-sa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sa"

Irish

Alternative forms

• -se (slender form)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sˠə]

Suffix

-sa

1. -self (emphatic)

Usage notes

• Added to nouns in the presence of the possessive adjective to emphasize the possessor rather than the thing possessed:

  mo/do charrsa — my/your sg car

  a mhadrasa — his dog

  a/bhur madrasa — her/your pl dog

• Added to prepositional pronouns (ending in a broad consonant) to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun):
  • Used with first-person singular and second-person singular (except with slender forms such as uaim or duit, e.g., agamsa, ortsa, etc.).
• Added to verbs to indicate "myself/yourself/yourselves":

  (Standard forms)

  chloisteása — you (yourself) used to hear

  (Munster/Non-standard forms)

  chualas-sa — I (myself) heard

  chualabharsa — you (yourselves) heard

Related terms

• -na
• -san

See also

• féin
• tusa, thusa

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Japanese

Romanization

-sa

1. Rōmaji reading of さ

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• -se (slender form)
• -so

Suffix

-sa

1. myself (emphatic)

Usage notes

Added to nouns to emphasize a first-person singular possessor, to verbs to emphasize a first-person singular subject, and to inflected prepositions to emphasize a first-person singular object:

• Bíuu-sa oc irbáig dar far cenn-si fri Maccidóndu.

  "I (emph.) am boasting about you to the Macedonians."

The alternative form -se is used after slender consonants and front vowels.

Related terms

• -so
• -som
• -si
• -ni

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Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• -se (slender form)

Suffix

-sa

1. -self (emphatic)

Usage notes

• Added to prepositional pronouns (ending in a broad consonant) to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun):
  • Used in first-person singular: (e.g., agamsa).
  • Used in second-person singular: (e.g., ortsa).

See also

• -ne
• -san