bacaar
Afar
| 80 | ||
| ← 7 | 8 | 9 → |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: bacáar Ordinal: bacarháytu | ||
Etymology
Cognate to Saho baxar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʌˈħaːɾ/
- Hyphenation: ba‧caar
Noun
bacáar m (plural bacaccáar m)
- eight
Usage notes
- When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:
- Bacrá númu. ― Eight people.
- When counting, the predicative case is used.
Declension
| Declension of bacáar | ||||||||||||||||||
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| absolutive | bacáar | |||||||||||||||||
| predicative | bacáara | |||||||||||||||||
| subjective | bacáar | |||||||||||||||||
| genitive | bacrá | |||||||||||||||||
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References
- E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bacaar”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN