Word10.0% of everything written
mi
I, me
- Where it comes from
- Spanish/Italian mi, English me, Swahili mimi
- Group
- People
- How often it is used
- 664 times in running Amadunia — 10.0% of every word written, the 1st commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 448 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
- i, me
- More than one
- mi-mi — 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.
- Mi sini.I am here.grammar/copula
- dom mimy housegrammar/possession
- anak-anak mimy childrenlessons/lesson-06-possession
- Mi kara.I read.lessons/lesson-12-colors-directions
- Mi fikir.I think.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
- Mi bimar.I am sick.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
- Mi senang.I am happy.texts/text-9-pagi-in-madina
- Mi lai.I come.texts/text-24-mama-mama-mi
- Mi es doktor.I am a doctor.grammar/copula
- dom mi kabirmy big housegrammar/possession
- dom rafiki mimy friend's housegrammar/possession
- Mi kula pan.I eat bread.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
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