Word0.6% of everything written
akua
water
- Where it comes from
- Latin aqua, Spanish agua, Portuguese água, Italian acqua
- Group
- Food and water
- First taught
- Lesson 2
- How often it is used
- 41 times in running Amadunia — 0.6% of every word written, the 35th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 32 of the 1321 glossed sentence pairs use it. That is a narrower measure than the one above — only sentences carrying an English translation are in the corpus, and it is the measure you can check for yourself.
- Looked up in English as
- water
- More than one
- akua-akua — the noun said twice, joined by a hyphen. Nothing is added and nothing inside the word changes, so nothing can become irregular. The rule.
In use12 shown
Sentences that use it.
Every one written by hand and checked against the rules. Shortest first.
- Akua barid.The water is cold.lessons/lesson-08-getting-by
- Akua asul.The water is blue.lessons/lesson-12-colors-directions
- Leta akua.Bring water.texts/text-27-kalima-por-anak-anak
- Yu mau akua.You want water.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Yu beri akua?Will you give water?lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Anak nomu akua.The child drinks water.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Anak-anak nomu akua.The children drink water.lessons/lesson-05-plural
- Ta-ta mau akua.They want water.lessons/lesson-09-pronouns
- Yuki es akua.Snow is water.lessons/lesson-13-weather-directions
- Ca o akua?Tea or water?lessons/lesson-15-pointing-placing
- Akua ini safi.This water is clean.lessons/lesson-25-doing-and-being
- Beri akua, plis.Give water, please.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
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