Contionary:efi

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Indeyivroplu

Etymology

Unique word stem not directly loaned from another language.

Pronunciation

(Indeyivroplu) IPA: [ˈɛ.fi]

Adverb

efi (Cyrillic эфи)

  1. more; forms comparative
    emso korėr efa štundju dėvje mo.
    "She works more hours than me."
    ma amiğsu nėguttixi silėrz efrava dėvjė deňkarz silšpėrz.
    "My friend unfortunately acted more angry than I thought he would."

Inflection

  • efa
    "more" (adj.)
  • efu
    "increase" (n.)

Usage notes

Prefix this morpheme to the stem of a descriptor word in order to get its comparative form.

Derived terms

  1. efguta
    better
  2. efhofa
    preferred (adj.)
  3. efke
    plus (pre.)
  4. efi
    less (adv.)
  5. efke
    minus (pre.)

Related words

  1. inži
    superlative (adv.)