yané
Nheengatu
Pronoun
yané
- (second-class) first-person plural personal pronoun (we, us, our)
- Yané akanhemu yaikú nhaãsé yané kirá yaikú.
- We are scared because we are fat.
- Aintá uputari upitá yané irũmu.
- They want to stay with us.
- Yané manha uwiké uka pisasú upé.
- Our mother enters the new house.
- 2017, Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, Marcel Twardowsky Ávila, Histórias em língua geral da Amazônia (nheengatu ou tupi moderno), →ISBN, page 78:
- — Umanú ramé awá yasaisú waá, yané rikwesawa ti ana urikú nẽ yepé purangasawa.
- — When the one we love dies, our life no longer has any beauty.
Usage notes
- As a second-class pronoun, yané is used as the subject of a sentence when its verb is a second-class one (those verbs are sometimes referred to as adjectives). The personal pronoun yané is also used when governed by any postposition with the exception of arama and supé. Finally, yané is used as a possessive pronoun as well.
See also
| singular | first-class pronoun | second-class pronoun |
|---|---|---|
| first-person | ixé | se |
| second-person | indé | ne |
| third-person | aé | i |
| plural | first-class pronoun | second-class pronoun |
| first-person | yandé | yané |
| second-person | penhẽ | pe |
| third-person | aintá (or tá) | aintá (or tá) |
References
- ÁVILA, Marcel Twardowsky (2021) Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, page 851
- DA CRUZ, Aline (2011) Fonologia e gramática do nheengatu: a língua geral falada pelos povos baré, warekena e baniwa, Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, →ISBN, page 41
- NAVARRO, Eduardo de Almeida (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica, 2nd edition, →ISBN, pages 11 and 110
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