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ena f (plural enes)
- 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
- 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)
ena
- his/her body
Possessive inflection of ena (inalienable)
ena
- 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)
From Latin hebdomas. Compare Romansch emna.
ena f (plural enes)
ena (medial form ena)
- to have
- (impersonal) there is; there are
Compare Yoruba iná, uná and Igala úná.
ena (plural enazhì)
Compare with Gbari ena (“goat”), perhaps related to Yoruba ẹran (“animal, meat”)
ena (plural enazhì)
enà (plural enàzhì)
- artistic design; embroidery; engraving
Alternative scripts
ena
Declension table of "ena" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | enaṃ |
Declension table of "enā" (feminine)
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | enaṃ |
Declension table of "ena" (neuter)
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | enaṃ |
- enā (“this one”)
ena m
Declension table of "ena" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | enaṃ |
ena n
Declension table of "ena" (neuter)
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | enaṃ |
From Proto-Polynesian *e-na. Cognates include Tahitian enā and Maori ēnā.
ena
- this, that (near the spoken to)
- Te vaka ena. ― That canoe (near you).
- next, following
- Matahiti ena. ― Next year.
Rapa Nui demonstratives
Demonstrative determiners | ||||
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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 |
êna
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
- one; definite of en
Jag måste välja den ena eller den andra.
- I must choose one or the other.
- (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)
- 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 in Svensk ordbok.
ena (subject clitic i, possessive prefix ma, Jawi اين)
- (for non-human groups) third-person plural pronoun, they
Ternate personal pronouns
independent | subject proclitic | possessive | ||||
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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