year

Naija

Alternative forms

• month 0.86 988, week 0.81 1155, weekend 0.67 203, semester 0.66 31, summer 0.60 101, trafford 0.59 38, season 0.59 908, days 0.52 1457, day 0.51 3361

Etymology

Borrowed from English year

Pronunciation

• jɪr

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 83
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 165
• Frequency in raw corpus: 3392
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 112

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Noun

year: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. det (frequency:det)

   a year.  — (NST_cleaned__33148, __no translation__)

   Dis year.  — (JOS_27_Man-And-Woman_DG__227, This year...)

2. amod (frequency:amod)

   New year, e no do.  — (ENU_35_To-Become-A-Man_M__115, New Year, he did not do.)

   Which is last year,  — (NST_cleaned__17676, __no translation__)

3. case-det (frequency:case-det)

   in a year.  — (NST_cleaned__37439, __no translation__)

   Song of di year  — (bbc__91703, __no translation__)

4. amod-det (frequency:amod-det)

   Canada join dem di next year.  — (bbc__34547, __no translation__)

   Dis year go be a good year for us.  — (NST_cleaned__24390, __no translation__)

5. - (frequency:-)

   Year Host Winner Score  — (bbc__101551, __no translation__)

   BBC Pidgin Everi year Essay Competition  — (bbc__18397, __no translation__)

6. case (frequency:case)

   Im go collect from dis one for one year.  — (ONI_25_Nigeria-Don-Wowo_DG__89, She will collect from this one, in one year.)

   Di journey dey reach up to 40 times per year.  — (bbc__47957, __no translation__)

7. nmod (frequency:nmod)

   go be year of surprise  — (bbc__102351, __no translation__)

   Thousands of migrants dey enta Germany evri year  — (bbc__93841, __no translation__)

8. dep-det (frequency:dep-det)

   Na that year Jesus start to dey rule.  — (jw__24144, __no translation__)

   But e come later go prison for carrying knife di following year.  — (bbc__22545, __no translation__)

9. advmod (frequency:advmod)

   ASUU don dey go on strike almost everi year since since di kontri return to democracy for 1999.  — (bbc__10934, __no translation__)

   Di Community Shield game dey happun everi year before di English Premier League season dey start.  — (bbc__31042, __no translation__)

10. det-obj (frequency:det-obj)

    For June dis year, Russia been host di Confederations Cup as rehearsal for World Cup.  — (bbc__50333, __no translation__)

    ALEXIS HUGUET Na since May dis year Moslem refugees don dey come di church compound for Bangassou  — (bbc__10745, __no translation__)

11. dep (frequency:dep)

    Malaria na big gbege for Nigeria and almost 400,000 thousand pipo dey die of di disease everi year.  — (bbc__65034, __no translation__)

    According to sabi pipo CancerIndex 2012 report, na 71,600 women dey die of breast cancer everi year.  — (bbc__12169, __no translation__)

12. amod-dep (frequency:amod-dep)

    New year pass, we no go.  — (NST_cleaned__35766, __no translation__)

    Imagine last year, we paid forty seven.  — (KAD_08_Kasu-Student-Interaction_DG__196, Imagine, last year,we paid forty seven thousand naira.)

13. det-nmod (frequency:det-nmod)

    one year of President Obasanjo.  — (deuber__6299, __no translation__)

    Every year like dat, im go dey tell me sey you never do your ICAN.  — (LAG_11_Adeniyi-Lifestory_MG__93, So every year, he will be telling you haven't taken your ICAN [Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria] exams.)

14. acl-det (frequency:acl-det)

    Plantation Boiz no be twins now, but dem try, dat year when dem comot, de try.  — (JOS_31_Psqaure-And-Efe_DG__62, Plantation Boiz were not twins now. But they tried; that year that they came out, they tried.)

    The year before dem born me, one man wey im name na John Papparizos don first preach to my papa and mama.  — (jw__36596, __no translation__)

15. cc (frequency:cc)

    Maybe na next week, or next year we go open di, di report card of dat prophet guy.  — (IBA_42_Barrabas_DG__66, Maybe it'll be next week or next year,we will attend to the case of the prophet guy,)

    Di Chief Registrar, as e keep Adopted Children Register and any oder record wey dem arrange ABC or year, go also keep other records and books wey dey necessary as e connect wit di records wey dey Register of Births wey dem don write as “ Adopted”.  — (hildrights__102, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• Evri year

1. Evri year dem dey do dis exercise, but e dey always chop pipo head.  — (bbc__66100, __no translation__)

   Evri year we dey give 2.5% of all we money and property to pipo wey no get.  — (bbc__78507, __no translation__)* July year

1. For July last year, at least 22 pipo die afta one illegal goldmine collapse for western Ghana.  — (bbc__50307, __no translation__)

   For July last year Zambia been ban Koffi make e no enta dia kontri One French court don nack Congo music star Koffi Olomide two year suspended prison sentence for sexual assault ontop one 15-year-old girl, wey be one of im dancers.  — (bbc__50306, __no translation__)* May year

1. TONY KARUMBA Doctors witout Borders wey be charity organization don tok say dem treat 2,600 victims of sexual violence for just one town since May last year.  — (bbc__92885, __no translation__)

   But for May last year Ozil cause nationwide controversy wen he pose with di Turkish leader ahead of di 2018 World Cup for Russia, dis one make some pipo for Germany to ask qweshion about where im loyalty dey.  — (bbc__22729, __no translation__)* evri year

1. Di event wey dey happun evri year dey gada business pipo from all over Africa.  — (bbc__34296, __no translation__)

   Since 1971 United Nations set June 5 evri year as day to tok about wetin dey happen for di environment.  — (bbc__89644, __no translation__)* year C.E.

1. Three years don pass since Jesus baptize, and the year 32 C.E. don dey end.  — (jw__37426, __no translation__)

   One man wey e name na Tertullian write about-am around the year 200 C.E. E talk say: “They love each other .  — (jw__7394, __no translation__)* year ban

1. France allow make Platini, wey get four year ban from football, watch match for stadium during di Euro 2016 competition, but dem no allow am do any official job for di competition.  — (bbc__52929, __no translation__)

   'NPP gov't dey lack foresight, dem dey suffer from di poverty of pragmatic thinking' Ghana gov't lift two year ban on small-scale mining Ghana Foreign Ministry remove Mahatma Gandhi statue from University campus afta lecturers protest  — (bbc__9133, __no translation__)* year day

1. Na 324 passengers and 14 air workers dey inside di Jet Airways flight 9W 119 wey travel on new year day.  — (bbc__69713, __no translation__)

   On Wednesday, youths for di state, don enter street dey protest for di state capital, Makurdi on top Fulani attack on New year day.  — (bbc__77846, __no translation__)* year deal

1. Moses Simon sign five year deal wit Levante Amunike of Nigeria 'Dream Team' na new head coach for Tanzania  — (bbc__67820, __no translation__)

   Zlatan Ibrahimovic don re-sign with Man U Manchester United don sign another one year deal with striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic.  — (bbc__102210, __no translation__)* year list

1. Athletes need to earn minimum of $25m to make this year list.  — (bbc__17766, __no translation__)

   Forbes don release dia everi year list of billionaires for Africa and oga Aliko still siddon on top di list wit $10.3 billion wey im get.  — (bbc__52574, __no translation__)

Synonymes

• month 0.86 988, week 0.81 1155, weekend 0.67 203, semester 0.66 31, summer 0.60 101, trafford 0.59 38, season 0.59 908, days 0.52 1457, day 0.51 3361

Antonymes

• month 0.86 988, week 0.81 1155, weekend 0.67 203, semester 0.66 31, summer 0.60 101, trafford 0.59 38, season 0.59 908, days 0.52 1457, day 0.51 3361

Translations

• English: no definition