Word1.7% of everything written
no
no; not — before the predicate, see grammar/negation.md
- Where it comes from
- the na/ne root: Spanish/Italian no, English no/not, Latin non, Russian ne, Polish nie, Sanskrit/Hindi na, Persian na-
- Group
- Greetings and basics
- First taught
- Lesson 1
- How often it is used
- 115 times in running Amadunia — 1.7% of every word written, the 10th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 101 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
- no, not
- More than one
- no-no — 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.
- — No.I don't.lessons/lesson-15-pointing-placing
- No go.Do not go.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
- No kimbia.Do not run.texts/text-12-tarik-por-skola
- Dom no kabir.The house is not big.lessons/lesson-14-not-and
- Mi no sini.I am not here.lessons/lesson-14-not-and
- Mi no faham.I do not understand.lessons/lesson-14-not-and
- No es ca.There is no tea.lessons/lesson-18-comparing-and-joining
- No lala sasa.Do not sleep now.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
- No kimbia hayai.Do not run fast.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
- Doktor respon: "No."The doctor answers: "No."texts/text-6-seti-din
- Ta no bimar.He is not ill.texts/text-6-seti-din
- No es korku.There is no fear.texts/text-7-surat-por-mama
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