bän

See also: bæn and Appendix:Variations of "ban"

Gagauz

Cyrillic		бӓн

Alternative forms

• bean (pre-1950's spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بَنْ (bän), from Proto-Common Turkic *ben (“I”), from Proto-Turkic *be. cognate with Tuvan мен (men), Khakas мин (min), Northern Altai мен (men), Kazakh мен (men), Turkish ben, Azerbaijani mən.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæn/

Pronoun

bän (definite accusative beni, plural biz)

1. I (first person singular pronoun)

Declension

Declension of bän

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	bän	biz
definite accusative (belirtme)	beni	bizi
dative (yönelme)	bana	bizä
locative (bulunma)	bendä	bizdä
ablative (çıkma)	bendän	bizdän
genitive (tamlayan)	benim	bizim

Further reading

• Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “bean”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 14
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “bän”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 29
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “бӓн”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 77
• Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “bän”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary]‎^[1], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 81

Jersey Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɛn], [βɛn]

Verb

bän

1. first-person singular present indicative of wêze (“am”)
2. second-person singular present indicative of wêze (“are”)

Volapük

Noun

bän (nominative plural bäns)

1. ebb tide
2. low tide

Declension

Declension of bän

	singular	plural
nominative	bän	bäns
genitive	bäna	bänas
dative	bäne	bänes
accusative	bäni	bänis
vocative 1	o bän!	o bäns!
predicative 2	bänu	bänus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only