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Chechen
Verb
даа • (daa)
- to eat
Ingush
Verb
даа • (daa)
- to eat
Mongolian
Particle
даа • (daa)
- Final intensifying particle; emphatic particle.
- Тэг л дээ ― Teg l dee ― Do it, then!
- Амттай биз дээ? ― Amttaj biz dee? ― Tastes good, doesn't it?
Inflection
| back vowel | front vowel |
| unrounded | даа
daa | дээ
dee |
| rounded | доо
doo | дөө
döö |
Tuvan
Etymology 1
Cognate with Khakas даа (daa), таа (taa), дее (dee), тее (tee); Shor да, та, Yakut да (da); Southern Altai да (da), та (ta), де (de), те (te), ; Kazakh да (da), де (de); etc.
Pronunciation
Particle
даа • (daa) (emphatic)
- (in the form …-даа, …-даа) both … and … (affirmatively); neither … nor … (negatively)
- (after a conditional verb) even if
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠳ᠋ᠠ (da, “chief”), from Manchu ᡩᠠ (da, “chief”).
Pronunciation
Noun
даа • (daa) (definite accusative дааны, plural даалар)
- short for үгер-даа (üger-daa, “appointed chief of a banner”)
Yakut
Etymology
cognate with Turkmen -da, -dä and Azerbaijani da, də.
Particle
даа • (daa)
- At the beginning of a sentence, expresses general, noncommittal agreement.
- даа, даа ... ― daa, daa ... ― yes, yes ...
- At the end of a sentence, forms a counter-question where a "yes" is expected. Can be translated variously as "isn't it", "you say", and so on. Similar to Japanese ね.
- бараллар даа? ― barallar daa? ― they're leaving, aren't they?
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