Word3.6% of everything written
yu
you — one form for everyone
- Where it comes from
- English you
- Group
- People
- How often it is used
- 240 times in running Amadunia — 3.6% of every word written, the 2nd commonest root. Counted upstream over the lessons, texts and phrasebook; the whole curve.
- In the published corpus
- 149 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
- you
- More than one
- yu-yu — 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.
- nama yuyour namegrammar/possession
- Yu faham?Do you understand?lessons/lesson-13-weather-directions
- Yu go.You go.lessons/lesson-26-telling-and-answering
- Anak yuYour childtexts/text-7-surat-por-mama
- Yu espera.You wait.texts/text-8-kaifa-suru-ca
- Yu hao!You are good!phrasebook
- Yu-yu mau ca?Do you all want tea?grammar/pronouns
- Yu mau akua.You want water.lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- Yu beri akua?Will you give water?lessons/lesson-02-food-and-home
- rafiki yu haoyour good friendlessons/lesson-06-possession
- anak rafiki yuyour friend's childlessons/lesson-06-possession
- Nama rafiki yu?Your friend's name?lessons/lesson-06-possession
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