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dá

See also: Variations of "da"

dá - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈdaː]

Verb

dá

  1. third-person singular present indicative of dát

dá - Dakota

Verb

dá

  1. ask for, request, demand

dá - Galician

Verb

dá

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

dá - Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /tauː/

Noun

dá n (genitive singular dás, no plural)

  1. coma

Declension

n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative dá dáið
accusative dá dáið
dative dái dáinu
genitive dás dásins

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • liggja í dái (to be in a coma, lit. to lie in a coma)
  • falla í dá (to fall into a coma)

Verb

dá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dáði, supine dáð)

  1. to adore, admire greatly
  2. to worship
    • Ég dái þig.
      • I worship you.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

dá - Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /d̪ˠɑː/
  • (Ulster) IPA: /d̪ˠaː/

Conjunction

dá (triggers eclipsis of a following consonant and takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)

  1. if
    • Dá gcuirfeann sé fearthainne anois, d’osclófainn mo scáth fearthainne.
      • If it were raining now, I would open my umbrella.
    • Dá dtéiteá ar an aonach, b’fhéidir leat gamhain a dhíol.
      • If you had gone to the market, you could have sold a calf.
  2. when (relative, with past tenses)
    • lá dá raibh sé ann
      • one day when he was there

Usage notes

  • Used in counterfactual conditionals with the conditional or past subjunctive.
  • In the meaning ‘when’ used virtually only in the past tense after the word lá (“day”), in Early Modern Irish also with feacht (“time, occasion”); in other contexts, especially at the head of sentence, nuair or an tan is used instead.

Alternative forms

Contraction

dá

  1. Contraction of do + a (various meanings)
    • ‘to his, to its’ (triggers lenition)
    • ‘to her, to its’ (triggers h-prothesis)
      • 2015, Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, transl.; Maura McHugh, editor, Amhrán na Mara (fiction, paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny; Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea by Will Collins, →ISBN, page 1:
        • Thuas i dteach an tsolais, faoi réaltaí geala, canann Bronach Amhrán na Mara dá mac Ben atá cúig bliana d'aois.
          • Up in the lighthouse, under twinkling stars, Bronach sings the Song of the Sea to her five-year-old son, Ben.
    • ‘to their’ (triggers eclipsis)
    • ‘to which’ (triggers eclipsis, takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)
  2. Contraction of de + a (various meanings)
    • ‘from his, from its’ (triggers lenition)
    • ‘from her, from its’ (triggers h-prothesis)
    • ‘from their’ (triggers eclipsis)
    • ‘from which’ (triggers eclipsis, takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)
  3. used with an abstract noun (which undergoes lenition) to denote a degree, equivalent to English however (“to whatever extent or degree”)
    • dá fhad an bhóthar ― however long the road (literally, “from its length the road”)
  4. used with an abstract noun (which undergoes lenition) followed by is ea is or just is to form the equivalent of English the... the...
    • dá luaithe (is ea) is fearr ― the sooner the better (literally, “from its earliness the better”)

Alternative forms

Basic form Contracted with Copular forms
an (“the sg”)na (“the pl”)mo (“my”)do (“your”)a (“his, her, their; which (present)”)ár (“our”)ar (“which (past)”)(before consonant)(present/future before vowel)(past/conditional before vowel)
de (“from”)dende na desna*de mo dem*de do ded*, det*dá dárdardarbdarbh
do (“to, for”)dondo na dosna*do mo dom*do do dod*, dot*dá dárdardarbdarbh
faoi (“under, about”)faoinfaoi nafaoi mofaoi dofaoinafaoinár faoinarfaoinarbfaoinarbh
i (“in”)sa, sansnai mo im*i do id*, it*inainár inarinarbinarbh
le (“with”)leis anleis nale mo lem*le do led*, let*lenalenár lenarlenarblenarbh
ó (“from, since”)ónó na ósna*ó mo óm*ó do ód*, ót*ónaónár ónarónarbónarbh
trí (“through”)tríd antrí natrí motrí dotrínatrínár trínartrínarbtrínarbh
*Dialectal.

Numeral

dá

  1. Alternative form of dhá (“two”) (used after an, aon, and chéad (“first”)).

dá - Lashi

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /da/

Postposition

dá

  1. Used after an attribute. Indicates that the previous word has possession of the next one. It functions like ’s in English (or like the word “of” but with the position of possessor and possessee switched). ’s; of

dá - Mandarin

Alternative forms

  • da – nonstandard

Romanization

dá (da2, Zhuyin ㄉㄚˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羍
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荅
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 劄
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匒
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呾
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 妲
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怛
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 打
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 沓
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 溚
  11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 炟
  12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 畗
  13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 畣
  14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瘨
  15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 笪
  16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 答
  17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 箒／帚
  18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繨／𫄤
  19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羆／罴
  20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 胃
  21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荄
  22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荙
  23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薘／荙
  24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟽
  25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 褟
  26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詚
  27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 达
  28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 迖
  29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逹, 達／达
  30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鄽
  31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酃
  32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鐽／𫟼
  33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 靼
  34. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 韃／鞑
  35. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瘩

dá - Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈtaː/

Adverb

dá

  1. here

dá - Old Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /daː/

Numeral

dá (governing a noun like a determiner)

  1. two

Declension

Case Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative Accusative dáL díL dáN
Genitive dáL dáN
Dative dibN
L = Triggers lenition N = Triggers nasalization (eclipsis)

Synonyms

  • dáu (used pronominally)

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
dá dá pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ ndá
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

dá - Pite Sami

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈtaː/

Pronoun

dá

  1. these

Declension

singular plural
Nominative dát dá, dáh
Genitive dán dáj
Accusative dáv dájt
Illative dása dájda
Inessive dán dájtne
Elative dásste dájste
Comitative dájna dáj

dá - Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • da (obsolete)
  • dah (Brazil, Internet slang)

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA: /ˈda/
  • (Portugal) IPA: /ˈda/
  • Homophone: dar (Brazil)
  • Hyphenation: dá

Verb

dá

  1. inflection of dar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. Apocopic form of dar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
  3. Eye dialect spelling of dar, representing Brazil Portuguese.
Meaning and Definition of dá
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