very

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Naija

Alternative forms

  • sha 0.59 392, weather 0.54 161, well-well 0.52 994, too 0.48 3267, well- 0.47 7, always 0.45 1011, well 0.45 6982, proud 0.44 86, sometimes 0.44 599

Etymology

Borrowed from English very

Pronunciation

  • ˈvɛri

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 169
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 90
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 1395
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 273

The word is used more orally than in written texts.


Adverb

very: no definition -- Definition in Naija?


  1. - (frequency:1403)
    Very good.  — (JOS_29_He-Loves-French_DG__122, Very good.)
    Very busy.  — (BEN_28_Radio-Drama-Flirting_DG__207, Very busy.)
  2. compound:redup (frequency:30)
    Very, very cheap.  — (JOS_19_Bukuru_MG__52, Really, really cheap.)
    E dey very, very important.  — (WAZA_08_Body-Matter_MG__10, It's really very important.)
  3. advmod (frequency:16)
    de are very, very...  — (NST_cleaned__33758, __no translation__)
    dey very very important hmm  — (deuber__192, __no translation__)
  4. det (frequency:2)
    see you indeed, you are a very...  — (NST_cleaned__42032, __no translation__)
    Clearing the air for dose of you wey dey out dere, wey no really no know wetin dey happen dere, the state is a very… ,  — (JOS_17_Jos-And-Plateau-State_M__48, Clearing the air for those of you out there who really don't know what is happening there. This state is a very...)
  5. case (frequency:2)
    Make una hear every, every as I roger come knock una for dis very o'clock.  — (WAZL_12_Chibok-Girls_M__4, You all should listen to everything. As I am here I am here to give you at this very hour.)
    So na why I dey tell una una continue learn una handwork, do am well, well because anything wey you do wey, when you dey willing to do am, you do am very well, you go dey happy.  — (JOS_15_Graduate-Wahala_M__65, so that is why I have been telling you that you should continue to learn your handwork,)

Derived forms

Synonyms

  • sha 0.59 392, weather 0.54 161, well-well 0.52 994, too 0.48 3267, well- 0.47 7, always 0.45 1011, well 0.45 6982, proud 0.44 86, sometimes 0.44 599

Antonyms

  • sha 0.59 392, weather 0.54 161, well-well 0.52 994, too 0.48 3267, well- 0.47 7, always 0.45 1011, well 0.45 6982, proud 0.44 86, sometimes 0.44 599

Translations

  • English: no definition