Contionary:man

Niemish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /man/

Etymology

From Gothic manna. Doublet of mànn ("man").

Pronoun

² màn n.m. hard stem

1. one, someone, they, an unspecified individual or group of people: indefinite personal pronoun

   Man kidt e... ("It is said that…")

Usage notes

• Man is only used in the nominative case; for the oblique cases, forms of the pronoun en are used. For example: Man ne mach all tids toje, hat an szwegen makt. ("One cannot always do what makes one happy").

Pronunciation

• IPA: /maːn/

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mainą.

Noun

² mán n.n. syncopating hard stem

1. false witness, perjury

Declension

declension of mán (mh declension, uncountable)
	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	mán	mánat
genitive	mä́ns	mä́nes
dative	mán	mánum