Get to know Guarani better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning.
Guarani meaning
- A member of an Amerindian people native to Paraguay and adjacent regions.
- The Tupian language family spoken by this people.
- The Paraguayan Guarani language spoken by this people in Paraguay.
Synonyms of Guarani
Using Guarani
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of an Amerindian people native to Paraguay and adjacent regions. | The Tupian language family spoken by this people. | The Paraguayan Guarani language spoken by this people in Paraguay.
- Useful related words include: paraguayan monetary unit, south american indian, tupi-guarani, tupi-guarani language.
Context around Guarani
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Guarani
- In this selection, "guarani" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 29.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tupi, bring, indigenous, people and populations stand out and add context to how "guarani" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aymara and guarani are recognized and group of guarani kaiowá residents. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "guarani" sits close to words such as abdali, abdelfattah and abdulazeez, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with guarani
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
At least three South American indigenous languages (Quechua, Aymara, and Guarani) are recognized along with Spanish as national languages. (19 words)
This land once belonged to the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people, who depended on the dense forest to hunt and fish. (20 words)
They began also to establish more remote villages peopled only by "civilized" Indians, called Missions, or reductions (see the article on the Guarani people for more details). (27 words)
The 1.5-meter (five-foot) caiman is right at home in the lagoon waters of Jacarepagua, a vast, urban district on Rio de Janeiro’s west side whose name means “Valley of the Caimans” in the Tupi-Guarani Indigenous language. (41 words)
However, by now most such languages have borrowed the numeral system or part of the numeral system of a national or colonial language, though in a few cases (such as Guarani ), a numeral system has been invented internally rather than borrowed. (41 words)
A group of Guarani-Kaiowá residents dance and chant in a traditional prayer ceremony in Guapo’y Mirim Tujury, a village in the municipality of Amambai, in August 2022. (29 words)
Example sentences (7)
The 1.5-meter (five-foot) caiman is right at home in the lagoon waters of Jacarepagua, a vast, urban district on Rio de Janeiro’s west side whose name means “Valley of the Caimans” in the Tupi-Guarani Indigenous language.
A group of Guarani-Kaiowá residents dance and chant in a traditional prayer ceremony in Guapo’y Mirim Tujury, a village in the municipality of Amambai, in August 2022.
This land once belonged to the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people, who depended on the dense forest to hunt and fish.
At least three South American indigenous languages (Quechua, Aymara, and Guarani) are recognized along with Spanish as national languages.
However, by now most such languages have borrowed the numeral system or part of the numeral system of a national or colonial language, though in a few cases (such as Guarani ), a numeral system has been invented internally rather than borrowed.
They began also to establish more remote villages peopled only by "civilized" Indians, called Missions, or reductions (see the article on the Guarani people for more details).
They developed Jesuit reductions to bring Guarani populations together at Spanish missions and protect them from virtual slavery by Spanish settlers, in addition to seeking their conversion to Christianity.