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)

  1. I

See also
Amharic personal pronouns
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
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