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Amharic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dəbˈdabːe/
- Hyphenation: ደብ‧ዳ‧ቤ
Noun
ደብዳቤ • (däbdabbe) m
- letter (written communication)
Declension
Definiteness forms of ደብዳቤ (däbdabbe)
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Masculine
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| Indefinite
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ደብዳቤ (däbdabbe)
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| Definite subject
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ደብዳቤው (däbdabbew)
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| Definite object
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ደብዳቤውን (däbdabbewən)
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| General object
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ደብዳቤን (däbdabben)
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Possessive forms of ደብዳቤ (däbdabbe)
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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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ደብዳቤዬ (däbdabbeye)
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ደብዳቤያችን (däbdabbeyaččən)
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| Second person
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m
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ደብዳቤህ (däbdabbeh)
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ደብዳቤያችሁ (däbdabbeyaččəhu)
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ደብዳቤዎ (däbdabbewo)
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ደብዳቤሽ (däbdabbeš)
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| Third person
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m
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ደብዳቤው (däbdabbew)
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ደብዳቤያቸው (däbdabbeyaččäw)
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| f
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ደብዳቤዋ (däbdabbewa)
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References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ደብዳቤ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1789
- Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 44