us

Naija

Alternative forms

• we 0.55 25536, them 0.52 973, ourself 0.49 247, am 0.49 25602, elders 0.48 396, brothers 0.48 1147, theirself 0.47 250, our 0.47 5912, jehovah 0.46 9478

Etymology

Borrowed from English us

Pronunciation

• ˈjuˈɛs

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 259
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 63
• Frequency in raw corpus: 6714
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 63

The word is used equally in written texts and orally.

Pronoun

us: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:5265)

   Help us.  — (ABJ_GWA_11_Hungry-No-Go-Kill-Us_DG__214, Help us. �)

   Help us!  — (ONI_25_Nigeria-Don-Wowo_DG__71, help us)

2. case (frequency:1271)

   All of us don…  — (ABJ_GWA_13_Small-Jobs_DG__38, All of us have ...)

   No be all of us.  — (IBA_37_Buhari-Returns_DG__147, Wasn't it all of us...)

3. case-conj (frequency:11)

   Na so e still be with us and Jehovah.  — (jw__11757, __no translation__)

   E go know wetin God get for mind for us and for this earth.  — (jw__4045, __no translation__)

4. amod (frequency:8)

   No be only us dey endure.  — (jw__27019, __no translation__)

   I even think sey na only us,  — (NST_cleaned__15779, __no translation__)

5. case-ccomp (frequency:7)

   Instead, na chance for us to take show sey we support the way God dey rule.  — (jw__21354, __no translation__)

   But as time dey go, e go easy for us to dey do and dey think the kind thing wey Jehovah like.— Ps.  — (jw__31279, __no translation__)

6. case-nmod (frequency:5)

   Sey everyday, dis, as we dey waka, everyday, God just dey dere for us kampe,  — (KAD_23_Christians-In-Kaduna_DG__153, That everyday, this... as we are walking everyday, God is just there for us, steadfastly.)

   For us as goment and as pipo, we go continue to support free and fair elections  — (bbc__76995, __no translation__)

7. case-dep (frequency:4)

   You don hear sey dose of us doing IT in NAFDAC, that NAFDAC have gone for strike, and they have suspended our IT.  — (KAD_01_Students-Life_DG__116, you have heard that those of us doing IT in NAFDAC, that NAFDAC have gone on strike. And they have suspended our IT.)

   President Macky Sall tok say Senegal and im young pipo dey proud of di honour you don put on top us, by giving our kontri di work to organise di Youth Olympic Games 2022.  — (bbc__83397, __no translation__)

8. obj (frequency:3)

   Until God for better our bread, na all of us go just comot.  — (NST_cleaned__16259, __no translation__)

   Dem stop the bad things wey dem dey do before and God come ‘wash dem clean.’ Many of us stop to do the bad things wey we dey do before, so that Jehovah go happy with us.  — (jw__26072, __no translation__)

9. advmod (frequency:3)

   Cell, na im be di smallest unit, di smallest size of di human body, na im make all of us.  — (WAZL_06_Na-Your-Health_DG__43, Cell is the smallest unit, the smallest size of the human body, we are made up of it.)

   Con say toh moh we just bring one thousand first because of now, all of us, na student we be.  — (KAD_24_Biography_M__44, now said okay we should just bring one thousand first, because all of us are students.)

10. case-cc (frequency:2)

    So di next option now is either for us to find way buy generator, follow keep for di back.  — (NST_cleaned__708, __no translation__)

    Adejuwon Soyinka, di BBC Pidgin Editor wey bi di undercover reporter for di investigative report, tok say, we dey very excited as we hear dis news and for us for BBC Pidgin, dis one show di kain work wey we dey do.  — (bbc__12466, __no translation__)

11. appos-case (frequency:2)

    So di ting be sey many of us, Nigerians don suffer to make dis country go where e go.  — (ABJ_INF_12_Evictions_MG__58, So, the thing is, many of us Nigerians have suffered to bring this country to where it is.)

    But you see some of us, women, hm na dat time, we go talk sey we get headache, we no well, we do dis, we do dat.  — (IBA_03_Womanisers_MG__90, But you see, some women, uh... there is that time when we say we have a headache, we are not well, we did this, we did that.)

Derived forms

• us Buhari

1. If we no kill corruption, corruption go destroy us - Buhari  — (bbc__57800, __no translation__)

   If we no kill corruption, corruption go destroy us - Buhari Who wan collect Osinbajo post for Buhari hand Nigeria security votes na 'wayo moni'  — (bbc__57803, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• we 0.55 25536, them 0.52 973, ourself 0.49 247, am 0.49 25602, elders 0.48 396, brothers 0.48 1147, theirself 0.47 250, our 0.47 5912, jehovah 0.46 9478

Antonyms

• we 0.55 25536, them 0.52 973, ourself 0.49 247, am 0.49 25602, elders 0.48 396, brothers 0.48 1147, theirself 0.47 250, our 0.47 5912, jehovah 0.46 9478

Translations

• English: no definition