Kilo Lingo

#418 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

noise, din

Examples

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The noise of the street woke me.

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We heard a great noise in the courtyard.

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The children made a lot of noise.

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A sudden noise frightened the horse.

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He worked all night without noise.

is noise you did not ask for. is neutral - a sound, any sound - while carries the irritation with it, which is why a violin makes and the neighbours make . The verb brui means to make a racket and is intransitive, so a whole English phrase collapses into one word: bruas. From there you get brua for noisy, a for a person who cannot help it, and senbrua for the blessed opposite. Figuratively, a scandal that makes waves just as it does in English.

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This word is part of lesson 9.