bacra-taban

Afar

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Cardinal: bacra-tabán     Ordinal: bacra-tabanháytu

Etymology

Univerbation of bacrá (“eight”) +‎ tabán (“ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baħˌrataˈban/ [bʌħˌɾʌtʌˈbʌn]
• Hyphenation: bac‧ra‧ta‧ban

Noun

bacra-tabán m 

1. eighty

Usage notes

• When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:

  Bacra-tabaníh númu. ― Eighty people.

• When counting, the predicative case is used.

Declension

Declension of bacra-tabán
absolutive	bacra-tabán
predicative	bacra-tabaná
subjective	bacra-tabán
genitive	bacra-tabaníh
Postpositioned forms l-case bacra-tabanál k-case bacra-tabanák t-case bacra-tabanát h-case bacra-tabanáh

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 232
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197