we

Naija

Alternative forms

• dem 0.67 66999, you 0.63 28881, e 0.62 46271, everybody 0.62 1105, nobody 0.57 634, our 0.56 5912, everybodi 0.56 166, una 0.56 3531, ourself 0.56 247

Etymology

Borrowed from English we

Pronunciation

• wi

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1354
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 12
• Frequency in raw corpus: 20927
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 22

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Pronoun

we: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:16786)

   We…  — (ABJ_NOU_05_Patricias-Lifestory_M__9, We...)

   we...  — (NST_cleaned__35985, __no translation__)

2. case (frequency:38)

   E good for we.  — (JOS_14_Chibozor-View-About-Nigeria_MG__45, It's good for us.)

   Na ting wey we...  — (NST_cleaned__38495, __no translation__)

3. conj (frequency:37)

   Una dey make we and Jehovah happy!  — (jw__38018, __no translation__)

   We and all the animal go be friend.  — (jw__9167, __no translation__)

4. dep (frequency:35)

   We d~, go forget Efe.  — (NST_cleaned__18423, __no translation__)

   Meh we wey remain get money.  — (ABJ_GWA_07_Waec-Money_DG__91, Let us that are remainning have money.)

5. ccomp (frequency:30)

   We still de use Bible correct the way we de think.  — (jw__29062, __no translation__)

   But no be people we de fight, na Satan and the demons.  — (jw__95, __no translation__)

6. advmod (frequency:22)

   we all.  — (deuber__4419, __no translation__)

   We just…  — (NST_cleaned__22296, __no translation__)

7. nmod (frequency:15)

   We neva know.  — (bbc__22840, __no translation__)

   We neva dey walk alone.  — (NST_cleaned__31250, __no translation__)

8. appos (frequency:14)

   Meh de try us now we, di woman.  — (JOS_11_Nigeria-Political-Issues_DG__172, Let them try us, we, the women.)

   But since dat time we neva bring out any body again.  — (bbc__75836, __no translation__)

9. obj (frequency:13)

   As we dey, all of us we no well.  — (NST_cleaned__131, __no translation__)

   You remember di saying na mistakes we dem dey use learn.  — (bbc__101845, __no translation__)

10. det (frequency:7)

    Di, e, we get places for, for rich people, we get places for poor people.  — (LAG_18_Lagos-Districts_M__5, The... it... we have places for for rich people; we have places for poor people.)

    Di vexation, if e form am like dis, we no go dey dere dey dialogue with ourself o.  — (IBA_42_Barrabas_DG__111, His anger, if he getes angry, we will not be here to dialogue with ourselves.)

11. cc (frequency:4)

    Sey we…  — (KAD_07_Receptionists_DG__31, That we...)

    And we…  — (LAG_38_Elections_DG__126, And we...)

12. cop (frequency:4)

    Na we…  — (JOS_26_Small-Talk_DG__229, It's us...)

    Na we...  — (ENU_37_Dmoris-Restaurant_MG__74, Then we...)

13. nsubj (frequency:4)

    We neva dey walk alone.  — (LAG_02_Oliver-And-Cy_T__90, We are never walking alone.)

    How we de “endure as we de produce fruit”?  — (jw__15127, __no translation__)

14. amod-dep (frequency:3)

    Na only we dey get am.  — (NST_cleaned__23623, __no translation__)

    Or for work wey other people follow us do, we fit come dey talk about am like sey na only we do am so that dem go praise us.  — (jw__29882, __no translation__)

15. amod (frequency:2)

    I go write my own, you go write your own, we go combine am.  — (ENU_16_Fishfarm_DG__48, I will write my own, you will write your own. you will combine it.)

    Ah glad say ngomana di encourage we small, we di advertise and sell we products, we di learn plenty, some of we no di kam for win prize but for share idea with kombi dem and copy from one anoda.  — (bbc__224, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• dem 0.67 66999, you 0.63 28881, e 0.62 46271, everybody 0.62 1105, nobody 0.57 634, our 0.56 5912, everybodi 0.56 166, una 0.56 3531, ourself 0.56 247

Antonyms

• dem 0.67 66999, you 0.63 28881, e 0.62 46271, everybody 0.62 1105, nobody 0.57 634, our 0.56 5912, everybodi 0.56 166, una 0.56 3531, ourself 0.56 247

Translations

• English: no definition