Kilo Lingo

#239 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

strange, odd, peculiar

Examples

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That is a very strange matter.

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He looked at me with strange eyes.

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A strange sound came from the room.

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She has a strange habit.

strange, .

It is strange that he did not come.

is odd or peculiar - the thing that makes you raise an eyebrow. is strange in the other English sense: foreign, unfamiliar, belonging to someone else. So a stranger at the door is a , and a o is a weirdo, which is a rather different report to give the police. The impersonal strange, ... with the adverb is the natural opening for an observation, and o covers strangeness as a quality.

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This word is part of lesson 5.