Greetings in Tigrigna are basically of two types. There are few that could be used in all occasions like “dehan’do”, “selam” and so on; other expressions are related to the time of day when the greetings is expressed.

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In Tigrigna there is no definite article used in quite the same way as the English ‘the “, it uses instead the demonstrative pronouns or demonstrative adjective as an article.

This demonstrative pronoun corresponds to the English pronouns before noun or adjective. As you have seen from the personal pronouns, Tigrigna has got also two genders in relation to demonstrative pronouns like izi geza (m) and iza computer (f). There are also demonstrative pronouns for plural and formal ones.

Likewise, there is also demonstrative pronouns that correspond to the English “that” iti geza means that house and itia computer means that computer (m). There are also forms for plural as well as for formal ones.