ሰው

Amharic

Etymology

Cognates include Ge'ez ሰብእ (säbʾ).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsəw/
  • Hyphenation: ሰው

Noun

ሰው • (säw) m (singulative ሰውዬ (säwəyye))

  1. (collective) man
  2. (collective) mankind
  3. (collective) gentleman

Declension
Possessive forms of ሰው (säw)
Singular Plural Formal
First person ሰዌ (säwe) ሰዋችን (säwaččən) —
Second person m ሰውህ (säwəh) ሰዋችሁ (säwaččəhu) ሰውዎ (säwwo)
f ሰውሽ (säwəš)
Third person m ሰዉ (säwu) ሰዋቸው (säwaččäw)
f ሰውኧ (säwʷa)

Coordinate terms
  • (man): ሴት (set, “woman”)

Pronoun

ሰው • (säw)

  1. anybody, somebody, anyone, someone
  2. (+ negative) nobody, no-one

References
  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሰው”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 36
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