Word1.1% of everything written
kula
to eat
- Where it comes from
- Swahili kula, Arabic akala
- Group
- Actions
- First taught
- Lesson 2
- How often it is used
- 72 times in running Amadunia — 1.1% of every word written, the 20th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 47 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 eat
- More than one
- kula-kula — 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.
- Kula!Eat!lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
- Kula pan.Eat bread.lessons/lesson-10-a-day
- Mi kula pan.I eat bread.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Kita kula una.We eat together.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Anak-anak kula pan.The children eat bread.lessons/lesson-05-plural
- Rafiki-rafiki suda kula.The friends ate.lessons/lesson-05-plural
- Yu kula ke?What do you eat?lessons/lesson-07-questions
- Mi mau kula.I want to eat.lessons/lesson-17-wanting-and-able
- Yu kula pan.You eat bread.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
- Ta kula tena.He eats again.texts/text-6-seti-din
- Kula in bage.Eat in the garden.texts/text-27-kalima-por-anak-anak
- Mi suda kula pan.I ate bread.lessons/lesson-04-tense
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