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Japanese
Romanization
jien
- Rōmaji transcription of じえん
Maltese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Arabic أَنَا (ʔanā) with expressive lengthening of the first syllable (*ʾānā) as generally in Maghrebi dialects; compare Tunisian Arabic آنا (ʔāna), Moroccan Arabic آنا (ʔāna). Eventually from Proto-Semitic *ʔanāku. Prefixed j- occurs more often in Maltese (compare jew); in this case perhaps generalised from a position after the personal suffixes -i, -ni, as in dari jien(a) (“my own house”). This construction is not very common anymore in Maltese, but it is throughout Arabic.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
jien
- I (first-person singular subject pronoun)
Usage notes
- In a standalone context absent of a conjugated verb, this takes on the present tense first person singular meaning of "to be".
Inflection