wake
Naija
Etymology
From: English wake
Pronunciation
- wêk
Verb
- Make person get up from sleep.
- Dem use vex take play di match. — (They played the match a lot of intensity.)
- E no get how di sleep deep, or how di dream be eh, you go must wake up. — (NST_cleaned__39211, It doesn’t matter how deep your sleep is, or what you were dreaming about, you must wake up.)
- Her own na to wake up, baff dey go school. — (NST_cleaned__21573, All she does is to wake up, take her bath and go to school.)
- Make person sense open or make person try pass as e dey do before.
- Di village people don wake up now. Deir eyes don open so tey garri cheap again. — (NST_cleaned__21573, The village people are now awake. Their eyes are open so much that garri is no longer cheap.)
- Tell Janet make she wake up quick or express go pass am. — (Tell Janet to meet up quickly or she’ll miss the opportunity.)
- When person body ready for nack
- If you touch me like dat again, you go wake up my down below o. — (I will be aroused if you touch me like that again.)
- Men dey like nack woman for morning because na dat time deir body go don wake well. — (Men like to have sex early in the morning because that’s when they are very aroused.)
- Make person wey die come back, dey alive.
- Our friend don go sleep, but I want travel go there, go wake am.— JOHN 11:11. — (jw__49800, Our friend is dead but I want to go and bring him back to life.)
- Dem rush di mama go hospital for treatment and right now doctors dey battle to wake her because she dey unconscious. — (bbc__82439, They took mother to the hospital for treatment and right now the doctors are trying to resuscitate her because she is unconscious.)
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Translations
- English: wake up from sleep, regain consciousness.