tell

Naija

Etymology

From English tell

Pronunciation

• tɛl

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 405
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 47
• Frequency in raw corpus: 8538
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 45

Verb

• Make person yarn give somebody.

1. E tell am.  — (IBA_31_Lens-Sermon_MG__61, He told him.)

   Tell am sey e dey leak.  — (BEN_36_Clever-Girl_MG__71, Tell him that it's leaking.)

Intransitive Verb

1. I no wan tell.  — (KAD_24_Biography_M__134, I don't want to tell...)

   Why I no go go tell?  — (KAD_17_Turkeys_MG__106, Why won't I report it?)

Serial Verb

1. So dat time I no w~, I no sabi tell di Pidgin as e be.  — (NST_cleaned__145, So that time I don't w-, I don't know how to qualify Pidgin then.)
2. My pile con call tell dem sey I no dey .  — (NSC_Tella_2021, My father then called and told them that I was not around.)

Synonyms

• yarn, say, talk

Antonyms

• silent

Translations

• English: to talk.