wake

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Naija

Etymology

From: English wake

Pronunciation

  • wêk

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 30
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 360
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 228
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1207

Verb

  1. Na make person stop to dey sleep.
    • I dey like sleep till 8am for morning before I wake up.  — (NSC_Legbeti. I like getting up late from bed.)
    • e no get how di sleep deep, or how di dream be eh, you go must wake up.  — (NST_cleaned__39211. Regardless of how deep the sleep or dream may be, one wake eventually.)
    Her own na to wake up, baff dey go school.  — (NST_cleaned__21573. She only wakes, takes her bath and run off to school.)
  2. Na make person sense open and realise someting.
    • If you no know im, you need to wake up o ehn?  — (WAZP_08_Your-Heart-Dey-Heavy_M__5, If you don't know him, you need to wake up, ehn?)
    • De village people don wake up now. Deir eyes don open so tey garri cheap again.  — (NST_cleaned__21573. She only wakes, takes her bath and run off to school.)
  1. Na when person body ready for nacks.
    If you touch me like dat again, you go wake up my down below o.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. I will be aroused if you touch my genitals again.)
    • I dey like nack woman for morning because na dat time my body go don wake well.  — (NSC_Legbeti. I like making love early in the morning as that is when im fully aroused.)
  2. Na when person body die leave am.
    “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. )
  3. Na make people try pass as dem dey do before.
    Derefore, make all dose wey di thing concern wake up do something quick quick.  — (deuber__756, Consequently, all those affected did something quickly. )
    S  — (Tel Janet make she 'wake up quick o or express go pass am.

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  • English: wake up from sleep, regain consciousness.