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

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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

you: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:17953)

   You.  — (JOS_27_Man-And-Woman_DG__1, You...)

   You?  — (LAG_14_Charles-And-Alfred-On-Music_DG__88, You ?)

2. case (frequency:779)

   for you  — (deuber__3261, __no translation__)

   Wey you?  — (ABJ_INF_03_Nigerian-Men-Dey-Try_DG__36, You !)

3. conj (frequency:75)

   You dis girl?  — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__146, You, this girl ?)

   You, and your male?  — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__74, Your mother and you ?)

4. dep (frequency:69)

   You wey score…  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__310, You who score...)

   Na you dem want.  — (jw__26696, __no translation__)

5. cc (frequency:47)

   Me, abi you?  — (KAD_21_Cameroon-School_DG__87, You or me ?)

   Because you… ,  — (WAZA_06_Cigarettes_T__75, Because you..)

6. amod (frequency:33)

   You alone?  — (KAD_15_Money-Wahala_MG__108, Just you?)

   Na only you,  — (NST_cleaned__17085, __no translation__)

7. advmod (frequency:31)

   You just.  — (KAD_11_Edikaikong-Gbegiri_M__8, You just...)

   You undderstand?  — (WAZP_08_Your-Heart-Dey-Heavy_M__19, You understand ?)

8. nmod (frequency:14)

   N~, no you…  — (JOS_06_Ear-Piercing_DG__154, No...no you...)

   You, you, you of all people!  — (LAG_22_I-Senior-You_DG__152, You, you,you of all people)

9. nsubj (frequency:7)

   You you dey smile?  — (NST_cleaned__7146, __no translation__)

   You X dey waka eh,  — (IBA_17_Julie-And-Danile_DG__12, You X go out a lot, eh !)

10. case-cc (frequency:6)

    And if you...  — (NST_cleaned__41114, __no translation__)

    Our love dey grow for ourself and for you.  — (jw__28656, __no translation__)

11. det (frequency:5)

    Jarawa, di you know ehn...  — (NST_cleaned__36885, __no translation__)

    No be like dis you dey do before o.  — (deuber__1676, __no translation__)

12. appos (frequency:5)

    You guy chop di bone, everyting.  — (ENU_37_Dmoris-Restaurant_MG__117, The guy ate the bones and everything.)

    She say “thank you Nma.” She dey peel yam and green vegetable and beans dey inside basket near am.  — (katakata__626, __no translation__)

13. obj (frequency:3)

    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.)

    You “understand everything” wey you need to do to make God happy?  — (jw__41296, __no translation__)

14. cop (frequency:3)

    Na you.  — (LAG_39_Recording-Wahala_T__145, It is you.)

    Na you…  — (IBA_24_Mummy-Debbie_DG__144, It's you.)

15. ccomp (frequency:2)

    Na this one make Philippians 2:12 talk sey make you “continue to dey fear God and dey do things wey go save” you.  — (jw__19288, __no translation__)

    Una hear wetin dat small pikin sing, e say train up your child when e dey small, so dat when e grow, you self wey be im mama go rest.  — (deuber__1695, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• of you

1. Na because of only you, I circumcise my pikin?  — (IBA_03_Womanisers_MG__61, Is it because of you alone I circumcised my child?)

   Dere is a real person inside of you wey be di spirit.  — (PRT_11_A-Man-Named-Jesus_MG__44, There is a real person inside you, which is the Spirit.)

• you X

1. E no go even feed you X, your parent, your siblings.  — (KAD_08_Kasu-Student-Interaction_DG__100, It will not even feed you...your parents and your siblings.)

   When you know sey you wan come look for job for dis side, make you not just come cause immediately you X.  — (NST_cleaned__22109, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• 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

Antonyms

• 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

Translations

• English: no definition