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čen

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Votic

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The spelling of this entry has been normalized from tšen according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:Votic entry guidelines or recent spelling standards of the language.

Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *ken, from Proto-Uralic *ke.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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čen

  1. (interrogative) who
  2. (relative) who, that
  3. (indefinite) someone, somebody, anyone, anybody

Inflection

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Inflection of čen
singular plural
nominative čen čed
čened
genitive čene
accusative čene
partitive četä
illative čenne
čenese
inessive čenez
elative čeness
allative čelle
adessive čell
ablative čelt
translative čenessi
'Standardized' inflection based on the Vaipooli dialects; see WT:AVOT.
For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects.
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

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  • Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “tšen”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎[1], 2nd edition, Tallinn