take

Naija

Etymology

From English take

Pronunciation

• têk

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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

Aux

• Wetin dey show manner.

1. Na so dem take finish the house o.  — (NSC_Tella_2021, That's how they finished the building.)
2. Dat na wetin de take do am.  — (NSC_Tella_2021, That's what they use to do it.)

Synonmys

• use

Translation

• English: use

Transitive Verb

• Make a person collect something wey another person give you.

1. Take your size.  — (WAZP_08_Your-Heart-Dey-Heavy_M__83, Take your size.)
2. Take your banga soup wey be sey still light for inside pot.  — (NST_cleaned__35942, Take the palm fruit that is still light in the pot.)

• Make a person accept something wey another person give am.

1. na im dose wey dey work for am go take.  — (deuber__2614, It is what those who work for him will accept.)
2. Come sofri tell am sey: “Just take am.”  — (jw__35553, Then, he softly told him that, " Just accept it.)

• Make person pose for photo.

Dem dey take foto  — (NSC_Ajede_2020, They are snapping pictures.)

Intransitive Verb

• Make person dey drink or smoke someting.

1. No dey smoke or take wetin fit put your life for danger  — (jw__27102, Don't be smoking or drinking anything that will put your life in danger.)
2. Dey sip Krest take cause of my belle.  — (ENU_37_Dmoris-Restaurant_MG__105, I was drinking Krest because of my stomach.)

Synonyms

• collect, accept

Translations

• English: take, accept, drink.