ሐይ

Amharic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhajː/
• Hyphenation: ሐይ

Noun

ሐይ • (ḥayy) m or f

1. beast, animal

Declension

Definiteness forms of ሐይ (ḥayy)

	Masculine	Feminine
Indefinite	ሐይ (ḥayy)
Definite subject	ሐዩ (ḥayyu)	ሐዯ (ḥayyʷa) ሐዪቱ (ḥayyitu) ሐዪቷ (ḥayyitʷa)
Definite object	ሐዩን (ḥayyun)	ሐዯን (ḥayyʷan) ሐዪቱን (ḥayyitun) ሐዪቷን (ḥayyitʷan)
General object	ሐይን (ḥayyən)

Possessive forms of ሐይ (ḥayy)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ሐዬ (ḥayye)	ሐያችን (ḥayyaččən)	—
Second person	m	ሐይህ (ḥayyəh)	ሐያችሁ (ḥayyaččəhu)	ሐይዎ (ḥayywo)
	f	ሐይሽ (ḥayyəš)
Third person	m	ሐዩ (ḥayyu)	ሐያቸው (ḥayyaččäw)
	f	ሐዯ (ḥayyʷa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሐይ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 24