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ena f (plural enes)

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

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

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

ena (plural ekkana)

  1. that

ena

  1. his/her body

Possessive inflection of ena (inalienable)

Singular Plural
First person cvna pona
Second person cena
Third person ena
Indefinite estena
  • J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 27
  • J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 134

ena

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

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

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

  1. interior, internal, inner

From Latin hebdomas. Compare Romansch emna.

ena f (plural enes)

  1. week

From French il y en a.

ena (medial form ena)

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

Compare Yoruba iná, uná and Igala úná.

ena (plural enazhì)

  1. fire
  2. light

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

ena (plural enazhì)

  1. mammal

Compare Yoruba ọnà.

enà (plural enàzhì)

  1. artistic design; embroidery; engraving

Alternative scripts

ena

  1. this

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
  • enā (this one)

ena m

  1. this

Declension table of "ena" (masculine)

Case \ NumberSingular
Accusative (second)enaṃ

ena n

  1. this

Declension table of "ena" (neuter)

Case \ NumberSingular
Accusative (second)enaṃ

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

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

ena

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

Rapa Nui demonstratives

Demonstrative determiners
Neutral Proximal Medial Distal
, 1) nei, 2)
Postnuclear demonstratives
Neutral Proximal Medial Distal
nei ena era
Demonstrative pronouns
Neutral Proximal Medial Distal
ira nei
Demonstrative locationals
Neutral Proximal Medial Distal
nei
1) Emphatic
2) Rare
  • Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 145
  • Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 194

êna

  1. one

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

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

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!

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
  • 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.

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

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

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
  • 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