1. 1蘇門答臘的、蘇門答臘人(的)。中文常見的搭配就是「蘇門答臘虎」「蘇門答臘犀牛」「蘇門答臘紅毛猩猩」——中文直接把地名放前面,跟英文的結構一樣,所以這個字對台灣學生其實不難。

    The adjective for — belonging to that island, or coming from it. You will meet it most often stuck to the front of an animal name, because several animals live only there and nowhere else on earth: the Sumatran tiger, the Sumatran rhino, the Sumatran elephant, the Sumatran orangutan. All of these are in serious danger of dying out, so the word shows up constantly in nature writing and news about conservation. It also describes other things from the island: Sumatran coffee, a Sumatran earthquake, Sumatran forest. The same word can be a noun as well, meaning a person from ("she is a Sumatran"), though in ordinary talk people more often say "she's from ". It always takes a capital S, like all made from place names.

組成Sumatra + -an. The ending -an turns a place into "of that place" or "a person from that place". It is one of the most useful endings you can learn, because it works the same way every time.

同家族的字

  • Americansame -an ending on a place name
  • Koreansame -an ending on a place name
  • Taiwanesesame job as -an, but English uses -ese for many Asian place names instead

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Sumatranadj/suˈmɑː.tɹən/

  • 1

    From, or pertaining to, the island of Sumatra

Sumatrannoun/suˈmɑː.tɹən/

  • 1

    Someone from Sumatra

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