# ona
## Azerbaijani
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

ona
* dative of o

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

ona
* absolutive singular of on

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin unda, from Proto-Indo-European *unt-. Doublet of onda, a semi-learned form.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈo.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈo.na]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ona

### Noun

ona f (plural ones)
* wave

#### Derived terms

* microona
* ona curta
* ona de ràdio
* ona llarga
* ona mitjana
* ona portadora
* onada
* oneig

#### Related terms

* ondós
* ondulació
* onejar

### References

* “ona” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “ona”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “ona” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “ona” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Chickasaw
### Noun

ona
* tomorrow

## Choctaw
### Verb

ona
* to go

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech ona, from Proto-Slavic *ona.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈona]
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

ona f
* she (third person feminine singular personal pronoun)

#### Declension

$^1$After a preposition.

### Pronoun

ona n pl
* they (third person neuter plural personal pronoun)

#### Declension

$^1$After a preposition.

#### Related terms

$^1$ animate referents only, for inanimate ones ony is used.

### Pronoun

ona
* inflection of onen:
** nominative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative neuter plural

### Further reading

* “ona”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “ona”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “ona”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Garo
### Verb

ona
* to be low (not high)
* to be low, humble
* to be short (not tall)
* to descend

#### Antonyms

* chua

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈo.na/, [ˈo.nə]

### Pronoun

ona
* his, her, its (o-type possessive)

#### Usage notes

* Used after negatives, numbers, locative nouns, certain prepositions, and after nouns preceded by an article or a k-determiner.

#### Related terms

* kona

### Verb

ona
* (transitive) infatuated, attracted

## Japanese
### Romanization

ona
* Rōmaji transcription of おな

## Kikuyu
### Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuona “find” and kuonna “see” as equivalents of English find and see in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Swahili kuona (“to find, to see”) as their equivalent.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔna/

### Verb

ona (infinitive kuona or kũona)
* to see
* to find
* to get into, to find oneself (unusual situation)

#### Synonyms

* (to see): kũrora

#### Derived terms

(Verbs)
* kuonana
* kuonia
(Nouns)
* kĩoneki class 7
(Proverbs)
* kũona kĩmera ti kuo gũkĩrĩa
* kuona kuonagia mũndũ njĩra

### References

* ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 24–25, 52–53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* 1 2 Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
* 1 2 Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 36.
* 1 2 3 “ona” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 359. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

## Northern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jóna.

### Verb

-óma
* to spoil
* to sin

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Old Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ona.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈona/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈona/

### Pronoun

ona f sg or m du or n pl (third person)
* she (feminine singular)
* they two (masculine dual)
* they (neuter plural)

#### Descendants

* Czech: ona

### Pronoun

ona
* inflection of onen:
** nominative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative masculine dual
** nominative/accusative neuter plural

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ona. The oblique case forms come from Proto-Slavic *ja.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔ.na/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔna
* Syllabification: o‧na

### Pronoun

ona f (masculine on, neuter ono)
* she (for animate nouns), it (for inanimate feminine nouns)

#### Declension
### See also

* Appendix:Polish pronouns

### Further reading

* ona in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ona.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǒna/
* Hyphenation: o‧na

### Pronoun

òna (Cyrillic spelling о̀на)
* she
* they (nominative plural of òno (“it”))

#### Declension
## Shona
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna. Cognate to Zulu -bona.

### Verb

-óná (infinitive kuóná)
* to see

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ona.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɔna]

### Pronoun

ona f
* feminine nominative singular of on (“she”)

#### Related terms

* masculine animate only, ony otherwise

### Further reading

* “ona”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ona.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔ̀ːna/

### Pronoun

óna
* she
* nominative plural of ono

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “ona”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “ona”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jóna.

### Verb

-ôna
* to destroy, to damage, to spoil

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna. Cognate to Zulu -bona.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-ona (infinitive kuona)
* to see, to find
* to feel, to perceive

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -ona :
| Positive present | -naona |
| Subjunctive | -one |
| Negative | -oni |
| Imperative singular | ona |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuona |
| Negative | kutoona |
Imperatives :
| Singular | ona |
| Plural | oneni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huona |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -liona |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuona |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -taona |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -taona |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sione |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngeona |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singeona |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngaliona |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singaliona |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -meona |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshaona |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jaona |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kiona |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipoona |
| Consecutive | kaona / positive subject concord + -kaona |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kaone |
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: -onea (“look at; feel toward; be hostile to”)
** Causative: -onyesha (“show”), -onesha
** Passive: -onwa (“be seen”)
** Reciprocal: -onana, -onekana (“be visible; seem”)
** Other formations: -onya (“warn, admonish”)
* Nominal derivations:
** maoni (“opinion, comment”)
** maono (“image”)

## Swedish
### Noun

ona
* definite plural of o

### Anagrams

* Noa

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English honor.

### Noun

ona
* honor; glory; praise

## Tokelauan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈo.na]
* Hyphenation: o‧na

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Samoan ʻona.

#### Conjunction

ona
* because

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Samoan ona.

#### Particle

ona
* Introduces subordinate clauses after mafai, tatau, faigatā and faigofie.

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Polynesian *o-na. Cognates include Hawaiian ona and Samoan ona.

#### Pronoun

o ona
* (inalienable) his, hers

##### See also

$^{1)}$ Sympathetic *) Only the singular pronouns differ from the personal pronouns

#### Determiner

ona
* (inalienable) his, her
** 1948, Tūlāfono fakavae a Tokelau [Constitution of Tokelau]‎, page 1:Ko te fakavae tenei e matea i nā nuku ma kafai ona tagata e faifaimea fakatahi, ma nonofo fakatahi i te filemu ma te fiafia.This foundation is recognised in the villages and if its people repeatedly do things together, and [if] they live together in peace and happiness.

##### See also

$^{1)}$ Sympathetic

### References

* R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 37

## Tooro
### Etymology

Inherited from Common Bantu *jónà, variant of Proto-Bantu *-ncè (*-ncè > *-jéncè > *-jóncè > *-jóncà > *-jónà).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /óːna/

### Determiner

-ona
* all, whole, entire
    omuti gwona ― (the) whole tree
    abantu boona ― all (the) people
* (in the singular) any, every
    Synonym: buli
    omuti gwona ― every tree

#### Inflection

| Person | Person | Singular | Plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | nyeena | itwena |
| 2nd person | 2nd person | weena | inywena |
| 3rd person | 1/2 | weena | boona |
| 3rd person | 3/4 | gwona | yoona |
| 3rd person | 5/6 | lyona | goona |
| 3rd person | 7/8 | kyona | byona |
| 3rd person | 9/10 | yoona | zoona |
| 3rd person | 11/10 | rwona | zoona |
| 3rd person | 12/14 | koona | bwona |
| 3rd person | 13 | | twona |
| 3rd person | 14/6 | bwona | goona |
| 3rd person | 15/6 | kwona | goona |
| 3rd person | 16 | hoona | |

### References

* Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 433-434
* Entry 3548 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3

## Turkish
### Etymology

dative of o

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

ona
* to him

## Uzbek
### Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai [Term?], from Proto-Turkic *ana (“mother”). Cognate with Uyghur ئانا / ana / ана (ana).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɒ.na/, [ɒ̽.nɐ]
* Hyphenation: o‧na

### Noun

ona (plural onalar)
* mother

#### Declension
## Vilamovian
### Etymology

From Middle High German āne, from Old High German āna, ānu, āno (“without”), from Proto-Germanic *ēnu, *ēnō (“without”), from Proto-Indo-European *anew, *enew (“without”). Cognate with German ohne.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Preposition

ona
* without, lacking

## Volapük
### Pronoun

ona
* (possessive) (genitive singular of on) its

#### Synonyms

* onik

## Xhosa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jóna.

### Verb

-ôna
* (transitive) to do wrong
* (intransitive) to sin

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jóna.

### Verb

-ôna
* (transitive) to ruin, to spoil
* (intransitive) to sin

#### Inflection
### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “ona”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “ona (6.3)”