water
Naija
Etymology
From: English water
Pronunciation
- wɔ́tèr
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 83
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 166
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1264
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 295
Noun
- Sey that thing wey
- We dey suffer for water. — (IBA_20_Bose-Alade_MG__59, The lack of water is a problem for us.)
- No water, no light. — (NST_cleaned__7783, There is no water and light.)
- E just be like ororo, and water, oil, and water. — (IBA_13_Road-Safety_M__101, It is just like oil and water, oil and water.)
- When e come out from the water, — (jw__44604, __no translation__)
- AFP Di plane fly very low to di water — (bbc__9877, __no translation__)
- No we no dey drink Sapele water for here. — (LAG_26_Selling-Drinks_DG__114, No o ! We don't drink local gin here.)
- Water for sea de go up and down, e no de quiet. — (jw__9399, __no translation__)
- Ajegunle na one of di big slums for Lagos - di two of dem get plenty things in common like poverty and bad water. — (bbc__13503, Ajegunle is one of the big slums in lagos. The two them have poverty and bad water in common)
- For some village na dis kain stream dem dey drink from Nigeria suppose chook eye for water mata like national priority — (bbc__52364, __no translation__)
Related forms
- holy water river water,drinking water, pure water, [[eba water].
Translations
- English: water'
Verb
- Make person wet wetin dry
- 'water' the ground before you begin to sweep. — (IBA_20_Bose-Alade_MG__59, Wet the ground before sweeping.)
- They water, . — (NST_cleaned__7783, There is no water and light.)
Synonyms
Translations
- English: water'