ife
Chichewa edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ife
- we (first-person plural personal pronoun)
See also edit
Irish edit
Verb edit
ife
- past participle of ibh
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
ife | n-ife | hife | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ife”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Italian edit
Noun edit
ife f pl
Anagrams edit
Southern Ndebele edit
Noun edit
ife? class 9 (plural izimfe class 10)
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From ai (“interrogative particle”) + fe (“him, it”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
ife
- (South Wales, colloquial) interrogative particle (used sentence-initially when a non-verbal element is fronted for emphasis)
- Synonym: ai
- Ife fe yw dy dad?
- Is he your dad?
- (South Wales, colloquial) interrogative particle (used sentence-finally when a non-verbal element is fronted for emphasis)
- Synonym: ia
- Fe yw dy dad, ife?
- He’s your dad, is he?
Usage notes edit
- Used sentence-initially in some southern dialects to qualify a non-verbal element fronted for emphasis. To indicate the interrogative of unemphatic initial verbs, the soft mutation is employed instead.
- Used sentence-finally in general in the south when a sentence contains a non-verbal element fronted for emphasis. The equivalent northern particle is ia.
Yoruba edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ife