bacra-taban

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Afar

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8
    Cardinal: bacra-tabán
    Ordinal: bacra-tabanháytu

Etymology

Univerbation of bacrá (“eight”) +‎ tabán (“ten”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baħˌrataˈban/
  • Hyphenation: bac‧ra‧ta‧ban

Noun

bacra-tabán m 

  1. eighty

Usage notes

  • When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:
    Bacra-tabaníh númu. ― Eighty people.
  • When counting, the predicative case is used.

Declension

Declension of bacra-tabán
absolutive bacra-tabán
predicative bacra-tabaná
subjective bacra-tabán
genitive bacra-tabaníh
Postpositioned forms
l-case bacra-tabanál
k-case bacra-tabanák
t-case bacra-tabanát
h-case bacra-tabanáh

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 232
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197
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