagos-Districts_M__18, Still, Maryland still exists; GRA still exists; ehn VWG exists; Shogunle, Ladipo, Alasia, Oshodi, we have Mushin.)

3. conj (frequency:2)

   And still, on still page eight, oga madam, Aisha Buhari as she return like dis, she talk sey oh she tank God ehn sey oga Osibanjo dey very, very loyal to her husband.  — (WAZA_04_Press-Review_DG__87, And still on page eight, Aisha Buhari as she returned, she said, oh, she thanks God eh, that mister Osibanjo is very loyal to her husband.)

   And still, on still for inside page seven, Federal Government dey for inside di process of to take recover one point forty two billion dollars money wey be sey eh people thief from government wey de still dey call looted funds,  — (WAZA_04_Press-Review_DG__53, And still on that, in page seven, Federal Government are in the process of recovering one point forty two billion dollars that eh people stole from the government which they call looted funds.)

Synonyms

• now 0.56 8252, always 0.55 1011, sometimes 0.53 599, con 0.48 3175, wetin 0.47 19897, everybody 0.46 1105, no 0.46 46612, really 0.46 1685, patient 0.46 217

Antonyms

• now 0.56 8252, always 0.55 1011, sometimes 0.53 599, con 0.48 3175, wetin 0.47 19897, everybody 0.46 1105, no 0.46 46612, really 0.46 1685, patient 0.46 217

Translations

• English: no definition