Haitian Creole/Numbers/Zero to nineteen
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One to twelve
editWrite out the full sentence, with the digit replaced by a word. These are all taken from the Haitian Creole Wikipedia. Try to figure out what they mean using the glossary below.
- Gen 7 jou nan yon semèn.
- Dyamèt li gwo pase 11 fwa dyamèt Latè a.
- Patikil alfa se patikil ki konpoze avèk 2 pwoton ak 2 netwon ki emèt nan yon nwayo atomik ki an dekonpozisyon.
- 1 ogmante sou 1.
- Areye se yon ensèk ki gen 8 pye.
- Nonagòn se yon fòm jewometrik ki gen 9 kote ak 9 ang.
- Ensèk se yon ti bèt ki genyen 6 pye. (This contradicts the one about spiders, I know.)
- Karayib se yon zòn sitye lès Amerik santral ki konstitiye anpil zile nan 3 gwo zòn.
- Konpozit se melanj 2 sibstans.
- Douzèn, Yon kantite ki gen 12 inite nan li.
Zero to nineteen
edit1: youn - 2: de - 3: twa - 4: kat - 5: senk - 6: sis - 7: sèt - 8: uit - 9: nèf - 10: dis 11: onz - 12: douz - 13: trèz - 14: katòz - 15: kenz - 16: sèz - 17: disèt - 18: dizuit - 19: diznèf
Translate
editTranslate using the glossary.
- Gen douz mwa nan yon lane.
- Kenz moun te vini wè mwen.
- Kite m ale de fwa!
Glosary
editYou could probably figure out the meanings of some of these by sounding them out: some sound similar to English.
- ale: go
- Amerik santral: Central America
- an: in
- ang: angle
- areye: spider
- atomik: atomic
- avèk: with, of
- bèt: animal, beast
- dekonpozisyon: decomposition
- douzèn: try to figure this one out for yourself.
- dyamèt: diameter
- emèt: emit
- ensèk: insect
- fòm: form, shape
- fwa: time
- gwo: big
- inite: unit
- jewometrik: geometric
- kantite: quantity
- Karayib: Caribbean
- konpoze: compose(d)
- konpozit: composite
- konstitiye: constitute (of)
- kote: side
- lane: year
- Latè: Earth
- lès: east (of)
- melanj: mixture
- mwa: month
- nan: in, other prepositional meanings may apply
- netwon: neutron
- nonagòn: nonagon
- nwayo: nucleus
- ogmante sou: plus
- patikil: particle
- patikil alfa: alpha particle
- pwoton: proton
- pye: foot
- semèn: week
- sitye: situate(d)
- ti: little
- vini: come
- zile: island
- zòn: zone