Word1.3% of everything written
ca
tea
- Where it comes from
- Chinese chá, Hindi chai, Turkish çay, Swahili chai, Russian chay, Persian chai
- Group
- Food and water
- First taught
- Lesson 2
- How often it is used
- 88 times in running Amadunia — 1.3% of every word written, the 16th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 54 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
- tea
- More than one
- ca-ca — 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.
- Ca garam.The tea is hot.grammar/copula
- Ca hao.The tea is good.lessons/lesson-03-people
- ca doktorthe doctor's tealessons/lesson-06-possession
- Yu-yu mau ca?Do you all want tea?grammar/pronouns
- Ta mau ca.He wants tea.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Rafiki nomu ca.The friend drinks tea.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Yu mau ca.You want tea.lessons/lesson-07-questions
- Yu mau ca?Do you want tea?lessons/lesson-07-questions
- Ca saufa garam.The tea will be hot.lessons/lesson-11-being
- Ca mi merah.My tea is red.lessons/lesson-12-colors-directions
- Ca ini garam.This tea is hot.lessons/lesson-15-pointing-placing
- Ca o akua?Tea or water?lessons/lesson-15-pointing-placing
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