Wordin 18 sentences
du
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- Where it comes from
- Latin duo, Greek dýo, Russian dva, Hindi/Urdu do, Persian do, Welsh dau — global through duo, dual
- Group
- Numbers
- In the published corpus
- 18 of the 1321 glossed sentence pairs use it. Only the sentences that carry an English translation are in the corpus, and it is the measure you can check for yourself.
- More than one
- du-du — 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.
- du domtwo houseslessons/lesson-05-plural
- Du anak senang.Two children are happy.texts/text-23-kim-paling-hayai
- — Du pan.— Two breads.texts/text-29-yu-mau-ke
- Mi kan du sol?Do I see two suns?lessons/lesson-05-plural
- Mi punya du kanis.I have two dogs.lessons/lesson-25-doing-and-being
- Ta-ta espera du hora.They wait two hours.texts/text-6-seti-din
- Mi punya du anak.I have two children.phrasebook
- Mi suda studi du tahun.I studied for two years.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
- Dom mi punya du pintu.My house has two doors.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
- Madina ini punya du ponte.This city has two bridges.lessons/lesson-24-the-table-and-the-city
- Mi punya du rafiki baru.I have two new friends.texts/text-7-surat-por-mama
- Mi punya du telinga aur uan mulut.I have two ears and one mouth.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
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