Start with both hands in '1' handshapes in front of your chest, with your index fingers pointing towards each other. Move your hands outward and apart while making a wavy, alternating up-and-down motion. The sign ends with your hands apart and your index fingers pointing forward or slightly outward.
To express this, you would sign 'store', 'sell', and 'shoe', followed by the sign for 'variety'. Using 'variety' here perfectly captures the idea of a wide selection, showing that the store offers many different styles, colors, and sizes of shoes.
Start by signing 'I', 'like', and 'music', and then finish the sentence with the sign for 'variety'. This clearly indicates that you enjoy many different genres and styles, using the wavy movement to emphasize the diverse range of your musical tastes.
After signing 'we' and 'plant', sign 'flower', and then use the sign for 'variety'. This is a highly efficient way to show that you planted many different types of flowers, adding rich descriptive detail to your sentence without needing to list every single species.
To express this, you would sign 'store', 'sell', and 'shoe', followed by the sign for 'variety'. Using 'variety' here perfectly captures the idea of a wide selection, showing that the store offers many different styles, colors, and sizes of shoes.
Start by signing 'I', 'like', and 'music', and then finish the sentence with the sign for 'variety'. This clearly indicates that you enjoy many different genres and styles, using the wavy movement to emphasize the diverse range of your musical tastes.
After signing 'we' and 'plant', sign 'flower', and then use the sign for 'variety'. This is a highly efficient way to show that you planted many different types of flowers, adding rich descriptive detail to your sentence without needing to list every single species.
Both signs use the '1' handshape and move apart. However, 'different' is typically a single, crisp movement pulling the hands apart, while 'variety' uses a continuous, wavy up-and-down motion as the hands separate to show a range of differences.
Yes! In American Sign Language, the exact same sign is used for the concepts of 'variety', 'various', and 'diverse'. The specific English translation will depend on the context of your sentence and the surrounding signs.
Generally, you should move your hands just past the width of your shoulders. However, you can use a larger, more exaggerated movement to emphasize a very large or impressive variety, or a smaller movement for a limited variety.
