Word0.7% of everything written
tarik
road, way
- Where it comes from
- Arabic ṭarīq (طريق), Turkish tarik, Urdu tarīq, Swahili tariki
- Group
- Town and money
- First taught
- Lesson 16
- How often it is used
- 44 times in running Amadunia — 0.7% of every word written, the 33rd commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 39 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
- road, way
- More than one
- tarik-tarik — 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.
- Lihat tarik.Look at the road.texts/text-12-tarik-por-skola
- Tarik ini cang.This road is long.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
- Tarik itu duan.That road is short.lessons/lesson-16-school-and-time
- Polisi in tarik.The police are on the road.lessons/lesson-19-home-and-nature
- Tarik ini muskil.This road is difficult.lessons/lesson-25-doing-and-being
- Tarik kosong sasa.The road is empty now.texts/text-12-tarik-por-skola
- Tarik baru duan.The new road is short.texts/text-18-gusa-in-tarik
- Anda tarik ini.Walk this road.phrasebook
- Hospital in tarik ini.The hospital is on this road.lessons/lesson-24-the-table-and-the-city
- Mi anda in tarik.I walk on the road.texts/text-5-uan
- Yu anda in tarik.You walk on the road.texts/text-5-uan
- Mi anda por tarik.I walk along the road.texts/text-9-pagi-in-madina
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