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Chichewa
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ife
- we (first-person plural personal pronoun)
See also
Chichewa personal pronouns
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singular
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plural or formal
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| 1st person
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ine
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ife
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| 2nd person
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iwe
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inu
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| 3rd person
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iye
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iwo
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Irish
Verb
ife
- past participle of ibh
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| ife
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n-ife
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hife
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
Italian
Noun
ife f pl
- plural of ifa
Anagrams
Southern Ndebele
Noun
ife? class 9 (plural izimfe class 10)
- sweet cane
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Welsh
Etymology
From ai (“interrogative particle”) + fe (“him, it”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Particle
ife
- (South Wales, colloquial) interrogative particle (used sentence-initially when a non-verbal element is fronted for emphasis)
- Synonym: ai
Ife fe yw dy dad?- Is he your dad?
- (South Wales, colloquial) interrogative particle (used sentence-finally when a non-verbal element is fronted for emphasis)
- Synonym: ia
Fe yw dy dad, ife?- He’s your dad, is he?
Usage notes
- Used sentence-initially in some southern dialects to qualify a non-verbal element fronted for emphasis. To indicate the interrogative of unemphatic initial verbs, the soft mutation is employed instead.
- Used sentence-finally in general in the south when a sentence contains a non-verbal element fronted for emphasis. The equivalent northern particle is ia.
Yoruba
Pronunciation
Noun
ife
- cup
- Synonyms: ago, ukèrè