ሰው

Amharic

Etymology

Cognates include Ge'ez ሰብእ (säbʾ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsəw/
• Hyphenation: ሰው

Noun

ሰው • (säw) m (singulative ሰውዬ (säwəyye))

1. (collective) man
2. (collective) mankind
3. (collective) gentleman

Declension

Possessive forms of ሰው (säw)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ሰዌ (säwe)	ሰዋችን (säwaččən)	—
Second person	m	ሰውህ (säwəh)	ሰዋችሁ (säwaččəhu)	ሰውዎ (säwwo)
	f	ሰውሽ (säwəš)
Third person	m	ሰዉ (säwu)	ሰዋቸው (säwaččäw)
	f	ሰውኧ (säwʷa)

Coordinate terms

• (man): ሴት (set, “woman”)

Pronoun

ሰው • (säw)

1. anybody, somebody, anyone, someone
2. (+ negative) nobody, no-one

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሰው”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 36