Word0.8% of everything written
dari
from
- Where it comes from
- Indonesian/Malay dari
- Group
- Prepositions
- First taught
- Lesson 15
- How often it is used
- 56 times in running Amadunia — 0.8% of every word written, the 25th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 50 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
- from
- More than one
- dari-dari — 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.
- Yu dari nali?Where are you from?lessons/lesson-15-pointing-placing
- Mi lai dari market.I come from the market.lessons/lesson-15-pointing-placing
- Kalima-kalima lai dari dunia.The words come from the world.texts/text-3-lingua-ini
- Mi go dari yatak.I get up from the bed.texts/text-9-pagi-in-madina
- Legis lai dari insan.Law comes from people.texts/text-10-mila-tahun
- Amani lai dari insan.Peace comes from people.texts/text-10-mila-tahun
- Anak kimbia dari skola.The child runs from the school.texts/text-11-anak-katab
- Mi dari negara baid.I am from a far country.phrasebook
- Bahari lebi kabir dari sungai.The sea is bigger than the river.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
- Tren lebi hayai dari auto.The train is faster than the car.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
- Asman lebi kabir dari bahari.The sky is bigger than the sea.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
- Uhuru lebi hao dari pesa.Freedom is better than money.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
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