Classroom:The word KU in Runyankore-Rukiga
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This page examines the grammatical function of the word "ku" in Runyankore-Rukiga. The data is the result of typecraft's phrase search done on March 18, 2011.
In Runyankore-Rukiga,the word KU appears in both initial and medial positions of a sentence.
KU- Initial position [[1]]
KU- Medial position [[2]]
KU as a word in Runyankore-Rukiga can work as:
1. A conjunction [[3]]
2. A complementizer [[4]]
3. An adverb [[5]]
The word KU can have at least three meanings, thaey are:
WHEN [[6]]
THAT [[7]]
IF [[8]]
Lack of meaning [[9]]
The tables that follow show the occurrences found in the 55 annotated phrases of Runyankore-Rukiga:
| MEANING | NUMBER OF TOKENS |
| When | 36 |
| That | 06 |
| If | 01 |
| Lack | 12 |
"Ku mening WHEN"
| POS tag | NUMBER OF TOKENS |
| CONJ | 30 |
| COMP | 03 |
| REL | 01 |
| Lack | 03 |
"KU meaning THAT"
| POS tag | NUMBER OF TOKENS |
| CONJ | 04 |
| COMP | 01 |
| ADV | 01 |
"KU meaning IF"
| POS tag | NUMBER OF TOKENS |
| COMP | 01 |
"KU lacking meaning"
| POS tag | NUMBER OF TOKENS |
| CONJ | 04 |
| ADV | 01 |
| lacking tag | 07 |