safi

clean

Where it comes from

Arabic ṣāfī (صافي), Swahili safi, Hindi/Urdu sāf, Turkish saf

Group

Qualities and ideas

First taught

Lesson 25

In the published corpus

4 of the 1321 glossed sentence pairs use it. Only the sentences that carry an English translation are in the corpus, and it is the measure you can check for yourself.

Looked up in English as

clean

More than one

safi-safi — the noun said twice, joined by a hyphen. Nothing is added and nothing inside the word changes, so nothing can become irregular. The rule.

Sentences that use it.

Every one written by hand and checked against the rules. Shortest first.

• Akua ini safi.This water is clean.lessons/lesson-25-doing-and-being
• Piring safi in tabla.The clean plates are on the table.lessons/lesson-25-doing-and-being
• Dom mi keci aur safi.My house is small and clean.texts/text-7-surat-por-mama
• Dom mi baru lebi kabir aur lebi safi.My new house is bigger and cleaner.texts/text-26-dom-eski

You can also put English in and get Amadunia out, or take the whole corpus as a file.

The rest of the shelf.

• amanipeace
• amikdeep
• arteart
• asaneasy
• bahayadanger
• baidfar
• baridcold
• barunew
• benartrue
• canglong
• cokmany, much
• daimaalways

All 300 roots, or the source table.