Word1.5% of everything written
mau
to want
- Where it comes from
- Indonesian/Malay mau
- Group
- Actions
- First taught
- Lesson 2
- How often it is used
- 99 times in running Amadunia — 1.5% of every word written, the 15th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 59 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 want
- More than one
- mau-mau — 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.
- Yu-yu mau ca?Do you all want tea?grammar/pronouns
- Yu mau akua.You want water.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Ta mau ca.He wants tea.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Mi mau pan.I want bread.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Yu mau ca.You want tea.lessons/lesson-07-questions
- Yu mau ca?Do you want tea?lessons/lesson-07-questions
- Ta-ta mau akua.They want water.lessons/lesson-09-pronouns
- Mi mau kula.I want to eat.lessons/lesson-17-wanting-and-able
- Mi mau kimbia.I want to run.texts/text-12-tarik-por-skola
- Mi mau doktor.I want a doctor.phrasebook
- Mi mau ca yu.I want your tea.lessons/lesson-06-possession
- Mi mau ca sasa.I want tea now.lessons/lesson-08-getting-by
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