penhẽ

Nheengatu

Etymology

From Old Tupi peẽ. Cognate with Guaraní peẽ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pẽ.ˈɲẽ]

• Hyphenation: pe‧nhẽ
• Rhymes: -ẽ

Pronoun

penhẽ

1. (first-class) second-person plural personal pronoun (you)

   Penhẽ mira-itá. Penhẽ pesasá puranga.

   You are people. You do well.

   Aintá uputari uyuká penhẽ.

   They want to kill you.

   Aintá umeẽ manungara penhẽ arama.

   They give something to you.

   • 2016, Marcel Twardowsky Ávila, Estudo e prática da tradução da obra infantil A terra dos meninos pelados, de Graciliano Ramos, do português para o nheengatu, page 175:

     — Ti pepitá tuyué. Penhẽ yawewara kurumĩ.

     — You do not get old. You are always like boys.

Usage notes

• As a first-class pronoun, penhẽ 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 penhẽ is also used when governed by the postposition arama, which is occasionally omitted.

See also

Nheengatu personal pronouns

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

• AVILA, Marcel Twardowsky (2021) Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, pages 589 and 590
• 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 107