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Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Rhymes: -a

Verb[edit]

  1. third-person singular present of dare
  2. second-person singular imperative of dare

Anagrams[edit]


Ladin[edit]

Verb[edit]

  1. third-person singular present indicative of
  2. third-person plural present indicative of
  3. second-person singular imperative of

Mandarin[edit]

Romanization[edit]

(Zhuyin ㄉㄚˋ)

  1. Pinyin transliteration of
  2. Pinyin transliteration of
  3. Pinyin transliteration of

Muong[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

  1. you

Neapolitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin .

Verb[edit]

  1. to give

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Scottish Gaelic cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal :
    Ordinal : dàrna

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish , from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Numeral[edit]

  1. (cardinal) two

Usage notes[edit]

  • Used before a noun; dhà is used when free-standing (counting, telling a row of numerals etc).
    Tha chàr aige.‎ ― He has two cars.
    Tha a dhà aice cuideachd.‎ ― She has two as well.
    Fòn a h-aon, a h-aon, a dhà!‎ ― Phone one-one-two!
  • The following noun is in the singular dative case, lenited.
    balach‎ ― boy → bhalach‎ ― two boys
    cailleag‎ ― girl → chaileig‎ ― two girls
  • The definite article, if used, is in the singular form:
    an chaileig‎ ― the two girls
  • If followed by a pronoun, the pronoun is in the plural:
    an dhiubh‎ ― the two of them
    Bhiodh e na b' fheàrr nan gabhadh an rud an dealachadh.‎ ― It would be better if the two things could be separated.

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • ” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.