yalan

lie, falsehood

Where it comes from

Turkish yalan, Azeri yalan, Turkmen ýalan

Group

Qualities and ideas

First taught

Lesson 22

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

falsehood, lie

More than one

yalan-yalan — 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.

• Habari itu es yalan.That news is a lie.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
• Mi no sema yalan.I do not tell lies.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
• Mimpi mi es yalan o benar?Is my dream a lie or true?lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
• — Mi sema benar daima. Mi es tacir. Mi no bisa sema yalan.I always tell the truth. I am a merchant. I cannot tell lies.texts/text-4-in-madina-baru

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.