ife
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Chichewa
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ife
- we (first-person plural personal pronoun)
See also
[edit]Chichewa personal pronouns
Irish
[edit]Verb
[edit]ife
- past participle of ibh
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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ife | n-ife | hife | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ife”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]ife f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Southern Ndebele
[edit]Noun
[edit]ife? class 9 (plural izimfe class 10)
Inflection
[edit]This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ai (interrogative particle) + fe (“him, it”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]ife
- (South Wales, colloquial) interrogative particle (used sentence-initially when a non-verbal element is fronted for emphasis)
- Synonym: ai
- Ife fe yw dy dad?
- Is he your dad?
- (South Wales, colloquial) interrogative particle (used sentence-finally when a non-verbal element is fronted for emphasis)
- Synonym: ia
- Fe yw dy dad, ife?
- He’s your dad, is he?
Usage notes
[edit]- Used sentence-initially in some southern dialects to qualify a non-verbal element fronted for emphasis. To indicate the interrogative of unemphatic initial verbs, the soft mutation is employed instead.
- Used sentence-finally in general in the south when a sentence contains a non-verbal element fronted for emphasis. The equivalent northern particle is ia.
Yoruba
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ife
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- Rhymes:Welsh/ɪvɛ
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