Word1.1% of everything written
keci
small
- Where it comes from
- Indonesian/Malay kecil, Turkish küçük
- Group
- Qualities and ideas
- First taught
- Lesson 3
- How often it is used
- 72 times in running Amadunia — 1.1% of every word written, the 19th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 65 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
- small
- More than one
- keci-keci — 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.
- Anak keci.The child is small.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Dom keci.The house is small.lessons/lesson-03-people
- anak ta keciher small childgrammar/possession
- anak ta kecihis small childlessons/lesson-06-possession
- Dom mi keci.My house is small.lessons/lesson-06-possession
- Mano-mano anak keci.The child's hands are small.lessons/lesson-10-a-day
- Kucing mi keci.My cat is small.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
- Anak keci lala.The small child sleeps.texts/text-15-sol-lai
- Kamra mi keci.My room is small.texts/text-19-kamra-mi
- Anak keci kimbia.The small child runs.texts/text-23-kim-paling-hayai
- Din kabir, rat keci.The day is big, the night is small.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Dente anak keci putih.The small child's teeth are white.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
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