Word0.7% of everything written
din
day
- Where it comes from
- Hindi/Urdu din, Bengali din, Persian din
- Group
- Time
- First taught
- Lesson 3
- How often it is used
- 46 times in running Amadunia — 0.7% of every word written, the 31st commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 35 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
- day
- More than one
- din-din — 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.
- Din cang.The day is long.lessons/lesson-13-weather-directions
- Din finis.The day is done.texts/text-9-pagi-in-madina
- Din-din go.The days go.texts/text-21-uan-umur
- Din hao.The day is good.texts/text-28-din-mi
- Din ini.Today.phrasebook
- Din saufa garam.The day will be hot.lessons/lesson-11-being
- Din lai tena.Day comes again.texts/text-5-uan
- Mi start din.I begin the day.texts/text-9-pagi-in-madina
- Din ini hao.It's a good day.phrasebook
- Din kabir, rat keci.The day is big, the night is small.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Cok din, cok rat.Many days, many nights.lessons/lesson-05-plural
- Din garam, rat barid.The day is hot, the night is cold.lessons/lesson-08-getting-by
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