Word0.6% of everything written
mama
mother
- Where it comes from
- a nursery word shared across nearly every family on Earth: Mandarin māma, Swahili mama, Spanish mamá, Russian mama, Arabic māmā, Hindi mā̃
- Group
- People
- How often it is used
- 38 times in running Amadunia — 0.6% of every word written, the 40th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 37 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
- mother
- More than one
- mama-mama — 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.
- Salam mama,Dear mother,texts/text-7-surat-por-mama
- Mama ta espera.His mother waits.texts/text-6-seti-din
- Mama lihat anak.The mother watches the child.texts/text-12-tarik-por-skola
- Ya, mama! Bai!Yes, mother! Goodbye!texts/text-12-tarik-por-skola
- Mama mi tabak hao.My mother cooks well.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
- Mama mi leta ca.My mother brings tea.lessons/lesson-25-doing-and-being
- Mama sema: "Kula, plis."Mother says: "Eat, please."texts/text-13-kula-una
- Mama sema: "Kula pan!"Mother says: "Eat bread!"texts/text-15-sol-lai
- Mama ta funga pencere.His mother closes the window.texts/text-18-gusa-in-tarik
- Mama senang. Papa senang.The mother is happy. The father is happy.texts/text-21-uan-umur
- Mama suda tabak corba.Mother cooked soup.texts/text-26-dom-eski
- Mama mi nomu akua.My mother drinks water.texts/text-29-yu-mau-ke
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