worry
Naija
Alternative forms
- understand 0.66 1148, tink 0.65 588, complain 0.64 431, feel 0.64 1488, think 0.64 2296, pain 0.64 627, fear 0.64 1340, disturb 0.63 183, careful 0.63 106
Etymology
etymology:English 'worry'.
Pronunciation
- wɔ́rì
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 30
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 352
- Frequency in raw corpus: 863
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 409
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Adjective
worry: to trouble, be agitated, anxious -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- I no dey worry myself sey e no come. — no translation
Derived forms
Synonyms
- understand 0.66 1148, tink 0.65 588, complain 0.64 431, feel 0.64 1488, think 0.64 2296, pain 0.64 627, fear 0.64 1340, disturb 0.63 183, careful 0.63 106
Antonyms
- understand 0.66 1148, tink 0.65 588, complain 0.64 431, feel 0.64 1488, think 0.64 2296, pain 0.64 627, fear 0.64 1340, disturb 0.63 183, careful 0.63 106
Translations
- English: to trouble, be agitated, anxious
Verb
worry: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- aux-obj (frequency:53)
- Wetin dey worry me? — (bbc__99341, __no translation__)
- Wetin dey worry you? — (WAZP_04_Ponzi-Scheme_MG__100, What's your problem?)
- advmod (frequency:29)
- No worry. — (IBA_22_School-Children_DG__185, Don't worry.)
- No worry, — (PRT_03_Football_DG__211, Don't worry.)
- - (frequency:23)
- Dont worry. — (IBA_05_Cobbler_DG__182, Don't worry.)
- Dont worry, — (LAG_22_I-Senior-You_DG__55, Dont worry.)
- obj (frequency:16)
- Dem dey worry' land worry water too' — (bbc__8728, __no translation__)
- But afta some months, boredom begin worry me. — (bbc__21739, __no translation__)
- mark-obj (frequency:14)
- E talk about worry worry and the peace wey God dey give. — (jw__43184, __no translation__)
- E fit surprise dem if dem know, and their mind fit even start to worry dem. — (jw__23046, __no translation__)
- aux (frequency:8)
- Dont worry. — (NST_cleaned__13488, __no translation__)
- Dont worry, — (NST_cleaned__11516, __no translation__)
- mark (frequency:8)
- You no need to worry — (jw__47784, __no translation__)
- No need to worry, Paradise dey come. — (jw__27237, __no translation__)
- aux-nsubj (frequency:5)
- UN dey worry — (bbc__96679, __no translation__)
- everybody dey worry — (deuber__6329, __no translation__)
- advmod-cc (frequency:4)
- But no worry, — (WAZP_08_Your-Heart-Dey-Heavy_M__22, But don't worry.)
- But no worry! — (jw__42285, __no translation__)
- dep-mark (frequency:3)
- Wetin Jesus mean when e talk sey: ‘No worry at all’? — (jw__41047, __no translation__)
- No, dat one, you no even need to worry about dat one at all, at all. — (KAD_19_Kabiru-Gymnasium_DG__101, No that one, you don't even need to worry about dat one at all, at all.)
- cc (frequency:2)
- But e still get other things for life wey fit make person fear or worry. — (jw__7935, __no translation__)
- Instead make the problem dey make dem fear or worry, God make their mind come down and e give dem peace wey pass anything wey person fit think of. — (jw__31160, __no translation__)
- nsubj (frequency:2)
- You go come see sey many things wey fit make you worry no go happen. — (jw__20537, __no translation__)
- I begin de worry, and de think whether I go take the work and no go the school again. — (jw__1651, __no translation__)
- aux-dep (frequency:2)
- Why you no suppose dey worry because of wetin you dey face now? — (jw__46995, __no translation__)
- But no be today fake tins like certificate dey worry for inside Nigeria. — (bbc__23144, __no translation__)
- advcl-obj (frequency:2)
- She no go let shame worry her as she dey put your needs before her own. — (bbc__37019, __no translation__)
- Even though sey Jesus know sey Lazarus dey sick, e no let the matter worry am too much. — (jw__9962, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- understand 0.66 1148, tink 0.65 588, complain 0.64 431, feel 0.64 1488, think 0.64 2296, pain 0.64 627, fear 0.64 1340, disturb 0.63 183, careful 0.63 106
Antonyms
- understand 0.66 1148, tink 0.65 588, complain 0.64 431, feel 0.64 1488, think 0.64 2296, pain 0.64 627, fear 0.64 1340, disturb 0.63 183, careful 0.63 106
Translations
- English: no definition