way

Naija

Alternative forms

• how 0.67 9827, style 0.58 282, ways 0.57 190, ting 0.54 1092, opportunity 0.53 272, method 0.50 105, always 0.49 1011, theirself 0.49 250, tings 0.49 536

Etymology

Borrowed from English way

Pronunciation

• weɪ

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 84
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 161
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2958
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 133

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Noun

way: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. dep-det (frequency:885)

   Dat way wey…  — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__80, That way which...)

   Di way you take…  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__88, The way you...)

2. det (frequency:146)

   No way!  — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__79, No way !)

   No way.  — (ENU_21_Solomon-And-Kingsman_DG__14, No solution.)

3. - (frequency:82)

   Na way.  — (NST_cleaned__25843, __no translation__)

   “No way!  — (katakata__121, __no translation__)

4. acl (frequency:80)

   Way to escape  — (bbc__98178, __no translation__)

   Man U need to find way to handle Messi  — (bbc__65158, __no translation__)

5. acl-det (frequency:51)

   no way to communicate with police.  — (deuber__2516, __no translation__)

   Wetin be one way to remember Governing Body?  — (jw__41547, __no translation__)

6. amod (frequency:40)

   You dey go different way.  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__461, You are going in a different direction.)

   But na, na Nigerian way be dat.  — (NST_cleaned__4979, __no translation__)

7. dep (frequency:36)

   E get way dem suppose take do some tins.  — (bbc__1063, __no translation__)

   Dis day, plenti pipo dey find way reduce dia sugar.  — (bbc__40436, __no translation__)

8. nmod (frequency:24)

   Today na Lola, tomorrow na Jude, but Jude way no pure.  — (NST_cleaned__18367, __no translation__)

   Nintcheu bin don tok say na way for tief results for election.  — (bbc__56069, __no translation__)

9. case (frequency:16)

   But if you come talk sey no na me get right of way,  — (IBA_13_Road-Safety_M__221, But if you then say that no, it is me that have the right of way.)

   De don lean because of di way, di way di country dey.  — (ABJ_GWA_04_Tins-Don-Hard-For-Everywhere_DG__104, They have become thin because of the situation of the country.)

10. advmod (frequency:7)

    Way Forward  — (bbc__98177, __no translation__)

    Make dey pay us kwa, make we go no way.  — (ONI_05_New-Year_M__75, Let them pay us, so that we'll go, no way !)

11. cc-det (frequency:3)

    And di way...  — (ONI_07_Dis-Year-Na-My-Year_MG__73, And the way...)

    But di way...  — (ENU_13_School-Life_DG__78, But the way...)

12. conj (frequency:2)

    Most of di unions wey dey for dis congress dem dey do services wey many Nigerians dey use and many many pipo go feel di strike ne way or anoda.  — (bbc__67904, __no translation__)

    Police and gendarmes block all three roads for military court, drive away CRM supporters, stop some party mimbas for enta court, deh arrest three pipo weh deh wan force dia way pass.  — (bbc__82255, __no translation__)

13. nummod (frequency:2)

    One way, na when we pray to am if we get problem.  — (jw__31772, __no translation__)

    According to di Herald newspaper, she say di right to share person property no suppose follow one way, especially if di person no reason say e go take care of im family people dem rights, as dis na wetin di law talk.  — (bbc__11762, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• beta way

1. How to find beta way to take throway dirty, na big headache for Lagos city wey be Nigeria bizness capital.  — (bbc__56624, __no translation__)

   Di leading judge come thank all di lawyers wey involve for petition for dia hard work and di beta way dem write dia last statement.  — (bbc__35751, __no translation__)

• kana way

1. But UN say deh go fit use different kana way laik remote monitor for check weti di pass for ground.  — (bbc__21669, __no translation__)

   “Dis show how deh di manage Cameroon some kana way as kontri pipo no di shiddon for check how deh di design modern cities, name streets,” Nkwi tok.  — (bbc__103026, __no translation__)

• run way

1. Two of dem even waka di run way togeda.  — (bbc__96460, __no translation__)

   Oda Nigerians wey follow walk di run way na Nigerian British rapper Tinie Temah and model Davidson Obennebo.  — (bbc__76075, __no translation__)

• way tins

1. You know okay eh di way tins dey, dey be,  — (KAN_03_My-Plans-For-The-Country_DG__106, You know, okay, the ways things are...are...)

   Sake of di way tins bad for Chibok, Joseph and im family don run comot dia because all dia property, house and farm, boko haram don burn am finish so notin dey for dem again.  — (bbc__86717, __no translation__)

• wayo way

1. Naptip wey be di National Agency for di Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, say dem receive complain say jaguda pipo dey use wayo way, cari many young pipo go Saudi Arabia.  — (bbc__72397, __no translation__)

   We see wetin goment dey tok as something wey show say dem no care about di suffering of workers and goment wan use wayo way, dem wan use left hand collect wetin dem offer wit right hand.  — (bbc__7284, __no translation__)

• yard way

1. Premium Times tori pipo report on Wednesday say di police don even use back yard way carri Samuel Ogundipe, go try am for Magistrate Court inside Kubwa, Abuja for afternoon without him seeing im lawyers.  — (bbc__83011, __no translation__)

   Premium Times tori pipo dey even report say di police don even use back yard way carri Samuel Ogundipe, go try am for Magistrate Court inside Kubwa, Abuja on Wednesday afternoon without him seeing im lawyers.  — (bbc__83010, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• how 0.67 9827, style 0.58 282, ways 0.57 190, ting 0.54 1092, opportunity 0.53 272, method 0.50 105, always 0.49 1011, theirself 0.49 250, tings 0.49 536

Antonyms

• how 0.67 9827, style 0.58 282, ways 0.57 190, ting 0.54 1092, opportunity 0.53 272, method 0.50 105, always 0.49 1011, theirself 0.49 250, tings 0.49 536

Translations

• English: no definition