Contionary:la

Avendonian

Pronunciation

• (Central Avendonian) IPA^(key): [la]

Article

la

1. feminine singular definite article

Inflection

Avendonian definite articles

	masculine	feminine
singular	el	la
plural	li	le

Bemé

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Bemetak) IPA^(key): [la]

Polysemant

la

1. (before a verb) forms a conditional verb

   Mi la puchinam amo ey mi ab teym.

   "I would travel more if I had the time."

2. (after a verb) forms a yes-no question

   Takin la Bemeh?

   "Do you speak Bemé?"

3. (at the end of a sentence without interrogatives) forms a question

   Yeh, ba yu tink dag bi deti edag la?

   "Yes, but do you consider a dog to be a dirty animal?" - John Travolta, Pulp Fiction

Braereth

Pronunciation & Variants

Official	Classical	Tenibvreth	Eomentesa	Merineth
/la/	[la]	[lə] ⟪la⟫	[la] ⟨la⟩	[la] ⧼la⧽

Etymology

From Latin illa

Determiner

la

1. the

   The feminine singular definite article. Becomes l’ before a vowel.

Declension

	The Definite Article (“the”)			The Indefinite Article (“a, an, some”)
	Masculine	Feminine		Masculine	Feminine
Singular	lu, l’*	la, l’*		un, n’*	una, n’*
Plural	lis	les		unis	unes

* Form used before a vowel.

Coordinate Terms

• lu ‘the (masculine singular)’

Pronoun

la

1. her

   Third person singular feminine direct objective pronoun.

Coordinate Terms

• le ‘him’

Hakdor

Pronunciation

• Hakdor Phonology: /la/ ([la])

Etymology

From Imperial la ‘which’.

Conjunction

la

1. that, which

   A conjunction which precedes a relative clause.

Modern Standard Imperial

Pronunciation

(Modern Standard Imperial) IPA: /la/

Adverb

la

1. which, what

   Interrogative particle.

Reneissan

Pronunciation

(Reneissan) IPA: /la/

Determiner

la (masculine singular il, masculine plural i, feminine plural lai, prevocalic singular l', prevocalic plural lais)

1. the; masculine singular definite article

Toki Pona

Etymology

From Esperanto or Romance definite article. Created by Sonja Lang pre-pu.

Pronunciation

(Toki Pona) IPA: /la/

Particle

la

1. mark the previous statement as context to the following statement