bän

See also: bæn and Appendix:Variations of "ban"

Gagauz

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”). cognate with Tuvan мен (men), Khakas мин (min), Northern Altai мен (men), Kazakh мен (men), Turkish ben, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæn/

Pronoun

bän

1. I

Jersey Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɛn], [βɛn]

Verb

bän

1. first-person singular present indicative of wêze (“am”)
2. second-person singular present indicative of wêze (“are”)

Volapük

Noun

bän (nominative plural bäns)

1. ebb tide
2. low tide

Declension

declension of bän

	singular	plural
nominative	bän	bäns
genitive	bäna	bänas
dative	bäne	bänes
accusative	bäni	bänis
vocative 1	o bän!	o bäns!
predicative 2	bänu	bänus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only