Amharic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognates include Ge'ez ሰብእ (säbʾ).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈsəw/
- Hyphenation: ሰው
ሰው • (säw) m (singulative ሰውዬ (säwəyye))
- (collective) man
- (collective) mankind
- (collective) gentleman
Declension[edit]
Possessive forms of ሰው (säw)
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Singular
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Plural
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Formal
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| First person
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ሰዌ (säwe)
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ሰዋችን (säwaččən)
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—
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| Second person
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m
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ሰውህ (säwəh)
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ሰዋችሁ (säwaččəhu)
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ሰውዎ (säwwo)
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| f
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ሰውሽ (säwəš)
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| Third person
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m
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ሰዉ (säwu)
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ሰዋቸው (säwaččäw)
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| f
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ሰውኧ (säwʷa)
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Coordinate terms[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ሰው • (säw)
- anybody, somebody, anyone, someone
- (+ negative) nobody, no-one
References[edit]
- 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
