Wordin 14 sentences
kanis
dog
- Where it comes from
- Latin canis — global through canine, Italian cane, Spanish can, French chien
- Group
- Animals and plants
- First taught
- Lesson 22
- In the published corpus
- 14 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.
- Looked up in English as
- dog
- More than one
- kanis-kanis — 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.
- Kanis hayai.The dog is fast.texts/text-23-kim-paling-hayai
- No leta kanis.Do not bring a dog.texts/text-27-kalima-por-anak-anak
- Kanis kimbia in hutan.The dog runs in the forest.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
- Mi punya du kanis.I have two dogs.lessons/lesson-25-doing-and-being
- Kucing hayai kadar kanis.The cat is as fast as the dog.texts/text-23-kim-paling-hayai
- Kanis mi siya aur keci.My dog is black and small.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
- Farasi lebi kabir dari kanis.A horse is bigger than a dog.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
- Kanis no bisa kara masal.A dog cannot read a story.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
- Kanis keci lai una ta-ta.A small dog comes with them.texts/story-2-safari-por-pahar
- Kanis ta lai una ta.His dog comes with him.texts/text-13-kula-una
- Farasi lebi hayai dari kanis.The horse is faster than the dog.texts/text-23-kim-paling-hayai
- Kanis mi lebi hafif dari farasi yu.My dog is lighter than your horse.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
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