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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ena"

Catalan

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

ena f (plural enes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter N.

Cavineña

Etymology

The e- is an obligatory dummy prefix taken by some nouns (namely, those in the e-class) in Cavineña.

Noun

ena

  1. water
    • 2008, Antoine Guillaume, A Grammar of Cavineña, →ISBN:
      Roberto-ra e-na taru-ya.
      Roberto-ERG NPF-water stir-IMPFV
      Roberto is stirring the water.

References

  • Antoine Guillaume, A Grammar of Cavineña (2008, →ISBN

Chuukese

Determiner

ena (plural ekkana)

  1. that

Ese Ejja

Noun

ena

  1. water

References

  • José Alvarez Fernández, Vocabulario español-huarayo (2008), page 94

Esperanto

Etymology

From en (“in, within, inside”) +‎ -a (adjectival ending).

Adjective

ena (accusative singular enan, plural enaj, accusative plural enajn)

  1. interior, internal, inner

Antonyms

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin hebdomas. Compare Romansch emna.

Noun

ena f (plural enes)

  1. week

Synonyms

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French il y en a.

Pronunciation

Verb

ena (medial form ena)

  1. to have
  2. (impersonal) there is; there are

Nupe

Etymology 1

Compare Yoruba iná, uná and Igala úná.

Pronunciation

Noun

ena (plural enazhì)

  1. fire
  2. light

Etymology 2

Compare with Gbari ena (“goat”), perhaps related to Yoruba ẹran (“animal, meat”)

Pronunciation

Noun

ena (plural enazhì)

  1. mammal

Etymology 3

Compare Yoruba ọnà.

Pronunciation

Noun

enà (plural enàzhì)

  1. artistic design; embroidery; engraving

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

Adjective

ena

  1. this

Declension

Declension table of "ena" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingular
Accusative (second)enaṃ
Declension table of "enā" (feminine)
Case \ NumberSingular
Accusative (second)enaṃ
Declension table of "ena" (neuter)
Case \ NumberSingular
Accusative (second)enaṃ

Derived terms

  • enā (“this one”)

Pronoun

ena m

  1. this

Declension

Declension table of "ena" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingular
Accusative (second)enaṃ

Pronoun

ena n

  1. this

Declension

Declension table of "ena" (neuter)
Case \ NumberSingular
Accusative (second)enaṃ

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *e-na. Cognates include Tahitian enā and Maori ēnā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈe.na/
  • Hyphenation: e‧na

Determiner

ena

  1. this, that (near the spoken to)
    Te vaka ena. ― That canoe (near you).
  2. next, following
    Matahiti ena. ― Next year.

See also

Rapa Nui demonstratives
Demonstrative determiners
Neutral Proximal Medial Distal
tū, hū1) nei, nī2) nā rā
Postnuclear demonstratives
Neutral Proximal Medial Distal
— nei ena era
Demonstrative pronouns
Neutral Proximal Medial Distal
ira nei nā rā
Demonstrative locationals
Neutral Proximal Medial Distal
— nei nā rā
1) Emphatic
2) Rare

References

  • Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 145
  • Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 194

Slovene

Pronunciation

Numeral

êna

  1. one

Usage notes

This is the usual form used when counting or reciting numbers.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ena. Cognate with Danish ene, Norwegian Bokmål ene, Norwegian Nynorsk eine, eina, German einen. Equivalent to en (“one”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Pronoun

ena

  1. one; definite of en
    Jag måste välja den ena eller den andra.
    I must choose one or the other.
  2. (dialectal) ones; plural form of en
    Ni var ena lustiga ena!
    You are some funny ones!

Verb

ena (present enar, preterite enade, supine enat, imperative ena)

  1. to unite (bring about agreement among the members of a group)
    Han enade det splittrade landet
    He united the divided country

Usage notes

  • See also enas, which is a separate deponent verb (though with a meaning very close to the expected one): "De enades" means "they came to an agreement" rather than "they were united (by some third party)."
  • For uniting separate entities, see förena.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ena (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive ena enas
Supine enat enats
Imperative ena —
Imper. plural1 enen —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative enar enade enas enades
Ind. plural1 ena enade enas enades
Subjunctive2 ene enade enes enades
Participles
Present participle enande
Past participle enad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

Further reading

Ternate

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ena (subject clitic i, possessive prefix ma, Jawi اين)

  1. (for non-human groups) third-person plural pronoun, they

See also

Ternate personal pronouns
independent subject proclitic possessive
Informal Formal
1st person singular ngori fangarem, fajaruf to ri
2nd person singular ngana ngoni, jou ngoni no ni
3rd person singular unam, minaf om, mof, inh im, mif, manh
1st person plural inclusive ngone fo na, nga
1st person plural exclusive ngomi fangare ngomim, fajaru ngomif, fara ngomi1 mi mi, mia
2nd person plural ngoni ni na, nia
3rd person plural anah, enanh ih, nh, yoh, †, yanh, † nah, ngah, manh
  • unmarked pronouns are gender non-specific
  • m - masculine, f - feminine, h - human, nh - non-human
  • 1 - for mixed-gender groups
  • † - archaic

References

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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