tandad

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Jamaican Creole

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Etymology

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Derived from English standard.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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tandad

  1. standard
    • 2014 May 28, Larry Chang, Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language, Gnosophia Publishers, →ISBN, page 63:
      Sens lietli, di Jumiekan LangwijYuunit op a Yunivoersiti a di Wes Indiz tek di Cassidy sistim fi divelopi, kandok pailat prajek ina skuul, ah inchajuusi tu di poblikaz di tandad atagrafi.
      Latterly, the Jamaican Language Unit at the University of the West Indies took the Cassidy system to develop it, conduct pilot projects in schools, and introduce it to the public as standard orthography.

Swedish

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en tandad murslev (a notched trowel)
en tandad kniv (a serrated knife)
ett tandat blad (a toothed leaf)

Etymology

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tand (tooth) +‎ -ad (-ed)

Adjective

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tandad (not comparable)

  1. toothed (having teeth, usually of knives, leaves, wheels, and the like)
    en sabeltandad tiger
    a sabre-toothed tiger
    1. notched
    2. serrated

Declension

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Inflection of tandad
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular tandad
Neuter singular tandat
Plural tandade
Masculine plural3 tandade
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 tandade
All tandade
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

Derived terms

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