faayya

Sidamo[edit]

faayya (plural faayyulle)

Declension of faayya

	masculine	feminine
predicative	faayya	faayya
nominative	faayyu	faayya
genitive	faayyu^*)	faayya^*) faayyate
accusative	faayya^*)	faayya^*)
^) Stressed on the final vowel. ^) When part of a predicative phrase, the predicative case adjectives are followed by the clitics -ho* (m) and -te (f)

Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 144
Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “faayya”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department