"-a-" meaning in Chichewa

See -a- in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Infix

Head templates: {{head|ny|infix}} -a-
  1. Forms the past perfect tense in verbs. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--a--ny-infix-7CNN-FTY Categories (other): Chichewa entries with incorrect language header, Chichewa infixes

Download JSON data for -a- meaning in Chichewa (0.5kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ny",
        "2": "infix"
      },
      "expansion": "-a-",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chichewa",
  "lang_code": "ny",
  "pos": "infix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chichewa entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chichewa infixes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Forms the past perfect tense in verbs."
      ],
      "id": "en--a--ny-infix-7CNN-FTY",
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-a-"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ny",
        "2": "infix"
      },
      "expansion": "-a-",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chichewa",
  "lang_code": "ny",
  "pos": "infix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chichewa entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chichewa infixes",
        "Chichewa lemmas"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Forms the past perfect tense in verbs."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-a-"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chichewa dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.