take

Naija

Etymology

Borrowed from English take

Pronunciation

• teɪk

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 330
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 55
• Frequency in raw corpus: 9834
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 42

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Verb

take: collect something, accept something, snap picture, drink something

1. collect

   Take your size.  — (WAZP_08_Your-Heart-Dey-Heavy_M__83, Take your size.)

   Nothing remain for my body to take,  — (ABJ_INF_04_First-Time-In-Abuja_M__40, There was nothing left on me...)

   Take your banga soup wey be sey still light for inside pot.  — (NST_cleaned__35942, __no translation__)

2. accept

   na im dose wey dey work for am go take.  — (deuber__2614, __no translation__)

   Come sofri tell am sey: “Just take am.”  — (jw__35553, __no translation__)

   And me, I don't like to take encouragement.  — (ONI_02_I-Like-My-Girlfriend-So-Much_M__11, And I, I don't like to take encouragement.)

3. take photo

   Dey take foto  — (bbc__30241, __no translation__)

   Eh take, okay make we… ,  — (NST_cleaned__2020, __no translation__)

4. drink something

   No dey smoke or take wetin fit put your life for danger  — (jw__27102, __no translation__)

   Dey sip Krest take cause of my belle.  — (ENU_37_Dmoris-Restaurant_MG__105, I was sipping Krest because of my stomach.)

5. decide

   Broos sef no surprise for dis kain decision weh committee wan take and yi di wait mek deh notify yi.  — (bbc__20740, __no translation__)

   'We go talk about di kind action we wan take for di fight against IS, im talk.  — (bbc__8566, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• collect, accept

Antonyms

• manage 0.43 451, much 0.40 801, follo-follo 0.39 5, use 0.37 8141, instead 0.36 701, intensive 0.36 13, try 0.36 3008, fit 0.35 19431, protect 0.34 727

Translations

• English: take, accept, drink