ደብዳቤ

Amharic

Root
ደ-በ-ደ-በ (dä-bä-dä-bä)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dəbˈdabːe/
• Hyphenation: ደብ‧ዳ‧ቤ

Noun

ደብዳቤ • (däbdabbe) m

1. letter (written communication)

Declension

Definiteness forms of ደብዳቤ (däbdabbe)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ደብዳቤ (däbdabbe)
Definite subject	ደብዳቤው (däbdabbew)
Definite object	ደብዳቤውን (däbdabbewən)
General object	ደብዳቤን (däbdabben)

Possessive forms of ደብዳቤ (däbdabbe)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ደብዳቤዬ (däbdabbeye)	ደብዳቤያችን (däbdabbeyaččən)	—
Second person	m	ደብዳቤህ (däbdabbeh)	ደብዳቤያችሁ (däbdabbeyaččəhu)	ደብዳቤዎ (däbdabbewo)
	f	ደብዳቤሽ (däbdabbeš)
Third person	m	ደብዳቤው (däbdabbew)	ደብዳቤያቸው (däbdabbeyaččäw)
	f	ደብዳቤዋ (däbdabbewa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ደብዳቤ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1789
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 44