hopeless
‘without hope’
hope+-lessPRIV
-less — privative
The same meaning in all five languages
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Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
hope
espéré
आशा
ఆశ
நம்பிக்கை
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native
native
Sanskritic
mixed
native
Hindi
निराशnirāś
आशा+निर्-privative
Telugu
ఆశలేనిāśalēni
ఆశ+-లేనిprivative
Tamil
நம்பிக்கையற்றnampikkaiyaṟṟa
நம்பிக்கை+-அற்றprivative
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01hopeless is an English adjective formed from the stem hope with the suffix -less (privative).3 steps
- rulerule:morphology-chain
- affixaffix:en:-less
- rulerule:segmentation-confidence:1.0
02Its meaning ('without hope') can be approximated as NEG(HAVE(HAVE(WANT, HAVE(GOOD, AFTER)))) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.4 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:WANT
- atomatom:GOOD
- atomatom:AFTER
03Aligned forms: French désespéré (translation equivalent); Hindi निराश (nirāś) (translation equivalent); Tamil நம்பிக்கையற்ற (nampikkaiyaṟṟa) (translation equivalent); Telugu ఆశలేని (āśalēni) (translation equivalent).1 step
- rulerule:alignment