Bengenese-English Dictionary

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The Bengenese-English Dictionary is edited and published by the Bengenese Language Council, containing lemmas, inflection classes, English translations and definitions, and etymological information.


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Dictionary abbreviations

  • S — subject
  • DO — direct object
  • IO — indirect object
  • OP — object of a preposition
  • V — verb
  • LOC — location
  • C — clause or sentence
  • pst. part. — past participle

About Stem information

The Stem field provides information about the root or stem of a declinable Bengenese words, namely nouns, adjectives, determiners, and verbs. The declension class of a noun, adjective or determiner is indicated by a Roman numeral from I to XVI (some include lower-case letters), accounting for a total of 22 declension classes. Verbs belong to one of five conjugation class depending on their ending, identified by Arabic numerals (1–5). A hyphen is used to separate the stem from the declension/conjugation class.