Word3.2% of everything written
ta
he, she, it — no gender
- Where it comes from
- Chinese tā 他/她/它, one sound for all three
- Group
- People
- How often it is used
- 215 times in running Amadunia — 3.2% of every word written, the 3rd commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 169 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
- he, it, she
- More than one
- ta-ta — 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.
- anak taher child, his childgrammar/possession
- Ta senang.He is happy.texts/text-6-seti-din
- anak ta keciher small childgrammar/possession
- Ta-ta suda lai.They came.grammar/pronouns
- Dom ta-ta kabir.Their house is big.grammar/pronouns
- Ta go dom.She goes home.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Ta mau ca.He wants tea.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Ta lai dom.She comes home.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Ta bil nama.She knows the name.lessons/lesson-03-people
- Ta suda sema.She spoke.lessons/lesson-04-tense
- anak ta kecihis small childlessons/lesson-06-possession
- tri anak taher three childrenlessons/lesson-06-possession
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