Word1.5% of everything written
hao
good
- Where it comes from
- Chinese hǎo (好)
- Group
- Qualities and ideas
- First taught
- Lesson 2
- How often it is used
- 101 times in running Amadunia — 1.5% of every word written, the 14th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 73 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
- good
- More than one
- hao-hao — 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.
- Sol hao!The sun is good!lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Ca hao.The tea is good.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Pagi hao.The morning is good.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Insan hao.A good person. / The person is good.lessons/lesson-08-getting-by
- Studi hao!Study well!texts/text-12-tarik-por-skola
- Din hao.The day is good.texts/text-28-din-mi
- Pagi hao!Good morning!phrasebook
- Aksam hao!Good evening!phrasebook
- Yu hao!You are good!phrasebook
- Ini hao!This is good!phrasebook
- rafiki kita haoour good friendgrammar/possession
- rafiki yu haoyour good friendlessons/lesson-06-possession
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