ሕሙም
Amharic
| Root |
|---|
| ሐ-መ-መ (ḥä-mä-mä) |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɨmum/
- Hyphenation: ሕ‧ሙም
Usage notes
- The gender of ሕሙም depends on the natural gender of the referent. As such, it may be translated as either male patient (masculine) or female patient (feminine) depending on the context. If the natural gender is unknown, the masculine gender is used.
Declension
Definiteness forms of ሕሙም (ḥəmum)
| Masculine | Feminine | |
|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | ሕሙም (ḥəmum) | |
| Definite subject | ሕሙሙ (ḥəmumu) | ሕሙሟ (ḥəmumʷa) ሕሙሚቱ (ḥəmumitu) ሕሙሚቷ (ḥəmumitʷa) |
| Definite object | ሕሙሙን (ḥəmumun) | ሕሙሟን (ḥəmumʷan) ሕሙሚቱን (ḥəmumitun) ሕሙሚቷን (ḥəmumitʷan) |
| General object | ሕሙምን (ḥəmumən) | |
Possessive forms of ሕሙም (ḥəmum)
| Singular | Plural | Formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First person | ሕሙሜ (ḥəmume) | ሕሙማችን (ḥəmumaččən) | — | |
| Second person | m | ሕሙምህ (ḥəmuməh) | ሕሙማችሁ (ḥəmumaččəhu) | ሕሙምዎ (ḥəmumwo) |
| f | ሕሙምሽ (ḥəmuməš) | |||
| Third person | m | ሕሙሙ (ḥəmumu) | ሕሙማቸው (ḥəmumaččäw) | |
| f | ሕሙሟ (ḥəmumʷa) | |||
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990), “ሕመም”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
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