I already talked in a previous post about the basic structure of the sentence in Amharic and now is time to see how verbs are formed. Grammar is complicated because we need to consider many variables. These variables are gender (masculine/feminine), plural or singular, informal or formal, etc. To form the different combinations, suffixes and [...]

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Besides the symbols we already studied with their seven orders, there are special symbols for the combination of certain consonants and the sound “wa”.The “letters wa” are formed by adding an horizontal or vertical  line on top or under the simbol. This is the list of letters, and some of them have a variation in [...]

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Besides the 33 traditional symbols of the Amharic alphabet, there is another one that is equivalent to the letter V in the Latin alphabet. This symbol is used in words derived from foreign languages, like the words “university”, “television”, etc. It’s used to describe things with [...]

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The word order inside a sentence in Amharic is different than in English. Generally the verb goes at the end of the sentence and the structure is: Subject / Object / Verb.For example:

Sentence
“I am a student”

Amharic

ïne
tämari
näñ

እኔ
ተማሪ
ነኝ

“ene temari negn”

Literally

I
student
am

Subject
Object
Verb

If we now add an adjective to the sentence, it will go before the object:

Sentence
“He is [...]

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