sa

See also Appendix:Variations of "sa"

Albanian

Pronoun

sa

1. how much

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Ama

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sa/

Noun

sa

1. rain

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Catalan

Etymology

from Latin sanus

Adjective

sa m. (feminine sana, masculine plural sans, feminine plural sanes)

1. healthy

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Estonian

Alternative forms

• Sa (optional capitalization)

Etymology

Short form of sina

Pronoun

sa

1. you, thou (personal pronoun of the second person of singular in unstressed positions)

   Mis sa teed seal? - What are you doing there?

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa
• IPA: [sɑ]

Pronoun

sa

1. (personal, archaic, poetic) you (singular; in archaic English: thou).

Synonyms

• sinä (standard Finnish)
• sie (dialectal)
• sä (colloquial)
• sää (dialectal)

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French

Etymology

Latin sua, feminine form of suus.

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• IPA: /sa/

Adjective

sa f. (singular)

1. (possessive) His, her, its, one's.

   Pierre a perdu sa carte d'identité.

   Pierre has lost his identity card.

Related terms

    French possessive adjectives

			Possessee
			Singular		Plural
			Masculine	Feminine	—
Possessor	Singular	First person	mon	ma	mes
		Second person	ton	ta	tes
		Third person	son	sa	ses
	Plural	First person	notre		nos
		Second person	votre		vos
		Third person	leur		leurs

Anagrams

• as

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Gothic

Romanization

sa

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰

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Guaraní

Cardinal number

sa

1. hundred

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French ça

Determiner

sa

1. this
2. these
3. that
4. those

Pronoun

sa

1. (demonstrative) this
2. (demonstrative) these
3. (demonstrative) that
4. (demonstrative) those
5. (interrogative) what
6. (relative) what

Derived terms

• kisa

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Indonesian

Cardinal number

sa

1. (cardinal) one

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [sˠə]

Contraction

sa (preposition + definite article fusion , i + an)

1. in the (singular)

Usage notes

Used before consonant sounds only. Triggers lenition of b, c, f, g, m, and p in Munster varieties and eclipsis in the Ulster and Connaught varieties. Changes initial s to ts in feminine nouns and, in some varieties, masculine nouns.

• sa bhád – "in the boat"
• sa tsráid – "in the street"
• sa seomra or sa tseomra – "in the room"

In Ulster and Connaught:

• "b" becomes "m"
• "p" becomes "b"
• "d" becomes "n"
• "t" becomes "d"
• "c" becomes "g"
• "g" becomes "ng"
• "f" becomes "bh" /v/.

Related terms

• san (used before vowel sounds)
• sna (plural)

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Italian

Verb

sa

1. (third-person singular present indicative of sapere) (he/she/it/one) knows

   Giovanni sa dov'è Laura - Giovanni knows where Laura is

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Japanese

Syllable

sa

1. The hiragana syllable さ (sa) or the katakana syllable サ (sa) in Hepburn romanization.

Noun

sa (hiragana さ)

1. 差: difference
2. さ: hiragana letter sa
3. サ: katakana letter sa

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Livonian

Pronoun

sa (long form sina)

1. you (informal, personal, sg.)

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Lojban

Cmavo

sa

1. (metalinguistic eraser) deletes all preceding words up to the last instance of the word following sa

Related terms

• si
• su

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Mandarin

Romanization

sa

1. Nonstandard spelling of sā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of sá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of sà.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Norwegian

Verb

sa

1. Past tense of si

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Old French

Pronoun

sa f. (masculine son, plural ses)

1. his/hers/its (third-person singular possessive pronoun)

Descendants

• French: sa

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Old Irish

Determiner

sa

1. Alternative spelling of so.

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Palu'e

Cardinal number

sa

1. one

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Romani

Pronoun

sa

1. all

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin *sa, from sua, the feminine form of suus.

Pronoun

sa (feminine form of său)

1. his/her

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Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• sa'

Etymology

anns + a'

Preposition

sa

1. in the

Usage notes

• This form is used before nouns beginning with b, c, g, m or p; otherwise san is used instead.

Related terms

• ann an

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Serbo-Croatian

Preposition

sa (Cyrillic spelling са)

1. Alternative form of s.

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Slovak

Pronoun

sa (seba)

1. Replaces the accusative of any personal pronoun whenever the object, whether expressed or implied, is of the same person as the subject. Typically can be translated as the corresponding version of oneself:

   vidím sa v zrkadle— I see myself in the mirror

   Koho vidíš v zrkadle? Seba.— Whom do you see in the mirror? Myself.

2. (reflexive) Bound with certain verbs, similar to the Italian si. The pronoun is a part of the verb.

   modliť sa—to pray. There is no modliť in Slovak without the sa.

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Swedish

Etymology

Consonant decline from sade

Verb

sa /ˈsɑː/

1. past tense of säga.

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Tagalog

Preposition

sa

1. Indirect object marker. Sa can be translated as "to", "from", "at" or other English prepositions. It is commonly used in combination with other words to form more specific prepositional phrases: e.g. sa pamamagitan ng - "by means of"; mula sa - "from".

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Vietnamese

Noun

sa

1. gauze

Verb

sa

1. fall, drop

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West Frisian

Conjunction

sa

1. so