Word0.9% of everything written
saufa
future marker (before the verb)
- Where it comes from
- Arabic sawfa (سوف)
- Group
- Grammar particles
- First taught
- Lesson 4
- How often it is used
- 58 times in running Amadunia — 0.9% of every word written, the 23rd commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 38 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
- future marker
- More than one
- saufa-saufa — 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.
- Doktor-doktor saufa sema.The doctors will speak.lessons/lesson-05-plural
- Ca saufa garam.The tea will be hot.lessons/lesson-11-being
- Din saufa garam.The day will be hot.lessons/lesson-11-being
- Yu saufa faham.You will understand.lessons/lesson-13-weather-directions
- Rafiki mi saufa lai.My friend will come.grammar/possession
- Kita saufa kan sol.We will see the sun.grammar/pronouns
- Mi saufa kula pan.I will eat bread.lessons/lesson-04-tense
- Kita saufa go besok.We will go tomorrow.lessons/lesson-04-tense
- Yu saufa lai dom?Will you come home?lessons/lesson-04-tense
- Doktor saufa lai sasa.The doctor will come now.lessons/lesson-08-getting-by
- Mi-mi saufa lai kab?When will we come?lessons/lesson-09-pronouns
- Kita saufa lai sasa.We'll come now.lessons/lesson-09-pronouns
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