Kilo Lingo

# of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

a fraction of; one part in

Examples

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I ate half of the bread.

o .

Only a third of the money is left.

o .

A quarter of the town is still asleep.

on .

He lost a tenth of his land.

sufiĉas .

Half an hour is enough for the work.

-on- cuts a numeral into a fraction. gives , gives o, gives o, gives o, cent gives o. The noun form in -o names the part, describes it and e says how something was done. Whatever the fraction is a fraction of arrives with , as in .

You already own from the core word list, so you have been using the machinery for a while without meeting the suffix.

Its mirror is --, and they differ by three letters in the middle of a word, which is where errors live. is half as much. a is twice as much. Read the whole suffix before you commit to a number.

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