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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