Word1.1% of everything written
rafiki
friend
- Where it comes from
- Swahili rafiki, Arabic rafīq, Persian rafiq
- Group
- People
- First taught
- Lesson 3
- How often it is used
- 70 times in running Amadunia — 1.1% of every word written, the 21st commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 55 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
- friend
- More than one
- rafiki-rafiki — 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.
- rafiki kitaour friendgrammar/possession
- dom rafikithe friend's housegrammar/possession
- Rafiki sema.The friend speaks.lessons/lesson-03-people
- cok rafikimany friendslessons/lesson-05-plural
- dom-dom rafikithe friend's houseslessons/lesson-06-possession
- berapa rafiki?how many friends?lessons/lesson-07-questions
- Mersi, rafiki!Thanks, friend!lessons/lesson-08-getting-by
- rafiki kita haoour good friendgrammar/possession
- dom rafiki mimy friend's housegrammar/possession
- Mi kan rafiki.I see a friend.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Rafiki nomu ca.The friend drinks tea.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Rafiki-rafiki suda lai.The friends came.lessons/lesson-05-plural
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