даа

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Chechen

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Verb

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даа (daa)

  1. to eat

Ingush

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Verb

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даа (daa)

  1. to eat

Mongolian

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MongolianCyrillic
ᠳ᠋ᠠ
(da)
даа
(daa)

Particle

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даа (daa)

  1. Final intensifying particle; emphatic particle.
    Тэг л дээTeg l deeDo it, then!
    Амттай биз дээ?Amttaj biz dee?Tastes good, doesn't it?

Inflection

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Tuvan

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with Khakas даа (daa), таа (taa), дее (dee), тее (tee); Shor да, та, Yakut да (da); Southern Altai да (da), та (ta), де (de), те (te), ; Kazakh да (da), де (de); etc.

Pronunciation

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Particle

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даа (daa) (emphatic)

  1. (in the form …-даа, …-даа) bothand(affirmatively); neither … nor … (negatively)
  2. (after a conditional verb) even if
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠳ᠋ᠠ (da, chief), from Manchu ᡩᠠ (da, chief).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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даа (daa) (definite accusative дааны, plural даалар)

  1. short for үгер-даа (üger-daa, appointed chief of a banner)

Yakut

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Etymology

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cognate with Turkmen -da, -dä and Azerbaijani da, .

Particle

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даа (daa)

  1. At the beginning of a sentence, expresses general, noncommittal agreement.
    даа, даа ...daa, daa ...yes, yes ...
  2. At the end of a sentence, forms a counter-question where a "yes" is expected. Can be translated variously as "isn't it", "you say", and so on. Similar to Japanese .
    бараллар даа?barallar daa?they're leaving, aren't they?

See also

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