1) adj. certain
2) n. certainty
CodeOriginal scriptPhonetic transcript (IPA) Original scriptPhonetic transcript (IPA)**
hua | | | | |
wu | | | | |
yue | | | | |
hak | | | | |
min | | | | |
vie | | | | |
kor | | | | |
jpn | 確か | taʃika | | |
que | | | | |
esl | | | | |
por | | | | |
ita | | | | |
fra | certain | seʀtẽ | certitude | seʀtityd |
eng | certain | | certainty | |
deu | | | | |
pol | | | | |
ukr | | | | |
rus | | | | |
hun | | | | |
ell | | | | |
tur | | | | |
ara | | | | |
per | | | | |
urd | | | | |
hin | | | | |
pan | | | | |
ben | | | | |
guj | | | | |
mar | | | | |
kan | | | | |
tel | | | | |
tam | | | | |
mya | | | | |
tai | | | | |
ind | | | | |
jav | | | | |
tgl | | | | |
amh | | | | |
orm | | | | |
man | | | | |
ful | | | | |
hau | | | | |
yor | | | | |
ibo | | | | |
ktu | | | | |
rwa | | | | |
swa | | | | |
zul | | | | |
Comments (4)
Anonymous said
at 1:51 pm on Apr 12, 2006
How come there is adjective and adverb in this table? Normally there is adjective (which really is verb in some languages) and noun in adjective tables.
Anonymous said
at 1:53 pm on Apr 12, 2006
I wasn't thinking enough, I guess... I'll change the second column to "certainty."
Anonymous said
at 2:40 pm on Apr 12, 2006
I guess there are some cases where adverbs can be used, such as "often" and "seldom". Maybe there's no corresponding noun to them either (oftenness?)...
Anonymous said
at 4:03 pm on Apr 12, 2006
Yes, this is one of the limitations of using English as the base language. In the case above, though, I think "often" is the same as "frequent," and actually is related conceptually to "many," isn't it? Also, I guess "seldom" is conceptually related to "few." But it's all very complicated. We're sort of going through the same process that Roget went through when developing his thesaurus.
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