wetin

Naija

Alternative forms

• anything 0.70 1115, everything 0.70 1297, something 0.68 1110, someting 0.66 216, anytin 0.65 372, why 0.61 4261, sey 0.58 21386, always 0.58 1011, sometin 0.58 246

Etymology

Borrowed from English wetin

Pronunciation

• wetin*

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 426
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 45
• Frequency in raw corpus: 16629
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 31

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Pronoun

wetin: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. dep (frequency:9383)

   Wetin im do,  — (NST_cleaned__10318, __no translation__)

   Wetin we do,  — (NST_cleaned__30465, __no translation__)

2. - (frequency:451)

   wetin.  — (deuber__968, __no translation__)

   Wetin?  — (ONI_14_Girlfriends_DG__8, What ?)

3. cc-dep (frequency:338)

   And wetin we want.  — (BEN_13_Praise-Di-Lord_DG__7, And what we want)

   Use map, or wetin dem dey call GPS.  — (jw__38457, __no translation__)

4. amod (frequency:206)

   Wetin next?  — (bbc__99502, __no translation__)

   Partial wetin?  — (ENU_19_Football-Fans-Discussion_DG__48, Partial what ?)

5. case (frequency:84)

   For wetin,  — (ENU_20_Relationship-With-Women_DG__208, For what ?)

   For wetin?  — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__160, For what ?)

6. acl (frequency:67)

   E no know wetin to do.  — (BEN_19a_Man-Must-Wack_DG__82, He didn't know what to do.)

   I no know wetin to do.  — (jw__15893, __no translation__)

7. nsubj (frequency:30)

   Wetin e?  — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__36, What does it... ?)

   Wetin Mr.  — (bbc__99028, __no translation__)

8. nmod (frequency:25)

   I say wetin oga Jovie…  — (NST_cleaned__17906, __no translation__)

   Sometime I dey ask myself wetin Mr.  — (deuber__1897, __no translation__)

9. cc (frequency:23)

   Sey wetin?  — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__88, That what ?)

   Abi wetin?  — (KAD_08_Kasu-Student-Interaction_DG__20, Or what ?)

10. appos (frequency:19)

    We no know wetin, where we go go.  — (NST_cleaned__25740, __no translation__)

    Wetin, wetin, wetin you dey tell me,  — (NST_cleaned__27093, __no translation__)

11. conj (frequency:18)

    And e no fit make wetin e plant grow.  — (jw__46620, __no translation__)

    I no even know wetin di meaning of dat M.  — (KAD_24_Biography_M__135, I didnt even know what the meaning of that M was.)

12. dep-det (frequency:14)

    Ehen na im be we, di wetin we dey talk.  — (BEN_15a_Theology-Demons_DG__143, Ehen that is... we... the... what we are talking about.)

    Na im be di wetin people dey do now aha.  — (NST_cleaned__6938, __no translation__)

13. ccomp (frequency:9)

    Wetin be dis, wetin I see?  — (IBA_33_News-Comments_MG__39, What is this, what did I see?)

    Wetin xenophobia mean, how e take start  — (bbc__99595, __no translation__)

14. advmod (frequency:8)

    Wetin again?  — (ONI_18a_Kanpatakwa_M__43, what again ?)

    Wetin again sef.  — (JOS_06_Ear-Piercing_DG__62, What again ?)

15. det (frequency:6)

    Da~, na differen~, na di wetin di identity, na im be dat.  — (WAZA_02_Tripleas-Life-Story_DG__57, Da... it is differen... it is what the identity, that is that.)

    Make e dey yarn sey Buhari, na im don sama Mama anoda wetin?  — (IBA_32_Tori-By-Samuel_MG__74, Let them say that Buhar, he is the one who has given Mama another what?)

16. cc-cop (frequency:2)

    Abi na wetin?  — (ENU_32_Football-And-Money_DG__64, or what ?)

    And dis one for boys now, sey na, abi na arse down, abi na wetin?  — (JOS_10_Mothers-Against-Mini-Skirts_DG__136, And this one for boys now, that it's... or it's ass down... or what is it?)

Derived forms

• of wetin

1. So if na commitment, ehn if God dey... if God dey bless person because of wetin e dey do, ah I no know sha because I no be God.  — (PRT_07_Drummer_MG__109, So if it's commitment, right, if God is... if God blesses someone for what they do, ah... well, I don’t know because I am not God.)

   But because of wetin don dey happen for past, plenty people don feel sey oh because eh... some people wan come collect wetin dey deir land, de no settle down gist to dem, compensate dem.  — (WAZA_05_Big-Mo_MG__82, But due to the events of the past, so many people felt that oh, because uh... some people want to take over the resources on their lands, they refuse to dialogue with them or compensate them.)

• sey wetin

1. Simply because... sey wetin?  — (IBA_32_Tori-By-Samuel_MG__32, Simply because... you said what now?)

   No be because sey na wetin I study for school, or wetin I dey study, but na because na wetin I like to do, na wetin I get talent for to do.  — (WAZA_03_Obi-Lifestory_MG__9, It has nothing to do with what I studied in school or what I'm studying at the moment, but it's what I like to do; what I'm talented in.)

• wetin Jehovah

1. But when Adam and Eve do wetin Jehovah sey make dem no do, things come spoil.  — (jw__1962, __no translation__)

   The brother talk sey: “I like to preach because na wetin Jehovah sey make we do.  — (jw__9853, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• anything 0.70 1115, everything 0.70 1297, something 0.68 1110, someting 0.66 216, anytin 0.65 372, why 0.61 4261, sey 0.58 21386, always 0.58 1011, sometin 0.58 246

Antonyms

• anything 0.70 1115, everything 0.70 1297, something 0.68 1110, someting 0.66 216, anytin 0.65 372, why 0.61 4261, sey 0.58 21386, always 0.58 1011, sometin 0.58 246

Translations

• English: no definition