dà

See also: da and Appendix:Variations of "da"

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin dāre, present active infinitive of dō (“give”).

Verb

dà

1. to give

---

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a

Verb

dà

1. third-person singular present of dare
2. second-person singular imperative of dare

Anagrams

• ad, AD

---

Ladin

Verb

dà

1. third-person singular present indicative of dé
2. third-person plural present indicative of dé
3. second-person singular imperative of dé

---

Mandarin

Romanization

dà (da⁴, Zhuyin ㄉㄚˋ)

1. Template:pinyin reading of
2. Template:pinyin reading of
3. Template:pinyin reading of

---

Muong

Pronoun

dà

1. you

---

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin dāre, present active infinitive of dō (“give”).

Verb

dà

1. to give

---

Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic cardinal numbers

<  1	2	3  >
Cardinal : dà     Ordinal : dàrna

Etymology

From Old Irish dá, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Numeral

dà

1. two

Usage notes

• Used before a noun; dhà is used when free-standing (counting, telling a row of numerals etc).

  Tha dà chàr aige. ― He has two cars.

  Tha a dhà aice cuideachd. ― She has two as well.

  Fòn a h-aon, a h-aon, a dhà! ― Phone one-one-two!

• The following noun is in the singular dative case, lenited.

  balach ― boy → dà bhalach ― two boys

  cailleag ― girl → dà chaileig ― two girls

• The definite article, if used, is in the singular form:

  an dà chaileig ― the two girls

• If followed by a pronoun, the pronoun is in the plural:

  an dà dhiubh ― the two of them

  Bhiodh e na b' fheàrr nan gabhadh an dà rud an dealachadh. ― It would be better if the two things could be separated.

Derived terms

• an dà chuid (“both”)
• an dà latha (“great change”)
• bèist-dà-leann (“tapeworm”)
• carbon dà ogsaid (“carbon dioxide”)
• dà bhliadhnail (“biennial”, adjective)
• dà dheug (“twelve”)
• dà dhusan dheug (“gross, 144”)
• dà fhichead (“forty”)
• dà- (“bi-, di-, two-”)
• dàrna (“second”)
• dithis (“two [persons]”)
• eadar dà sgeul (“incidentally”)
• lus dà bhliadhnail (“biennial”, noun)

 

See also

• fichead (“twenty”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “dà”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language