Rudimentary

Digital cameras aren't as good as rudimentary cameras.

She has a rudimentary grasp of the Berber language.

Yanni's Berber is very rudimentary.

She says the rudimentary shelters are constructed from anything they can find—bits of plastic or clothing—and these are tacked onto wooden branches, which are then covered with straw.

The hamlet, set on a plain and surrounded by spectacular, pine-covered mountains, is a place of crushing poverty and lack of opportunity, home to a single small school, dirt roads that become impassible during the rainy season and rudimentary homes without insulation, proper flooring, water or electricity.

I have only a rudimentary grasp of chemistry.

His grasp of rudimentary English allowed him at least to do the shopping.

His rudimentary driving skills meant that he was a danger on the road.

Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.

Safdar, in his rudimentary ambulance, has been at the frontline of the shifting conflicts consuming his city, placing himself at huge personal risk for very little money.