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Albanian
Etymology
Personal suffix -hna is the Gheg variant of Tosk and Standard Albanian -hem (“I, me”). Compound of mediopassive marker h + -na (“I, me”) personal suffix. Indicating 1st person singular, indicative, present.
See Gheg Albanian -na for more.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-hna
- suffix used for 1st person singular (mediopassive voice) - indicative, present form. Not used for verbs ending with h- (such as shpreh, eh, etc.; in this case suffix -na is used)
- Forms verbs in mediopassive voice from active voice
- • active bâj (“I do, make, appear”) + -hna → mediopassive bâhna (“I become, turn into”)
- (in Tosk & Standard Alb.: bëj → bë[hem])
- • active aorist bôna (“I did, made”) → mediopassive aorist u + bôna (“I became, turned into”)
- (Tosk/Standard: bëra → u + bëra)
- Forms mediopassive verbs from adjectives
- • adjective shkurt (“short”) + o-stem + -hna → mediopassive verb shkurtohna (“I become short(er)”)
- (Tosk/Standard: shkurtoj → shkurto[hem])
- • active aorist shkurtova (“I shortened”) → mediopassive aorist u + shkurtova (“I became short(er)”)
Further reading
- active bëj • "Fjalor Shqip" ('Albanian Dictionary')
- mediopassive bëhem • "Fjalor Shqip" ('Albanian Dictionary')