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 ?

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: -- Definition in Naija?

1. -

   17953  — no translation

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

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

2. cc

   47  — no translation

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

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

3. dep

   69  — no translation

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

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

4. det

   5  — no translation

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

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

5. acl

   1  — no translation

   Face me say na me, you wan kill, instead of you to kill me, na me, go kill you first for dis town.  — (WAZL_15_MC-Abi_MG__56, He pointed the gun at me saying, You want to kill me, but instead, I'll be the first person to kill you in this town.)

6. obj

   3  — no translation

   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__)

7. aux

   1  — no translation

   I no fit judge am because Bible say make you no judge.  — (BEN_15c_Theology-Church-Finances_DG__157, I cannot judge him because the Bible says you should not judge.)

8. cop

   3  — no translation

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

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

9. case

   779  — no translation

   for you  — (deuber__3261, __no translation__)

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

10. amod

    33  — no translation

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

    Na only you,  — (NST_cleaned__17085, __no translation__)

11. conj

    75  — no translation

    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 ?)

12. nmod

    14  — no translation

    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)

13. nsubj

    7  — no translation

    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 !)

14. appos

    5  — no translation

    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__)

15. ccomp

    2  — no translation

    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__)

16. advmod

    31  — no translation

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

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

17. cc-dep

    1  — no translation

    The day wey you baptize, dem ask you sey, “Because Jesus die for you, you don repent from your sin and give Jehovah your life to do wetin e want?” And you sey, yes.  — (jw__26380, __no translation__)

18. dep-det

    1  — no translation

    Alright ehm if you dey dere right now, you dey listen to us, and di ehm you from inside Military Hospital, you dey hear us,  — (NST_cleaned__1950, __no translation__)

19. case-cc

    6  — no translation

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

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

Derived forms

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Synonymes

• 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

Antonymes

• 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: ?