ena
Catalan edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ena f (plural enes)
- The name of the Latin-script letter N.
Cavineña edit
Etymology edit
The e- is an obligatory dummy prefix taken by some nouns (namely, those in the e-class) in Cavineña.
Noun edit
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.
References edit
- Antoine Guillaume, A Grammar of Cavineña (2008, →ISBN
Chuukese edit
Determiner edit
ena (plural ekkana)
Ese Ejja edit
Noun edit
ena
References edit
- José Alvarez Fernández, Vocabulario español-huarayo (2008), page 94
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
From en (“in, within, inside”) + -a (adjectival ending).
Adjective edit
ena (accusative singular enan, plural enaj, accusative plural enajn)
Antonyms edit
Ladin edit
Etymology edit
From Latin hebdomas. Compare Romansch emna.
Noun edit
ena f (plural enes)
Synonyms edit
Mauritian Creole edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ena (medial form ena)
- to have
- (impersonal) there is; there are
Nupe edit
Etymology 1 edit
Compare Yoruba iná, uná and Igala úná.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ena (plural enazhì)
Etymology 2 edit
Compare with Gbari ena (“goat”), perhaps related to Yoruba ẹran (“animal, meat”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ena (plural enazhì)
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
enà (plural enàzhì)
- artistic design; embroidery; engraving
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Adjective edit
ena
Declension edit
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | enaṃ |
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | enaṃ |
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | enaṃ |
Derived terms edit
- enā (“this one”)
Pronoun edit
ena m
Declension edit
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | enaṃ |
Pronoun edit
ena n
Declension edit
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | enaṃ |
Rapa Nui edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Polynesian *e-na. Cognates include Tahitian enā and Maori ēnā.
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
ena
- this, that (near the spoken to)
- Te vaka ena. ― That canoe (near you).
- next, following
- Matahiti ena. ― Next year.
See also edit
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 |
References edit
Slovene edit
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
êna
Usage notes edit
This is the usual form used when counting or reciting numbers.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish ena. Cognate with Danish ene, Norwegian Bokmål ene, Norwegian Nynorsk eine, eina, German einen. Equivalent to en (“one”) + -a.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Pronoun edit
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!
Verb edit
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
Usage notes edit
- 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.
Conjugation edit
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | ena | enas | ||
Supine | enat | enats | ||
Imperative | ena | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | enen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | enar | enade | enas | enades |
Ind. plural1 | ena | enade | enas | enades |
Subjunctive2 | ene | enade | enes | enades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | enande | |||
Past participle | enad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- ena in Svensk ordbok.
Ternate edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ena (subject clitic i, possessive prefix ma, Jawi اين)
- (for non-human groups) third-person plural pronoun, they
See also edit
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
References edit
- 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