cleverness
‘quickness of thought’
clever+-nessST
-ness — abstract state
The same meaning in all five languages
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clever
habile
चालाक
తెలివి
புத்திசாலி
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English
cleverness
clever+-nessabstract state
Hindi
चालाकीcālākī
चालाक+-ईabstract state
Telugu
తెలివిtelivi
తెలివి
Tamil
புத்திசாலித்தனம்putticālittaṉam
புத்திசாலி+-தனம்abstract state
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01cleverness is an English noun formed from the stem clever with the suffix -ness (abstract state).3 steps
- rulerule:morphology-chain
- affixaffix:en:-ness
- rulerule:segmentation-confidence:1.0
02Its meaning ('quickness of thought') is represented as STATE_OF(HAVE(THINK, GOOD)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.3 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:THINK
- atomatom:GOOD
03Aligned forms: French habileté (translation equivalent); Hindi चालाकी (cālākī) (translation equivalent); Tamil புத்திசாலித்தனம் (putticālittaṉam) (translation equivalent); Telugu తెలివి (telivi) (translation equivalent).1 step
- rulerule:alignment