Word1.0% of everything written
kabir
big
- Where it comes from
- Arabic kabīr, Swahili -kubwa, Turkish kebir
- Group
- Qualities and ideas
- First taught
- Lesson 3
- How often it is used
- 69 times in running Amadunia — 1.0% of every word written, the 22nd commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 59 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
- big
- More than one
- kabir-kabir — 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 kabir?Is the house big?lessons/lesson-11-being
- Market kabir.The market is big.texts/text-15-sol-lai
- Pencere kabir.The window is big.texts/text-19-kamra-mi
- Harga kabir!The price is big!phrasebook
- dom mi kabirmy big housegrammar/possession
- Dom ta-ta kabir.Their house is big.grammar/pronouns
- Ain ta kabir.Her eyes are big.lessons/lesson-10-a-day
- Dom suda kabir.The house was big.lessons/lesson-11-being
- Dom no kabir.The house is not big.lessons/lesson-14-not-and
- Skola ini kabir.This school is big.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
- Dom ini kabir.This house is big.lessons/lesson-18-comparing-and-joining
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