French · adjective

malheureux

‘not happy’
mal-PRIV+heureux

mal- — privative

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
unhappy
happy+un-privative
French
malheureux
heureux+mal-privative
Hindi
Telugu
దుఃఖమైనduḥkhamaina
దుఃఖం+-ఐనrelational adjective

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  1. 01malheureux is a French adjective formed from the stem heureux with the prefix mal- (mal-) (privative).3 steps
    • rulerule:morphology-chain
    • affixaffix:fr:mal-
    • rulerule:segmentation-confidence:0.9
  2. 02Its meaning ('not happy') is represented as NEG(HAVE(FEEL, GOOD)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.3 steps
  3. 03Aligned forms: English unhappy (translation equivalent); Hindi नाख़ुश (nāxuš) (translation equivalent); Tamil மகிழ்ச்சியற்ற (makiḻcciyaṟṟa) (translation equivalent); Telugu దుఃఖమైన (duḥkhamaina) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment