libro

book

Where it comes from

Spanish/Italian libro, Portuguese livro, French livre — global through library

Group

Already-global loans

First taught

Lesson 16

How often it is used

47 times in running Amadunia — 0.7% of every word written, the 30th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.

In the published corpus

38 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

book

More than one

libro-libro — the noun said twice, joined by a hyphen. Nothing is added and nothing inside the word changes, so nothing can become irregular. The rule.

Sentences that use it.

Every one written by hand and checked against the rules. Shortest first.

• Libro ini sundar.This book is beautiful.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
• Mi buka libro.I open the book.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
• Mi funga libro.I close the book.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
• Lebi libro, plis!More books, please!lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
• Libro in tabla.The book is on the table.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
• Funga libro aur otur.Close the book and sit.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
• Kita lasim funga libro.We must close the book.lessons/lesson-17-wanting-and-able
• Mi kara hao libro.I read a book well.lessons/lesson-18-comparing-and-joining
• Mi kara libro hao.I read a good book.lessons/lesson-18-comparing-and-joining
• Mualim daima kara libro.The teacher always reads books.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
• Mi punya sis libro.I have six books.lessons/lesson-21-things-and-ideas
• Kara hao libro ini.Read this book well.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering

You can also put English in and get Amadunia out, or take the whole corpus as a file.

The rest of the shelf.

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All 300 roots, or the source table.