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Catalan
[edit]Noun
[edit]indé m (plural indens)
Nheengatu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Tupi endé. Cognate with Guaraní nde.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: in‧dé
- Rhymes: -ɛ
Pronoun
[edit]indé
- (first-class) second-person singular personal pronoun (you)
- Indé mira. Indé resasá puranga.
- You are a person. You do well.
- Aé uputari uyuká indé.
- He wants to kill you.
- Aé umeẽ manungara indé arama.
- He gives something to you.
Usage notes
[edit]- As a first-class pronoun, indé is used as the subject (with the exception of second-class verbs, which are sometimes referred to as adjectives) and as the object of a sentence. The personal pronoun indé is also used when governed by the postposition arama, which is occasionally omitted.
See also
[edit]singular | first-class pronoun | second-class pronoun |
---|---|---|
first-person | ixé | se |
second-person | indé | ne |
third-person | aé | i |
plural | first-class pronoun | second-class pronoun |
first-person | yandé | yané |
second-person | penhẽ | pe |
third-person | aintá (or tá) | aintá (or tá) |
References
[edit]- AVILA, Marcel Twardowsky (2021) Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, pages 325 and 326
- DA CRUZ, Aline (2011) Fonologia e gramática do nheengatu: a língua geral falada pelos povos baré, warekena e baniwa, Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, →ISBN, page 46
- NAVARRO, Eduardo de Almeida (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica, 2nd edition, →ISBN, pages 11 and 104