try

Naija

Alternative forms

• ready 0.60 1219, continue 0.58 1473, stop 0.58 2535, want 0.57 5324, struggle 0.56 300, plan 0.55 1731, need 0.55 3037, effort 0.53 77, listen 0.49 505

Etymology

Borrowed from English try

Pronunciation

• traɪ

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 120
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 118
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2731
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 149

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Verb

try: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:41)

   Try!  — (WAZL_09_Talk-Show-Catman_DG__17, Try !)

   ah you try you try  — (deuber__5067, __no translation__)

2. ccomp (frequency:21)

   Try dey teach dem,  — (jw__38288, __no translation__)

   Try dey do all your best  — (jw__38285, __no translation__)

3. obj (frequency:18)

   Try wetin?  — (JOS_31_Psqaure-And-Efe_DG__69, Try what ?)

   You wan try am?  — (bbc__101882, __no translation__)

4. mark-obj (frequency:14)

   We have to try our best  — (NST_cleaned__3464, __no translation__)

   Kai you no need to try di kind jamz wey dey dere!  — (KAD_13_Entering-University_MG__41, Man, you don't need to try the kind of things there!)

5. aux (frequency:8)

   So come twenty nineteen, de say governor dey try,  — (NST_cleaned__21092, __no translation__)

   dough we dey talk say okay Obasanjo dey try dey try.  — (deuber__6349, __no translation__)

6. nsubj (frequency:6)

   E try.  — (ENU_19_Football-Fans-Discussion_DG__214, He is doing his best.)

   I try.  — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__22, I have reduced the price.)

7. advmod (frequency:5)

   Try now!  — (KAD_04_Indian-Movies_DG__98, Try now !)

   Try now.  — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__26, Make an effort!)

8. obl:arg (frequency:5)

   Try for wetin?  — (JOS_32_School-And-Party-Politics_DG__58, Try for what ?)

   So if you want try to dat kind tin, you fit start like dat,  — (IBA_17_Julie-And-Danile_DG__179, So, if you want to try to... that sort of thing, you can start that way.)

9. mark (frequency:4)

   We gas to try, Conte talk.  — (bbc__6954, __no translation__)

   Maybe one day, we go get better group wey go try.  — (JOS_31_Psqaure-And-Efe_DG__56, Maybe one day, we will get a better group that will try.)

10. aux-mark (frequency:4)

    Some states wey dey try.  — (bbc__91593, __no translation__)

    Maybe one day, we go get better group wey go try.  — (NST_cleaned__18388, __no translation__)

11. conj (frequency:3)

    Na something wey I wan try and I dey very serious.  — (bbc__5232, __no translation__)

    Just try, try, just try let's, just let's meet in my place.  — (NST_cleaned__3468, __no translation__)

12. xcomp (frequency:2)

    So make we as a youth try to build up oursef.  — (JOS_14_Chibozor-View-About-Nigeria_MG__55, So as youths let's try to build ourselves up.)

    But, make we s-... try our best, try build up oursef to become youth because if (like me) dey talk never comot sey I wan con-... contest for gover-... governor now, una go tell me sey I be young man. (JOS_14_Chibozor-View-About-Nigeria_MG__46, But, we s-... try our best, try to build ourselves up to become youths because if  — (like me) talk has never come out that I want to ru-... run for gover-... governorship now, you will tell me that I am a young man.)

13. obl:mod (frequency:2)

    Wetin I wan try t~, wetin I wan try talk be sey you no dey hear, or you dey hear, or is not sey…  — (BEN_15a_Theology-Demons_DG__109, What I am trying t-... what I am trying to say is that you don't hear... or you hear... or it's not that...)

    Na up to 1,670 Boko Haram suspects Nigeria wan try in di next few weeks, and 5,000 people after that one.  — (bbc__72159, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• ready 0.60 1219, continue 0.58 1473, stop 0.58 2535, want 0.57 5324, struggle 0.56 300, plan 0.55 1731, need 0.55 3037, effort 0.53 77, listen 0.49 505

Antonyms

• ready 0.60 1219, continue 0.58 1473, stop 0.58 2535, want 0.57 5324, struggle 0.56 300, plan 0.55 1731, need 0.55 3037, effort 0.53 77, listen 0.49 505

Translations

• English: no definition