penhẽ
Nheengatu edit
Etymology edit
From Old Tupi peẽ. Cognate with Guaraní peẽ.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pe‧nhẽ
- Rhymes: -ẽ
Pronoun edit
penhẽ
- (first-class) second-person plural personal pronoun (you)
- Penhẽ mira-itá. Penhẽ pesasá puranga.
- You are people. You do well.
- Aintá uputari uyuká penhẽ.
- They want to kill you.
- Aintá umeẽ manungara penhẽ arama.
- They give something to you.
- 2016, Marcel Twardowsky Ávila, Estudo e prática da tradução da obra infantil A terra dos meninos pelados, de Graciliano Ramos, do português para o nheengatu, page 175:
- — Ti pepitá tuyué. Penhẽ yawewara kurumĩ.
- — You do not get old. You are always like boys.
Usage notes edit
- As a first-class pronoun, penhẽ is used as the subject (with the exception of second-class verbs, which are sometimes referred to as adjectives) and as the object of a sentence. The personal pronoun penhẽ is also used when governed by the postposition arama, which is occasionally omitted.
See also edit
| singular | first-class pronoun | second-class pronoun |
|---|---|---|
| first-person | ixé | se |
| second-person | indé | ne |
| third-person | aé | i |
| plural | first-class pronoun | second-class pronoun |
| first-person | yandé | yané |
| second-person | penhẽ | pe |
| third-person | aintá (or tá) | aintá (or tá) |
References edit
- ÁVILA, Marcel Twardowsky (2021) Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, pages 589 and 590
- NAVARRO, Eduardo de Almeida (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica, 2nd edition, →ISBN, pages 11 and 107