suffer

Naija

Alternative forms

• sofa

Etymology

From English suffer.

Pronunciation

• sófà

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 36
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 301
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1145
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 323

Noun

Na sey someting no balance for person or someting life or sey someting dey hard for am.

• Di suffer don too much well, well.  — (ONI_23_Things-Don-Cost_DG__131, The suffering is unbearable.)
• People wey survive ebola for Sierra Leone don dey suffer new suffer, dem call am human rights violation.  — (bbc__81025, Survivors of ebola in Sierra Leone are now plagued by another problem known as human rights violation.)
• From that time, the kind suffer wey we dey suffer now don pass wetin we fit use mouth talk.  — (jw__20686, From that point on, we experienced suffering that is beyond describing.)

Related forms

• suffer suffer

Synonyms

• menstruate

Antonyms

• enjoy

Translations

• English: suffering

Verb

suffer: abuse, maltreat -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Dem no go torture or suffer any pikin.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:72)

   Na im go comot suffer.  — (jw__25694, __no translation__)

   We dey here dey suffer.  — (ONI_01_Salary-Wahala_M__62, We are here suffering)

3. nsubj (frequency:17)

   Upon wetin Job suffer, e no leave God.  — (jw__41397, __no translation__)

   Sometimes, e fit remember wetin e suffer.  — (jw__9801, __no translation__)

4. aux-obj (frequency:14)

   Come suffer di way me I dey suffer.  — (NST_cleaned__14046, __no translation__)

   na di consumers na dem dey suffer dis thing  — (deuber__1303, __no translation__)

5. aux (frequency:13)

   We dey here dey suffer.  — (NST_cleaned__22197, __no translation__)

   I go dey here dey suffer.  — (NST_cleaned__6839, __no translation__)

6. obj (frequency:13)

   Jehovah allow Satan suffer Job.  — (jw__3962, __no translation__)

   Instead, Jehovah let Satan suffer Job.  — (jw__41828, __no translation__)

7. mark (frequency:13)

   Life wey suffer no dey.  — (jw__22229, __no translation__)

   Carry your pole of suffer  — (jw__5913, __no translation__)

8. obl:arg (frequency:12)

   This one come make dem suffer for many years.  — (jw__17404, __no translation__)

   I no know sey na double suffer, I go go suffer for Lagos.  — (IBA_01_Fola-Lifestory_MG__38, I didn't know the hardship would be twice as bad in Lagos.)

9. advcl (frequency:7)

   Why suffer suffer full this world?  — (jw__46800, __no translation__)

   Bible talk about how Jesus take suffer before e die.  — (jw__4665, __no translation__)

10. cc (frequency:6)

    Fear and cry cry and suffer go comot.  — (jw__10553, __no translation__)

    Na im make wahala, pain and suffer suffer full this world.  — (jw__552, __no translation__)

11. conj (frequency:6)

    Anyone wey e choose fit make am suffer or enjoy life.  — (jw__5869, __no translation__)

    Na wetin Adam do dey make us suffer and die today.— Read Genesis 3: 1-6, 19 .  — (jw__26629, __no translation__)

12. cc-obj (frequency:6)

    E sey: ‘Make una happy even when people curse una and suffer una.  — (jw__3593, __no translation__)

    ‘People go catch una and suffer una, dem go carry una go synagogue and dem go put una for prison.  — (jw__49272, __no translation__)

13. det (frequency:4)

    Which time this suffer suffer go end?  — (jw__45940, __no translation__)

    De reasons, bishops say na poor pipo weh de no fit send dia pikin dem for Francophone regions di suffer.  — (bbc__27652, __no translation__)

14. ccomp (frequency:3)

    God dey make us suffer wen we sin.  — (bbc__3036, __no translation__)

    But for me, me, I wan suffer meh I get my own.  — (JOS_05_Buhari-Government_M__25, But for me, I, I want to suffer so that I will get mine.)

15. case (frequency:2)

    Why Jehovah never still do something about all this suffer suffer?  — (jw__46275, __no translation__)

    Why many people dey blame God for the suffer suffer wey dey this world?  — (jw__46751, __no translation__)

16. det-obj (frequency:2)

    Pikin dem weh deh di go school di suffer plenti stigma, as deh di call dem 'Bamenda' and deh de feel laik some second class pipo.  — (bbc__81334, __no translation__)

    But no be only Daniel di suffer dis kain tin, e reach about 500,000 pipo wey dey suffer spinal cord injury for di world and di case for Nigeria dey worse because medical care dey very cost.  — (bbc__23114, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• sick 0.65 372, sickness 0.61 386, affect 0.61 1028, worry 0.61 960, die 0.60 4628, destroy 0.58 474, bear 0.58 209, treat 0.58 759, survive 0.57 296

Antonyms

• sick 0.65 372, sickness 0.61 386, affect 0.61 1028, worry 0.61 960, die 0.60 4628, destroy 0.58 474, bear 0.58 209, treat 0.58 759, survive 0.57 296

Translations

• English: abuse, maltreat