# vaa
## Translingual
### Symbol

vaa
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vaagri Booli.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Vaagri Booli terms

## Ingrian
### Etymology

Related to Finnish vaan and vain.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈʋɑː/, [ˈʋɑː]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈʋɑː/, [ˈʋɑː]
* Rhymes: -ɑː
* Hyphenation: vaa

### Adverb

vaa
* only, merely
** 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:Se ei näytä faktoja vaa sil viisii, kuin neet puuttuut elävääs läkkämyskeelees, vaa se proovajaa i muuttaa faktoja, muuttaa keelen formia mokomiks, jot neet paremmast sluuƶiisivat kulttuuratöös ja kaikkiis ennen șkoulutöös.It doesn't only show facts in the way, how these appear in the living spoken language, but it tries to change the facts, too, to change the forms of a language into such ones so that they may best serve the cultural building and above all school work.
** 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:Möö meinasimma, jot höö vaa näyttäät, etti kaik tiitäät.We thought, that they merely pretended, like they know everything.

#### Synonyms

* ikkee, aima

### Conjunction

vaa
* but
** 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:Se ei näytä faktoja vaa sil viisii, kuin neet puuttuut elävääs läkkämyskeelees, vaa se proovajaa i muuttaa faktoja, muuttaa keelen formia mokomiks, jot neet paremmast sluuƶiisivat kulttuuratöös ja kaikkiis ennen șkoulutöös.It doesn't only show facts in the way, how these appear in the living spoken language, but it tries to change the facts, too, to change the forms of a language into such ones so that they may best serve the cultural building and above all school work.

#### Synonyms

* mut, no

#### Derived terms

* ku vaa

#### Related terms

* vai (“or”)

#### See also

* odnako (“however”)

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 647

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dúada.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-vaa (infinitive kuvaa)
* to wear
* to get dressed

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -vaa :
| Positive present | -navaa |
| Subjunctive | -vae |
| Negative | -vai |
| Imperative singular | vaa |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuvaa |
| Negative | kutovaa |
Imperatives :
| Singular | vaa |
| Plural | vaeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huvaa |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -livaa |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuvaa |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tavaa |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tavaa |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sivae |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngevaa |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singevaa |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalivaa |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalivaa |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mevaa |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshavaa |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -javaa |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kivaa |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipovaa |
| Consecutive | kavaa / positive subject concord + -kavaa |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kavae |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Applicative: -valia
** Causative: -valisha
** Passive: -valiwa
** Stative: -valika
* Nominal derivations:
** uvaaji

## Votic
### Alternative forms

* vaan

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Finnish vaan, vain and Ingrian vaa.

### Pronunciation

* (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA: /ˈvɑː/, [ˈvɑː]
* Rhymes: -ɑː
* Hyphenation: vaa
** (rapid speech) IPA: [ˈvɑ]

### Adverb

vaa
* only, merely, just

### References

* Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “vaa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat, 2nd edition, Tallinn