Word2.3% of everything written
anak
child
- Where it comes from
- Indonesian/Malay anak, Tagalog anak, Javanese anak
- Group
- People
- First taught
- Lesson 3
- How often it is used
- 151 times in running Amadunia — 2.3% of every word written, the 5th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 133 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
- child
- More than one
- anak-anak — 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.
- anak taher child, his childgrammar/possession
- nama anakthe child's namegrammar/possession
- Anak keci.The child is small.lessons/lesson-03-people
- tri anakthree childrenlessons/lesson-05-plural
- anak-anak mimy childrenlessons/lesson-06-possession
- berapa anak?how many children?lessons/lesson-07-questions
- Anak sub.The child is below.lessons/lesson-12-colors-directions
- anak ituthat childlessons/lesson-15-pointing-placing
- Anak bimar.The child is ill.texts/text-6-seti-din
- Anak yuYour childtexts/text-7-surat-por-mama
- Anak lihat.The child watches.texts/text-11-anak-katab
- Anak lala.The child sleeps.texts/text-15-sol-lai
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