አንቱ

Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔantum. Cognates include Ge'ez አንትሙ (ʾäntəmu) and Arabic أَنْتُمْ (ʔantum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)antu/
• Hyphenation: አን‧ቱ

Pronoun

አንቱ • (ʾantu)

1. (rare) Synonym of እስዎ (ʾəssəwo)

See also

Amharic personal pronouns

	1st person	2nd person		3rd person
		m	f	m	f
familiar singular	እኔ (ʾəne)	አንተ (ʾantä)	አንቺ (ʾanči)	እሱ (ʾəssu) እርሱ (ʾərsu)	እሷ (ʾəssʷa) እርሷ (ʾərsʷa)
plural	እኛ (ʾəñña)	እናንተ (ʾənnantä) እናንት (ʾənnantə)1)		እነሱ (ʾənnässu) እነርሱ (ʾənnärsu)
formal singular	—	እስዎ (ʾəssəwo) እርስዎ (ʾərsəwo) አንቱ (ʾantu)1)		እሳቸው (ʾəssaččäw) እርሳቸው (ʾərsaččäw)

¹⁾ rare

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “አንተ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 17