Word0.8% of everything written
kan
to see
- Where it comes from
- Chinese kàn (看)
- Group
- Actions
- First taught
- Lesson 3
- How often it is used
- 55 times in running Amadunia — 0.8% of every word written, the 27th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 45 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
- to see
- More than one
- kan-kan — 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.
- Mi kan rafiki.I see a friend.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Mi kan anak.I see a child.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Mi kan dom-dom.I see houses.lessons/lesson-05-plural
- Mi kan ta.I see her.lessons/lesson-09-pronouns
- Ta kan mi.She sees me.lessons/lesson-09-pronouns
- Mi kan skola!I see the school!texts/text-12-tarik-por-skola
- Mi kan ta.I see him.texts/text-15-sol-lai
- Anak kan foto.The child sees a photograph.texts/text-15-sol-lai
- Ta-ta kan animal-animal.They look at the animals.texts/text-23-kim-paling-hayai
- Mi kan dom yu.I see your house.grammar/possession
- Kita saufa kan sol.We will see the sun.grammar/pronouns
- Mi kan du sol?Do I see two suns?lessons/lesson-05-plural
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