three

Naija

Etymology

Borrowed from English three

Pronunciation

• tri

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 96
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 141
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2477
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 165

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Numeral

three: no definition, three.CARD -- Di numba wey dey after two and tanda before four.

1. I go hospital almost three times.  — (LAG_17_Food-On-Campus_DG__25, I went to the hospital almost three times.)

2. cc (frequency:35)

   We con get like two to three university join.  — (KAD_27_Boys-Brigade-Talk_M__59, We then have like two to three universities together.)

Noun

1. Den di three na boys.  — (ABJ_NOU_02_Gimba-Lifestory_MG__4, Then the other three are boys.)

   All the three don deny bribery.  — (brila__758, __no translation__)

Translations

• English: three.CARD - A numerical value after two and before four