On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Pidgin. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Pidgin meaning
- An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.
- A person's business, occupation, work, or trade (also spelt as pigeon).
Synonyms of Pidgin
Using Pidgin
- The main meaning on this page is: An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers. | A person's business, occupation, work, or trade (also spelt as pigeon).
- Useful related words include: artificial language.
- In the example corpus, pidgin often appears in combinations such as: in pidgin, pidgin english, the pidgin.
Context around Pidgin
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pidgin
- In this selection, "pidgin" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nigerian, bbc, leone, english, language and sierra stand out and add context to how "pidgin" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and cameroonian pidgin and bbc news pidgin that he. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pidgin" sits close to words such as abattoir, agi and agitations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pidgin
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And the broadcaster still speaks pidgin fluently. (7 words)
Pidgin language fit also dey contribute to economic development. (9 words)
One of them speaking with me was speaking pidgin English. (10 words)
If isn’t the most sophisticated allegory (you won’t need a shovel to uncover the subtext), it’s a bawdy hoot, applying the director’s cracked visual imagination to screenwriter Tony McNamara’s volley of frequently hilarious pidgin bon mots. (41 words)
Even the arrest and release of the former BBC Pidgin Editor and current West Africa Regional Editor of the Conversation, Adejuwon Soyinka, clearly shows a pattern, whose objective is to intimidate journalists for speaking the truth to this government. (39 words)
In a statement by the Divisional Head, Corporate Communications/Product Management, Fela Ibidapo said that the bank considered use of Pidgin English as a marker of identity and solidarity, also as means to promote local content use of language. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
They include: Nigerian Pidgin, Sierra Leone Pidgin (also known as Krio), Ghanaian pidgin, Senegalese Pidgin and Cameroonian Pidgin.
Hawaiian Pidgin main Some residents of Hawaii speak Hawai i Creole English (HCE), endonymically called pidgin or pidgin English.
Lagos and Abuja stations are currently running the pidgin version of the radio tagged 'You get mind' while Kaduna stations are running the Hausa version of the pidgin radio.
Nigeria has radio stations that use Pidgin exclusively, and the British Broadcasting Corporation has a pidgin language service.
But if a Pidgin language becomes the main language of a speech community, then eventually children will grow up learning the pidgin as their first language.
Most linguists believe that a creole develops through a process of nativization of a pidgin when children of pidgin-speakers use it as their primary language.
Pidgin language fit also dey contribute to economic development.
Speaking in Pidgin English, he said, “Boko Haram dem go and kill everybody.
During President Bola Tinubu’s state visit to France on November 28, 2024, he and President Emmanuel Macron exchanged lighthearted greetings in Pidgin English on social media.
Even the arrest and release of the former BBC Pidgin Editor and current West Africa Regional Editor of the Conversation, Adejuwon Soyinka, clearly shows a pattern, whose objective is to intimidate journalists for speaking the truth to this government.
If isn’t the most sophisticated allegory (you won’t need a shovel to uncover the subtext), it’s a bawdy hoot, applying the director’s cracked visual imagination to screenwriter Tony McNamara’s volley of frequently hilarious pidgin bon mots.
I needed a job in Lagos so I interviewed for English and Pidgin presenter at Sports Radio Brila FM Lagos in 2014.
Thanks to BBC Pidgin, the world now knows that under Governor Obaseki, majority of Edo citizens, including PDP members, wallow in extreme poverty, hunger and insecurity.
The note was written in pidgin and could mean many things to the readers.
And the broadcaster still speaks pidgin fluently.
General Gowon, who told the BBC News Pidgin that he served Nigeria with utmost fear of God adding that his legacies were visible to everyone.
In a statement by the Divisional Head, Corporate Communications/Product Management, Fela Ibidapo said that the bank considered use of Pidgin English as a marker of identity and solidarity, also as means to promote local content use of language.
One of them speaking with me was speaking pidgin English.
Someone who knows first-hand what it’s like to be the target of community backlash is Brandon Grossutti, owner of Pidgin, a high-end French-Asian restaurant that moved into the Downtown Eastside in 2013.
This explains why the movie is titled “Kasala” (Nigerian pidgin for trouble).
Common combinations with pidgin
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in pidgin 11×
- pidgin english 10×
- the pidgin 6×
- pidgin language 5×
- of pidgin 4×
- pidgin and 3×
- pidgin or 3×
- nigerian pidgin 2×
- pidgin as 2×
- pidgin when 2×