yes

Naija

Alternative forms

• hm 0.82 1176, toh 0.77 307, okay 0.76 1302, ehen 0.74 871, haha 0.73 836, mstchew 0.72 423, oh 0.69 337, shey 0.66 167, abeg 0.63 467

Etymology

Borrowed from English yes

Pronunciation

• jɛs

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 66
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 195
• Frequency in raw corpus: 596
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 569

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Interjection

yes: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:306)

   yes  — (deuber__6309, __no translation__)

   Yes.  — (IBA_27_Nigerian-Police_DG__94, Yes.)

2. discourse (frequency:28)

   Ah yes.  — (IBA_27_Nigerian-Police_DG__78, Ah. Yes.)

   Oh yes!  — (KAD_07_Receptionists_DG__209, Oh yes !)

3. advmod:emph (frequency:15)

   Yes o!  — (WAZA_07_Self-Medication_T__19, Yes.)

   Yes o.  — (BEN_19a_Man-Must-Wack_DG__26, Yes, indeed.)

4. dep (frequency:9)

   Yes for inside house,  — (KAN_02_Girls-Life-In-Kano_DG__6, Yes, at home.)

   If yes, BBC dey find you.  — (bbc__101649, __no translation__)

5. vocative (frequency:6)

   Yes Ma,  — (IBA_25_Buying-Indomie_DG__91, Yes Ma.)

   Yes Ma.  — (IBA_25_Buying-Indomie_DG__190, Yes, Ma.)

6. conj (frequency:3)

   Yes or no?  — (KAD_12_Mechanic-At-Work_MG__4, Yes or no?)

   Yes and we are expecting…  — (LAG_19_Nepa-Wahala_DG__95, yes and we are expecting,)

7. advmod (frequency:3)

   Exactly yes!  — (WAZL_06_Na-Your-Health_DG__123, Exactly. Yes.)

   Yes so di woman go try make she...  — (IBA_03_Womanisers_MG__117, Yes, so, the woman should try to be...)

8. obl:mod (frequency:3)

   For Nigeria now, yes.  — (BEN_23_Introducing-New-Machines_DG__29, In Nigeria now, yes.)

   Yes of fight-fight don scata di infrastructure wey dey allow clean water and toilets especially for North-East areas.  — (bbc__101579, __no translation__)

9. obl:arg (frequency:3)

   Only no, no, no, no yes for una language,  — (JOS_30_Northern-Skirmishes_DG__50, Only no, no, no; no yes in your language ? )

   Na 391 MPs vote no to di 242 wey say yes to di deal.  — (bbc__69717, __no translation__)

10. dislocated (frequency:3)

    Wetin, yes!  — (NST_cleaned__19625, __no translation__)

    To show di world dat yes we, Nigeria, we can make it.  — (NST_cleaned__11367, __no translation__)

11. cc (frequency:2)

    Sey yes.  — (ONI_24_We-Must-Do-Something_M__84, That yes.)

    But yes.  — (KAN_02_Girls-Life-In-Kano_DG__78, But... Yes.)

12. conj:dicto (frequency:2)

    Yes, no, Dasuu.  — (JOS_04_Mummy-Wahala_DG__281, yes... no Dasuu.)

    So dat yes, yes, yesterday, naim e call me,  — (ABJ_GWA_04_Tins-Don-Hard-For-Everywhere_DG__55, Yesterday,was when he called me.)

Synonyms

• hm 0.82 1176, toh 0.77 307, okay 0.76 1302, ehen 0.74 871, haha 0.73 836, mstchew 0.72 423, oh 0.69 337, shey 0.66 167, abeg 0.63 467

Antonyms

• hm 0.82 1176, toh 0.77 307, okay 0.76 1302, ehen 0.74 871, haha 0.73 836, mstchew 0.72 423, oh 0.69 337, shey 0.66 167, abeg 0.63 467

Translations

• English: no definition

Verb

yes: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:5)

   Na finger ladies yes.  — (NST_cleaned__36348, __no translation__)

   So dat meh de know sey yes dat ting now we see, e no dey good.  — (NST_cleaned__9299, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• hm 0.82 1176, toh 0.77 307, okay 0.76 1302, ehen 0.74 871, haha 0.73 836, mstchew 0.72 423, oh 0.69 337, shey 0.66 167, abeg 0.63 467

Antonyms

• hm 0.82 1176, toh 0.77 307, okay 0.76 1302, ehen 0.74 871, haha 0.73 836, mstchew 0.72 423, oh 0.69 337, shey 0.66 167, abeg 0.63 467

Translations

• English: no definition