Hindi · adjective

बेकार

bekār‘of no use’
बे-PRIV+कार

बे- — privative

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
useless
use+-lessprivative
French
inutile
utile+in-privative
Hindi
बेकारbekār
कार+बे-privative
Telugu
వ్యర్థంvyarthaṁ
వ్యర్థం

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  1. 01बेकार (bekār) is a Hindi adjective formed from the stem कार with the prefix बे- (be-) (privative).3 steps
    • rulerule:morphology-chain
    • affixaffix:hi:be-
    • rulerule:segmentation-confidence:1.0
  2. 02Its meaning ('of no use') can be approximated as NEG(HAVE(GOOD, DO)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.3 steps
  3. 03Aligned forms: English useless (translation equivalent); French inutile (translation equivalent); Tamil பயனற்ற (payaṉaṟṟa) (translation equivalent); Telugu వ్యర్థం (vyarthaṁ) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment