take
Naija
Etymology
Borrowed from English take
Pronunciation
- tek
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 330
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 55
- Frequency in raw corpus: 9834
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 42
Usage
Definition
Sey person or ting collect something.
Verb
- to collect something wey another person give you
- 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 is nothing left on my body to take... ...)
- 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__)
- to accept something wey another person give you
- na im dose wey dey work for am go take. — (deuber__2614, __It is what those who work for him will accept__)
- Come sofri tell am sey: “Just take am.” — (jw__35553, __Then, he softly told him that, " Just accept it"__)
- 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 accept encouragement.)
- snap photo
- Dey take foto — (bbc__30241, __Snapping picture__)
- drink something
- 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__)
- Dey sip Krest take cause of my belle. — (ENU_37_Dmoris-Restaurant_MG__105, I was drinking Krest because of my stomach.)
- decide
- Bros sef no surprise for dis kain decision weh committee wan take... — (bbc__20740, __Brother also, was not surprised at this kind of decision which the committee wants to take...__)
- 'We go talk about di kind action we wan take for di fight against IS, im talk. — (bbc__8566, __"We will talk about the kind of decision we want to decide on the fight against IS", he said.__)
Derived forms
take off
Synonyms
- collect, accept
Antonyms
Translations
- English: take, accept, drink
Aux
take
- Na so dem take finish the house o — ( That's how they finished the building )