# ta'
## Danish
### Verb

ta'
* Eye dialect spelling of tage.

## Maltese
### Alternative forms

* t’ (used before vowels)

### Etymology

From older Maltese bita, mita, from Arabic مَتَاع (matāʕ, “thing, possession”). Compare Tunisian Arabic متاع (mtāʕ), Moroccan Arabic تاع (tāʕ), نتاع (ntāʕ), North Levantine Arabic تاع (tāʕ), Egyptian Arabic بتاع (bitāʕ), all used as possessive markers.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taː/
* Usually unstressed and then automatically shortened to /ta/.
* Homophone: ta

### Preposition

ta’
* Expresses the possessive or genitive: of, 's
    il-qabar ta’ Xmun ― Simon’s grave
    il-fehma tiegħu ― his opinion (literally, “the opinion of him”)
    il-parti kbira tan-nies ― the majority of people
    stejjer tal-waħx ― horror stories (literally, “stories of horror”)
* Used to connect an attributive adverb with its noun.
    it-temp ta’ għada ― tomorrow’s weather
    il-ħajja ta’ kuljum ― everyday life (literally, “the life of everyday”)
* Used to connect an attributive prepositional phrase with its noun (in this case more idiomatically restricted).
    id-dinja ta’ madwarek ― the world around you (literally, “the world of around you”)
    ir-rabta ta’ bejnietna ― the bond between us (literally, “the bond of between us”)
    nisa ta’ taħt il-21 sena ― women under 21 years (literally, “women of under 21 years”)
    it-tlieta ta’ filgħodu ― three a.m. (literally, “three of in the morning”)
* Used to form occupational nouns
    tal-ħanut ― grocer
    tal-ħalib ― milkman
    tal-ġobon ― cheesemonger
    tal-baħar ― seaman
    tax-xema’ ― candlemaker
    taċ-ċiċri ― roasted chickpeas seller
    tal-biljetti ― bus conductor
    tal-kagħak ― kagħak seller
    tal-karawett ― peanut seller

#### Usage notes

* Pronominal inflections of ta’ are used as possessive determiners in Maltese. Alternatively, as in other Semitic languages, the pronominal suffixes may be added directly to the noun:
** The use of ta’ is rare in cases of inalienable possession, especially with body parts and relatives; thus usually rasi (“my head”), ruħek (“your soul”), ommu (“his mother”). This is true even for most borrowed words in these semantic fields such as spallti (“my shoulder”), missierna (“our father”). Some forms are common, however, e.g. il-ħajja tagħha (“her life”) alongside ħajjitha.
** For the bulk of the vocabulary, both ways are equally possible. Overall the construction with ta’ is preferred, but this is not true of all words, not even all borrowings; for example, pajjiżna (“our country”) is preferred over il-pajjiż tagħna. The use of pronominal suffixes remains at any rate much commoner in Maltese than in Modern Hebrew. That said, many words have no common pronominal form and only ta’ is used with them. This is true especially of infrequent words, recent borrowings, words in vowels other than -a, etc.

#### Inflection

Inflected forms of ta' :
| Personal-pronoun- including forms | Personal-pronoun- including forms | singular | singular | plural | plural |
| Personal-pronoun- including forms | Personal-pronoun- including forms | m | f | plural | plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | tiegħi | tiegħi | tagħna | tagħna |
| 2nd person | 2nd person | tiegħek | tiegħek | tagħkom | tagħkom |
| 3rd person | 3rd person | tiegħu | tagħha | tagħhom | tagħhom |
| Definite forms ||||||
| Xemxin | Xemxin | Xemxin | Xemxin | Qamrin | Qamrin |
| taċ- · tad- · tan- tar- · tas- · tat- · tax- · taz- · taż- | taċ- · tad- · tan- tar- · tas- · tat- · tax- · taz- · taż- | taċ- · tad- · tan- tar- · tas- · tat- · tax- · taz- · taż- | taċ- · tad- · tan- tar- · tas- · tat- · tax- · taz- · taż- | tal- | tal- | tal- | tal- |

#### Derived terms

* tabilħaqq
* talanqas
* talli
* tassew

### Noun

ta’ m
* family
    tagħha ― her family