dá
See also: Appendix:Variations of "da"
Czech
Galician
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tauː/
- Rhymes: -auː
Declension
Synonyms
- (coma): dauðadá n, svefndá n
Derived terms
See also
- stjarfi
- svefnhöfgi
Verb
dá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dáði, supine dáð)
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Irish
Alternative forms
Conjunction
dá (triggers eclipsis of a following consonant and takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)
- 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.
Usage notes
- Used in counterfactual conditionals with the conditional or past subjunctive.
Contraction
dá
- 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), Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea by Will Collins, →ISBN:
- 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.
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- ‘to their’ (triggers eclipsis)
- ‘to which’ (triggers eclipsis, takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)
- 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)
- 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”)
- 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”)
Related terms
Irish preposition contractions
Basic form | Contracted with | Copular forms | ||||||||
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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”) | den | de na desna* | de mo dem* | de do ded*, det* | dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
do (“to, for”) | don | do na dosna* | do mo dom* | do do dod*, dot* | dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
faoi (“under, about”) | faoin | faoi na | faoi mo | faoi do | faoina | faoinár | faoinar | faoinarb | faoinarbh | |
fara (“along with, beside”) | fairis an | fairis na | fara mo | fara do | farana | faranár | faranar | faranarb | faranarbh | |
i (“in”) | sa, san | sna | i mo im* | i do id*, it* | ina | inár | inar | inarb | inarbh | |
le (“with”) | leis an | leis na | le mo lem* | le do led*, let* | lena | lenár | lenar | lenarb | lenarbh | |
ó (“from, since”) | ón | ó na ósna* | ó mo óm* | ó do ód*, ót* | óna | ónár | ónar | ónarb | ónarbh | |
trí (“through”) | tríd an | trí na | trí mo | trí do | trína | trínár | trínar | trínarb | trínarbh | |
*Dialectal. |
Lashi
Postposition
dá
Mandarin
Romanization
dá (Zhuyin ㄉㄚˊ)
- Pinyin transcription of 劄
- Pinyin transcription of 匒
- Pinyin transcription of 呾
- Pinyin transcription of 妲
- Pinyin transcription of 怛
- Pinyin transcription of 打
- Pinyin transcription of 沓
- Pinyin transcription of 溚
- Pinyin transcription of 炟
- Pinyin transcription of 畗
- Pinyin transcription of 畣
- Pinyin transcription of 瘨
- Pinyin transcription of 笪
- Pinyin transcription of 答
- Pinyin transcription of 箒
- Pinyin transcription of 繨
- Pinyin transcription of 羆
- Pinyin transcription of 胃
- Pinyin transcription of 荄
- Pinyin transcription of 荙
- Pinyin transcription of 薘
- Pinyin transcription of 蟽
- Pinyin transcription of 褟
- Pinyin transcription of 詚
- Pinyin transcription of 达
- Pinyin transcription of 迖
- Pinyin transcription of 逹, 達
- Pinyin transcription of 鄽
- Pinyin transcription of 酃
- Pinyin transcription of 鐽, 𫟼
- Pinyin transcription of 靼
- Pinyin transcription of 鞑, 韃
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈtaː/
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *dwau, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daː/
Numeral
< 1 | 2 | 3 > |
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Cardinal : dá Ordinal : tánaise | ||
dá (governing a noun like a determiner)
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)
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
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. |
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈda/
Verb
dá
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of dar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of dar
- Apocopic form of dar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
- Eye dialect spelling of dar, representing Brazilian Portuguese.
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