kien
Bau Bidayuh
[edit]Noun
[edit]kien
- fish (vertebrate animal)
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]kien
Usage notes
[edit]Like other interrogative and relative correlatives, kien can be combined with ajn, the adverbial particle of generality. Kien ajn thus means "(to) wherever" or "whitherever".
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Esperanto correlatives
Interrogative | Demonstrative | Indefinite | Universal | Negative | ||
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ki- | ti- | i- | ĉi- | neni- | ||
Kind of, sort of | -a | kia | tia | ia | ĉia | nenia |
Reason | -al | kial | tial | ial | ĉial | nenial |
Time | -am | kiam | tiam | iam | ĉiam | neniam |
Place | -e | kie | tie | ie | ĉie | nenie |
Motion | -en | kien | tien | ien | ĉien | nenien |
Manner | -el | kiel | tiel | iel | ĉiel | neniel |
Possessive | -es | kies | ties | ies | ĉies | nenies |
Demonstrative pronoun | -o | kio | tio | io | ĉio | nenio |
Amount | -om | kiom | tiom | iom | ĉiom | neniom |
Demonstrative determiner | -u | kiu | tiu | iu | ĉiu | neniu |
Javanese
[edit]Determiner
[edit]kien
Maltese
[edit]Root |
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k-w-n |
4 terms |
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]kien (imperfect jkun, verbal noun kewn or kjien)
- to be
- 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:
- Missieri kien niżel jiġri isfel, ħareġ fuq l-għatba u beda jsejjaħ lill-pulizija biex iwissihom b’dan il-periklu.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2018, Antoinette Borg, Amina, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:
- Imnalla għajjatlu Fredu u kellu jwaqqaf l-eloġju ta’ nannuh, għax naħseb l-istorja li kien imiss kienet li għandu xi gżira privata.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]- When used as an independent verb, the imperfect form of kien has the sense of the future: Inkun miljunarju. – “I will be a millionaire.” The present tense is expressed by the subject pronouns without a verb: Jien miljunarju. – “I am a millionaire.”
- As a subordinate verb, the imperfect of kien is used in the normal fashion: Irrid inkun miljunarju. – “I want to be a millionaire.” The same is true of the perfect: Kont miljunarju. — “I was a millionaire.”
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of kien | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | kont | kont | kien | konna | kontu | kienu | |
f | kienet | |||||||
imperfect | m | nkun | tkun | jkun | nkunu | tkunu | jkunu | |
f | tkun | |||||||
imperative | kun | kunu |
Derived terms
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]kien
- Alternative form of kyne
Volapük
[edit]Noun
[edit]kien (nominative plural kiens)
- knee
Declension
[edit]Categories:
- Bau Bidayuh lemmas
- Bau Bidayuh nouns
- sne:Fish
- sne:Vertebrates
- Esperanto terms suffixed with -n
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Esperanto/ien
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto adverbs
- Javanese lemmas
- Javanese determiners
- Cirebon Javanese
- Maltese terms belonging to the root k-w-n
- Maltese terms inherited from Arabic
- Maltese terms derived from Arabic
- Maltese 1-syllable words
- Maltese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Maltese terms with audio pronunciation
- Maltese lemmas
- Maltese verbs
- Maltese terms with quotations
- Maltese form-I verbs
- Maltese hollow form-I verbs
- Maltese hollow verbs
- Middle English non-lemma forms
- Middle English noun forms
- Volapük lemmas
- Volapük nouns