Word1.8% of everything written
dom
house, home
- Where it comes from
- Russian/Polish dom, Czech dům, Latin domus — global through domestic, domicile. Replaced ruma on September 3, 2026
- Group
- Home and world
- First taught
- Lesson 2
- How often it is used
- 120 times in running Amadunia — 1.8% of every word written, the 8th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 87 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
- home, house
- More than one
- dom-dom — 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.
- Dom kabir.The house is big.grammar/copula
- dom mimy housegrammar/possession
- dom rafikithe friend's housegrammar/possession
- Dom keci.The house is small.lessons/lesson-03-people
- du domtwo houseslessons/lesson-05-plural
- dom-dom rafikithe friend's houseslessons/lesson-06-possession
- Berapa dom?How many houses?lessons/lesson-07-questions
- Dom kabir?Is the house big?lessons/lesson-11-being
- Dom merah.The house is red.lessons/lesson-12-colors-directions
- dom inithis houselessons/lesson-15-pointing-placing
- dom mi kabirmy big housegrammar/possession
- dom rafiki mimy friend's housegrammar/possession
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