Word0.8% of everything written
punya
to have
- Where it comes from
- Indonesian/Malay punya
- Group
- Actions
- First taught
- Lesson 19
- How often it is used
- 54 times in running Amadunia — 0.8% of every word written, the 28th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 47 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 have
- More than one
- punya-punya — 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 punya korku.I have fear.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
- Ta punya gusa.She has anger.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
- Mi punya sabar.I have patience.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
- Mi punya umid.I have hope.lessons/lesson-21-things-and-ideas
- Mi punya kalima.I have words.texts/text-5-uan
- Yu punya kalima.You have words.texts/text-5-uan
- Kita punya sansi.We have a chance.texts/text-10-mila-tahun
- Sofer punya gusa.The driver has anger.texts/text-18-gusa-in-tarik
- Yu punya familia?Do you have a family?phrasebook
- Mualim daima punya sabar.A teacher always has patience.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
- Sofer punya auto merah.The driver has a red car.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
- Amadunia punya tri-sen kalima.Amadunia has 300 words.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
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