dà

See also: da and Appendix:Variations of "da"

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin dāre, present active infinitive of dō (“give”).

Verb

dà

to give

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da‿|| da/

Verb

dà

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

References

dà in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

AD, ad

Ladin

Verb

dà

third-person singular present indicative of dé
third-person plural present indicative of dé
second-person singular imperative of dé

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian dare, from Latin.

Verb

dà

to give

Mandarin

Alternative forms

da (nonstandard)

Romanization

dà (da⁴, Zhuyin ㄉㄚˋ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 大.
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 汏.
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 眔.

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin dāre, present active infinitive of dō (“give”).

Verb

dà

to give

Sassarese

Etymology

From Latin dare, present active infinitive of dō (“I give”), from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, derived from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da/

Verb

dà

(transitive) to give

Conjugation

Conjugation of dà

		singular			plural
infinitive	simple	dà
infinitive	compound	abé + past participle
gerund	simple	dendi
gerund	compound	abendi + past participle
past participle		daddu
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		eu, éiu	tu	eddu/edda	noi	voi	eddi
(simple tenses)	present	doggu	dai	dazi	demmu	deddi	dàzini
	imperfect	dazia, daziu	dazì	dazia	dazìami	dazìaddi	dazìani
	past historic¹	desi	desi	desi	désimi	désiddi	désini
	future	daràggiu	daré	darà	daremu	dareddi	darani
		present indicative of abé + a dà
		future indicative of abé + a dà
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of abé + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of abé + past participle
	past anterior¹	past historic indicative of abé + past participle
	future perfect	future of abé + past participle
		present of abé + a + abé + past participle
		future of abé + a + abé + past participle
conditional		eu, éiu	tu	eddu/edda	noi	voi	eddi
present		darìsthia, daria	daristhi, darì	darìsthia, daria	darìsthiami, darìami	darìsthiaddi, darìaddi	darìsthiani, darìani
perfect		present conditional of abé + past participle
subjunctive		chi eu, chi éiu	chi tu	chi eddu/edda	chi noi	chi voi	chi eddi
(simple tenses)	present	dògghia	dògghi	dògghia	dògghiami	dògghiaddi	dògghiani
(simple tenses)	imperfect	dessi, déssia	dessi	dessi, déssia	déssimi, déssiami	déssiddi, déssiaddi	déssini, déssiani
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of abé + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of abé + past participle
imperative		éiu, eu	tu	eddu/edda	noi	voi	eddi
imperative		—	dà, no dà	dògghia	demmu	deddi	dògghiani
1. Chiefly archaic, and generally replaced by the pluperfect

References

Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Scottish Gaelic

**Scottish Gaelic cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : dà Ordinal : dàrna

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /taː/

Numeral

dà

two

Usage notes

Used before a noun; dhà is used when free-standing (counting, telling a row of numerals etc).
Tha dà 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 → dà bhalach ― two boys

cailleag ― girl → dà chaileig ― two girls
The definite article, if used, is in the singular form:
an dà chaileig ― the two girls
If followed by a pronoun, the pronoun is in the plural:
an dà dhiubh ― the two of them

Bhiodh e na b' fheàrr nan gabhadh an dà rud an dealachadh. ― It would be better if the two things could be separated.

Derived terms

an dà chuid (“both”)
an dà latha (“great change”)
bèist-dà-leann (“tapeworm”)
carbon dà ogsaid (“carbon dioxide”)
dà bhliadhnail (“biennial”, adjective)
dà- (“bi-, di-, two-”)
dà dheug (“twelve”)
dà dhusan dheug (“gross, 144”)
dà fhichead (“forty”)
dàrna (“second”)
dithis (“two [persons]”)
eadar dà sgeul (“incidentally”)
lus dà bhliadhnail (“biennial”, noun)

References

Edward Dwelly (1911), “dà”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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