ደብዳቤ
Amharic
| Root |
|---|
| ደ-በ-ደ-በ (dä-bä-dä-bä) |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dəbˈdabːe/
- Hyphenation: ደብ‧ዳ‧ቤ
Noun
ደብዳቤ • (däbdabbe) m
- letter (written communication)
Declension
| masculine | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | ደብዳቤ (däbdabbe) |
| definite subject | ደብዳቤው (däbdabbew) |
| definite object | ደብዳቤውን (däbdabbewən) |
| general object | ደብዳቤን (däbdabben) |
| singular | plural | formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | ደብዳቤዬ (däbdabbeye) | ደብዳቤያችን (däbdabbeyaččən) | — | |
| second person | m | ደብዳቤህ (däbdabbeh) | ደብዳቤያችሁ (däbdabbeyaččəhu) | ደብዳቤዎ (däbdabbewo) |
| f | ደብዳቤሽ (däbdabbeš) | |||
| third person | m | ደብዳቤው (däbdabbew) | ደብዳቤያቸው (däbdabbeyaččäw) | |
| f | ደብዳቤዋ (däbdabbewa) | |||
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ደብዳቤ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1789
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 44