man
part of speech
noun (man, men); verb (man, mans, manned, manning); interjection (man!)
meaning for a pupil
1) A man is a grown-up male person. tree →
2) Man can mean people in general (old use): «Man has walked on the Moon.» tree →
3) To man something is to work at it or be in charge of it: man the desk. tree →
4) In games, a man is a piece: a chess man. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It can mean a male, a person, or all people, as the first human in Genesis. Interpretation: Tradition sees the first human as made in God's image, and calls each person a world. In the primary lessons: In maths a man is a person in the story; men are counted in groups (men and women add to make people) or work at a rate. In everyday life: «Ladies and gentlemen», a snowman, a postman, a fireman (now often firefighter). In stories men are characters: the old man, a wise man.
examples
- or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, (Torah LEV.21.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?' (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause. (Torah EXO.23.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- These are the men of Recah. (Writings 1CH.4.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- These things did the three mighty men. (Prophets 2SA.23.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- The men of Netophah, fifty and six. (Writings EZR.2.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- A man buys 3 shirts. tree →
- 5 men can paint a house in 4 days. tree →
- There are 12 men and 15 women. tree →
- How many people in all? tree →
- The man at the shop gave me my change. tree →
- My dad is a tall man with a beard. tree →
- We built a snowman in the garden. tree →
- Two men manned the lifeboat. tree →
- The old man fed the ducks every morning. tree →
- THE SHIPWRECKED MAN AND THE SEA tree →
note
Irregular plural: «men» (one man, two men; not «mans»). «Mankind» means all people; many now say «people» or «humankind». Many job words now avoid «-man»: firefighter, police officer, mail carrier. Maths: groups of men and women add. Trap: «men working together» may need rates, not simple adding.
In the corpora
- And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
- And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.
- And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;
- Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «man» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.