አንተ

Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta. Cognates include Ge'ez አንተ (ʾantä) and Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)antə/
• Hyphenation: አን‧ተ

Pronoun

አንተ • (ʾantä) m

1. thou, you (singular)

See also

Amharic personal pronouns

	1st person	2nd person		3rd person
		m	f	m	f
familiar singular	እኔ (ʾəne)	አንተ (ʾantä)	አንቺ (ʾanči)	እሱ (ʾəssu) እርሱ (ʾərsu)	እሷ (ʾəssʷa) እርሷ (ʾərsʷa)
plural	እኛ (ʾəñña)	እናንተ (ʾənnantä) እናንት (ʾənnantə)1)		እነሱ (ʾənnässu) እነርሱ (ʾənnärsu)
formal singular	—	እስዎ (ʾəssəwo) እርስዎ (ʾərsəwo) አንቱ (ʾantu)1)		እሳቸው (ʾəssaččäw) እርሳቸው (ʾərsaččäw)

¹⁾ rare

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990), “አንተ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000), Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 17

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta.

Pronoun

አንተ • (ʾantä) m sg (enclitic form ከ (-kä))

1. you, thou (masculine singular subject pronoun)

See also

Ge'ez personal pronouns

isolated nominative pronouns
		singular	plural
1st person		አነ (ʾanä)	ንሕነ (nəḥna)
2nd person	m	አንተ (ʾantä)	አንትሙ (ʾantəmu)
	f	አንቲ (ʾanti)	አንትን (ʾantən)
3rd person	m	ውእቱ (wəʾətu)	ውእቶሙ (wəʾətom), እሙንቱ (ʾəmuntu)
	f	ይእቲ (yəʾəti)	ውእቶን (wəʾəton), እማንቱ (ʾəmantu)
enclitic accusative and genitive pronouns
		singular	plural
1st person		የ (-yä), ኒ (-ni)1	ነ (-nä)
2nd person	m	ከ (-kä)	ክሙ (-kəmmu)
	f	ኪ (-ki)	ክን (-kən)
3rd person	m	ሁ (-(h)u)2	ሆሙ (-(h)omu)2
	f	ሃ (-(h)a)2	ሆን (-(h)on)2

1. የ (-yä) is attached to nouns, while ኒ (-ni) is attached to verbs.
2. In all third person suffixes, an "h" is inserted when preceded by a vowel.

References

• August Dillmann; Carl Bezold (1857, 1899), James A. Crichton, transl., Ethiopic Grammar‎, 2nd edition, London: Williams & Norgate, published 1907, page 338
• Wolf Leslau (1988), Fifty Years of Research: Selection of articles on Semitic, Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 162