meaning
no, cap; (partícula) [negació de paraula o frase]; (partícula) [crea una pregunta de sí o no]; (número) zero
semantic space · lipamanka
the semantic space of ala contains nothing. But don't be fooled, it isn't void of information. "ala li lukin e kili" can be "nobody's looking at the fruit." "jan li moku e ala" can mean "the person ate nothing." as a modifier, it actually reverses the semantic space of whatever words come before it, which no other content word does. "soweli li alasa ala e kili" can mean "the monky doesn't forage for fruit." An ijo ala is never a type of ijo. as a verb, ala can mean "erase" or "delete."
ku translations
none100, not100, zero100, no94, nothing81, neither60, nor30, hardly28
pu verbatim
ADJECTIVE no, not, zero
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Georgian · არა ara ‘no’
coined by jan Sonja
sitelen pona
alaX mark, a crosslinguistic symbol for negation
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
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sitelen Emosi
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ucsur
U+F1902