suda

past marker (before the verb)

Where it comes from

Indonesian/Malay sudah

Group

Grammar particles

First taught

Lesson 4

How often it is used

107 times in running Amadunia — 1.6% of every word written, the 12th commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.

In the published corpus

82 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

past marker

More than one

suda-suda — 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.

• Ta-ta suda lai.They came.grammar/pronouns
• Ta suda sema.She spoke.lessons/lesson-04-tense
• Rafiki-rafiki suda lai.The friends came.lessons/lesson-05-plural
• Rafiki-rafiki suda kula.The friends ate.lessons/lesson-05-plural
• Dom suda kabir.The house was big.lessons/lesson-11-being
• Ta-ta suda sini.They were here.lessons/lesson-11-being
• Anak suda kara.The child read.lessons/lesson-12-colors-directions
• Mi suda studi.I learned.lessons/lesson-13-weather-directions
• Mi suda unut.I forgot.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
• Auto suda go.The car has gone.texts/text-12-tarik-por-skola
• Papa suda kanta.Father sang.texts/text-26-dom-eski
• Mi suda kula pan.I ate bread.lessons/lesson-04-tense

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

The rest of the shelf.

• agarif
• aurand
• esis, am, are — before a noun predicate only; see grammar/copula.md
• oor
• saufafuture marker (before the verb)

All 300 roots, or the source table.