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Amharic alphabet and characters

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The Amharic alphabet characters

Amharic grammar rules

Amharic has a complex inflectional morphology, employing prepositions and postpositions to mark relations in sentences.

Nouns

Nouns have two numbers: singular and plural. There are four cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, and vocative.

There are two genders – masculine and feminine.

The definiteness is marked by suffixes.

Verbs

Amharic formatting rules

Date formats

First day of the week	Sunday
Short date format	dd/MM/yyyy
	e.g. 17/03/2011
Long date format	dd MMMM yyyy
	e.g. 17 መጋቢት 2011

Numbers and measurements

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Decimal separator	. (period)
	e.g. 11.50
Thousand separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 2,000
Currency name	Ethiopian Birr
Currency symbol	Br
Currency symbol position	After the figure
	e.g. 500.00 Br