Word1.1% of everything written
kita
we, including you — see grammar/pronouns.md
- Where it comes from
- Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog
- Group
- People
- How often it is used
- 73 times in running Amadunia — 1.1% of every word written, the 18th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 52 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
- we
- More than one
- kita-kita — 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.
- rafiki kitaour friendgrammar/possession
- Kita otur.We sit.texts/text-17-tren-aur-farasi
- rafiki kita haoour good friendgrammar/possession
- Kita lai dom.We come home.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Kita kula una.We eat together.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Kita es familia.We are a family.lessons/lesson-11-being
- Kita rabota cok.We work a lot.lessons/lesson-18-comparing-and-joining
- Kita punya sansi.We have a chance.texts/text-10-mila-tahun
- Kita otur una.We sit together.texts/text-13-kula-una
- Kita go market.We go to the market.texts/text-15-sol-lai
- Kita go dom.We go home.texts/text-15-sol-lai
- Kita dengar musik.We listen to music.texts/text-17-tren-aur-farasi
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