Word0.8% of everything written
insan
person, human
- Where it comes from
- Arabic insān — adopted in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Indonesian, Swahili insani
- Group
- People
- First taught
- Lesson 8
- How often it is used
- 55 times in running Amadunia — 0.8% of every word written, the 26th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 48 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
- human, person
- More than one
- insan-insan — 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.
- Insan hao.A good person. / The person is good.lessons/lesson-08-getting-by
- Insan mati.A person dies.texts/text-10-mila-tahun
- Cok insan sini.Many people here.lessons/lesson-08-getting-by
- Insan-insan rabota sasa.The people are working now.lessons/lesson-08-getting-by
- Mi es insan.I am a person.lessons/lesson-11-being
- Insan-insan hao sini.The people are good here.texts/text-7-surat-por-mama
- Cok insan situ.There are many people there.texts/text-15-sol-lai
- Insan-insan go dom.The people go home.texts/text-16-berapa-harga
- Insan itu es doktor.That person is a doctor.lessons/lesson-15-pointing-placing
- Legis benar por insan-insan.The law is true for people.lessons/lesson-21-things-and-ideas
- Insan hidup, insan mati.People live, people die.lessons/lesson-25-doing-and-being
- Insan hidup sen tahun.A person lives a hundred years.texts/text-10-mila-tahun
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