Wiktionary

ደብዳቤ

Amharic edit

Root
ደ-በ-ደ-በ
(dä-bä-dä-bä)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /dəbˈdabːe/
  • Hyphenation: ደብ‧ዳ‧ቤ

Noun edit

ደብዳቤ • (däbdabbe) m

  1. letter (written communication)

Declension edit

Definiteness forms of ደብዳቤ (däbdabbe)
Masculine
Indefinite ደብዳቤ (däbdabbe)
Definite subject ደብዳቤው (däbdabbew)
Definite object ደብዳቤውን (däbdabbewən)
General object ደብዳቤን (däbdabben)
Possessive forms of ደብዳቤ (däbdabbe)
Singular Plural Formal
First person ደብዳቤዬ (däbdabbeye) ደብዳቤያችን (däbdabbeyaččən) —
Second person m ደብዳቤህ (däbdabbeh) ደብዳቤያችሁ (däbdabbeyaččəhu) ደብዳቤዎ (däbdabbewo)
f ደብዳቤሽ (däbdabbeš)
Third person m ደብዳቤው (däbdabbew) ደብዳቤያቸው (däbdabbeyaččäw)
f ደብዳቤዋ (däbdabbewa)

References edit

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ደብዳቤ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1789
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 44
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