እኔ

Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔana. Cognates include Ge'ez አነ (ʾanä), Arabic أَنَا (ʔanā) and Hebrew אני (aní).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)ɨne/
• Hyphenation: እ‧ኔ

• Audio:

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Pronoun

እኔ • (ʾəne)

1. I

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

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