bacra-taban
Afar
← 70 | ← 79 | 80 | 81 → | 90 → |
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8 | ||||
Cardinal: bacra-tabán Ordinal: bacra-tabanháytu |
Etymology
Univerbation of bacrá (“eight”) + tabán (“ten”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʌħˌɾʌtʌˈbʌn/
- Hyphenation: bac‧ra‧ta‧ban
Noun
bacra-tabán m
- 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
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absolutive | bacra-tabán | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | bacra-tabaná | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | bacra-tabán | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | bacra-tabaníh | |||||||||||||||||
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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), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197