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Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *mann-. Cognates include Ge'ez መኑ (männu) and Arabic مَنْ (man).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈman/
- Hyphenation: ማን
Pronoun
ማን • (man)
- who? whom?
Derived terms
See also
Amharic interrogative pronouns
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singular
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plural
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subject
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object
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subject
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object
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animate
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ማን (man) |
ማንን (mannən), ማነን (mannän) ማን (man) |
ማን፡ማን (man man), እነማን (ʾənnäman) ማን (man) |
ማንን (mannən), ማነን (mannän) ማን (man)
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inanimate
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ምን (mən) |
ምን፡ምን (mən mən) ምንና፡ምን (mənənna mən) ምኖች (mənočč)
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References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ማን”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 22