you
Naija
Alternative forms
- yourself 0.73 332, i 0.73 22807, somebody 0.69 191, someone 0.66 64, your 0.65 5542, we 0.63 25536, nobody 0.62 634, am 0.62 25602, me 0.61 7747
Etymology
Borrowed from English you
Pronunciation
- ju
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 2580
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 5
- Frequency in raw corpus: 22969
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 20
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Pronoun
Use am talk about person who be man or woman.
- Wey you? — (ABJ_INF_03_Nigerian-Men-Dey-Try_DG__36, Where are you !)
- You you dey smile? — (NST_cleaned__7146, You are smiling?)
- Our love dey grow for ourself and for you. — (jw__28656, Our love is growing for each other and for you.)
- No be like dis you dey do before o. — (deuber__1676, You were not behaving this way before.)
- E no suppose do like dat to you now. — (ENU_20_Relationship-With-Women_DG__106, She is not supposed to behave that way to you.)
Translations
- English: you