እኔ
Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ʔana. Cognates include Ge'ez አነ (ʾanä) and Arabic أَنَا (ʔanā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)ɨne/
- Hyphenation: እ‧ኔ
Audio: (file)
Pronoun
እኔ • (ʾəne)
See also
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | f | m | f | ||
| familiar singular | እኔ (ʾəne) | አንተ (ʾantä) | አንቺ (ʾanči) | እሱ (ʾəssu) እርሱ (ʾərsu) |
እሷ (ʾəssʷa) እርሷ (ʾərsʷa) |
| plural | እኛ (ʾəñña) | እናንተ (ʾənnantä) እናንት (ʾənnantə)1) |
እነሱ (ʾənnässu) እነርሱ (ʾənnärsu) | ||
| formal singular | — | እስዎ (ʾəssəwo) እርስዎ (ʾərsəwo) አንቱ (ʾantu)1) |
እሳቸው (ʾəssaččäw) እርሳቸው (ʾərsaččäw) | ||
1) rare
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “እኔ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 17