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foreign
/fo-rən/
 
adj.
 
1.
Def.: puun te lein ne nasud wey ke diyè te lein ne nasud
Someone or something foreign comes from another country or is in another country.
The shop sells many foreign imports.
I would like to learn a foreign language such as German.
 
adj.
 
2.
Def.: iyam
MS: iyam
If something is foreign to you, it is new to you, or you don't understand it because you have not experienced it.
The hospital environment was very foreign to him, because he had never been in a large hospital before.
 
adj.
 
3.
Def.: nakatahù diyè te kenè ne eleg ne egkatahuan
If an object is foreign, it is in a place where it should not be.
There was a foreign body in his coffee: a small stone which had fallen in.
Sem.Dom.: GSL0626-0650
Status: ready

Last updated: 18/Jan/2012