ambii
Italian
Verb
ambii
- first-person singular past historic of ambire
Latin
Verb
ambiī
- first-person singular perfect active indicative of ambiō
Romanian
Alternative forms
- амбий (ambii) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian ambe and Latin ambō. Doublet of îmbi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈam.bij/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ambii
Determiner
ambii m pl (plural only, feminine/neuter ambele)
Usage notes
Ambii always precedes the noun it modifies. It is universally used in the definite; indefinite use is rare and obsolete.
Ambii is more characteristic of formal language than amândoi, but it is not unusual in informal usage either.
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | — | — | — | — | |||
| definite | — | — | ambii | ambele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | — | — | — | — | |||
| definite | — | — | ambilor | ambelor | ||||
Pronoun
ambii m pl (plural only, feminine/neuter ambele)
References
- “ambii”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026