Word1.9% of everything written
lai
to come
- Where it comes from
- Chinese lái (来)
- Group
- Actions
- First taught
- Lesson 2
- How often it is used
- 123 times in running Amadunia — 1.9% of every word written, the 7th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 98 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 come
- More than one
- lai-lai — 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.
- Lai sini.Come here.lessons/lesson-10-a-day
- Yamur lai.Rain comes.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
- Pagi lai.Morning comes.texts/text-9-pagi-in-madina
- Auto lai.A car comes.texts/text-9-pagi-in-madina
- Polisi lai.A police officer comes.texts/text-18-gusa-in-tarik
- Anak lai.A child comes.texts/text-21-uan-umur
- Mi lai.I come.texts/text-24-mama-mama-mi
- Yamur lai.It's raining.phrasebook
- Ta-ta suda lai.They came.grammar/pronouns
- Kita lai dom.We come home.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Ta lai dom.She comes home.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Rafiki-rafiki suda lai.The friends came.lessons/lesson-05-plural
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