mai
See also: Variations of "mai"
mai - Translingual
Symbol
mai
- (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Maithili.
mai - English
Determiner
mai
Anagrams
mai - Ajië
Pronunciation
- IPA: [mai]
Adjective
mai
mai - Aragonese
Noun
mai f
mai - Aromanian
Alternative forms
Noun
mai
- May (month)
mai - Atong (India)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /maj/
Noun
mai (Bengali script মায় or মাই)
Alternative forms
Noun
mai (Bengali script মায় or মাই)
Synonyms
mai - Bamwe
Noun
mai
mai - Bangi
Noun
mai
mai - Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈmaj/
Adverb
mai
- never
- Antonym: sempre
- No ho sabrem mai. ― We'll never know.
- ever
- Synonym: alguna vegada
- Hi has vingut mai, a la festa major? ― Have you ever been to the major festival?
Derived terms
mai - Chuukese
Noun
mai
mai - Dharug
Noun
mai
mai - Estonian
Noun
mai (genitive mai, partitive maid)
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | mai | maid |
accusative | mai | maid |
genitive | mai | maide |
partitive | maid | maisid |
illative | maisse | maidesse |
inessive | mais | maides |
elative | maist | maidest |
allative | maile | maidele |
adessive | maidel | |
ablative | mailt | maidelt |
translative | maiks | maideks |
terminative | maini | maideni |
essive | maina | maidena |
abessive | maita | maideta |
comitative | maiga | maidega |
Synonyms
- lehekuu
- lehehakkamiskuu
- õiekuu
- toomekuu
- meiukuu
- nelipühakuu
mai - Faroese
Noun
mai m
- May (month of the Gregorian calendar)
mai - Fijian
Verb
mai (always together with lako, , as lako mai)
- (intransitive) to come (to move from further away to nearer to)
Preposition
mai
mai - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mɛ/, /me/
Noun
mai m (plural mais)
- May (month)
Derived terms
Descendants
Anagrams
mai - Friulian
Adverb
mai
mai - Galician
Noun
mai f (plural mais)
- Alternative form of nai
mai - Gallo
Pronoun
mai
mai - Garo
Pronoun
mai
mai - Guinea-Bissau Creole
Noun
mai
mai - Hausa
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mâi/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [mâi]
Noun
mâi m (possessed form mâin)
Derived terms
mai - Hawaiian
Particle
mai
- hither, this way, towards the speaker
- Mai mai mai!
- Come in, come in!
- E hoʻolohe mai ana lākou i ka moʻolelo.
- They were listening to the story.
- Mai mai mai!
Usage notes
- Commonly used after verbs that do not need a directional in English.
- Mai and aku may change the meaning of the verb:
- aʻo mai ("to learn") - aʻo aku ("to teach")
- kūʻai mai ("to buy") - kūʻai aku ("to sell")
Synonyms
Antonyms
Preposition
mai
- from (used in the sequence mai...mai or mai...aku)
Verb
mai
- don't Negative imperative followed by a verb
- Mai makaʻu.
- Don't be afraid.
- Mai makaʻu.
mai - Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈmɒji]
- Hyphenation: mai
Adjective
mai (not comparable)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | mai | maiak |
accusative | mait | maiakat |
dative | mainak | maiaknak |
instrumental | maival | maiakkal |
causal-final | maiért | maiakért |
translative | maivá | maiakká |
terminative | maiig | maiakig |
essive-formal | maiként | maiakként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | maiban | maiakban |
superessive | main | maiakon |
adessive | mainál | maiaknál |
illative | maiba | maiakba |
sublative | maira | maiakra |
allative | maihoz | maiakhoz |
elative | maiból | maiakból |
delative | mairól | maiakról |
ablative | maitól | maiaktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular | maié | maiaké |
non-attributive possessive - plural | maiéi | maiakéi |
Anagrams
mai - Iban
Pronunciation
- IPA: /maiʔ/
- Hyphenation: mai
Verb
mai
- to bring
mai - Ingrian
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈmɑi̯/, [ˈmɑi̯]
- (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈmɑi̯/, [ˈmɑi̯]
Noun
mai
Declension
Declension of mai (type 8/maa, no gradation) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | mai | mait |
genitive | main | maijen |
partitive | maita | maita |
illative | maihe | maihe |
inessive | mais | mais |
elative | maist | maist |
allative | maille | maille |
adessive | ||
ablative | mailt | mailt |
translative | maiks | maiks |
essive | mainna, main | mainna, main |
exessive1) | maint | maint |
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. |
mai - Istriot
Adverb
mai
- never (not ever)
mai - Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmaj/
- Hyphenation: mài
Adverb
mai
- never
- ever, always
- used as an intensifier
- Una risposta quanto mai ambigua.
- An ambiguous answer indeed.
- Dove mai si sarà cacciato?
- Where on earth did he end up?
Related terms
- casomai/caso mai
- come mai?
- giammai
- mai dire mai (proverb)
- mai e poi mai
- mai più
- meglio tardi che mai (proverb)
- ormai
- ora o mai più
- quasi mai
Anagrams
mai - Japanese
Romanization
mai
mai - Kabuverdianu
Noun
mai
mai - Kaurna
Noun
mai
mai - Kedah Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mai/
Verb
mai
- Come, present (at here), attend, be (here)
- Hang nak gebang aku eh, kata nak mai, batang hidung pun tak nampak!
- You said that you're gonna come, but I didn't see you anywhere!
- Depa mai ka dak ni; dah cemuih dah dok tang ni dok melangut ja.
- Have you seen them (present at here), cause I am bored to death here, just doing nothing.
Interjection
mai
- Come here! Here!
- Mai la sat, aku seghighau satgi depa tabuh aku pulak.
- Please come with me for a second, I'm afraid that they might hit me.
- "Mai la, hang dok takut pa, aku tak buat pa eh," kata Ali kepada kucingnya.
- "Come! What are you so afraid of? I'm not gonna do anything to you," says Ali to his cat.
- Mai la sat, aku seghighau satgi depa tabuh aku pulak.
mai - Khumi Chin
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mai̯˥/
Noun
mai
Derived terms
mai - Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mai/
Noun
mai class 6
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- mbũri ya mai ndĩremaga
mai - Kokborok
Noun
mai
mai - Leonese
Noun
mai f
mai - Malay
Pronunciation
- (Kedah) IPA: [ˈmai̯]
Verb
mai (Jawi spelling ماي)
- (dialectal) to come (to move from further away to nearer to)
Related terms
mai - Mandarin
Romanization
mai
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
mai - Maori
Adverb
mai
mai - Mbandja
Noun
mai
mai - Murui Huitoto
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: [mai̯]
Adverb
mai
- Used to form hortatives of verbs; let's
- Mai jaai! ― Let's go!
mai - Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
mai (indeclinable)
- May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)
mai - Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
mai (indeclinable)
- May (fifth month)
mai - Occitan
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mai/
Adverb
mai
- (Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine, Languedoc) but
- (Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine, Languedoc, Auvergne, Limousin) more
- Synonym: pus
Derived terms
Noun
mai m (plural mais)
- May (month)
mai - Pitjantjatjara
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mai̯/, [mɛɪ]
Noun
mai
mai - Rapa Nui
Preposition
mai
mai - Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmaj/
Noun
mai m (uncountable)
Synonyms
- florar (popular/folk name)
Adverb
mai
Usage notes
This word regards degree rather than number, for which a form of the word mult should be appended.
Noun
mai n (plural maiuri)
- mallet, maul, sledgehammer, rammer, club
Declension
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) mai | maiul | (niște) maiuri | maiurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) mai | maiului | (unor) maiuri | maiurilor |
vocative | maiule | maiurilor |
Derived terms
Noun
mai n (plural maiuri)
- (dialectal) liver
Declension
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) mai | maiul | (niște) maiuri | maiurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) mai | maiului | (unor) maiuri | maiurilor |
vocative | maiule | maiurilor |
Synonyms
mai - Romansch
Alternative forms
Proper noun
mai m
- (Vallader) May
mai - Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈma.i]
Adverb
mai
- even
- botoboto mai ioho, lado mai ioho ― they even ate grasshoppers, they even ate eels
- ngofa-ngofa amoi ua mai kado ― not even one child came
- ngori pipi cabu mai ua ― I have no money at all (literally, “my money, even a little is not”)
mai - Tetum
Verb
mai
- to come
mai - Tocharian B
Particle
mai
mai - Tokelauan
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈma.i/
- Hyphenation: ma‧i
Preposition
mai
Particle
mai
Antonyms
mai - Uneapa
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mai/
Verb
mai
- to come
mai - Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA: [maːj˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA: [maːj˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA: [maːj˧˧]
Noun
mai • (埋, 𣈕, 𪰹)
- early morning
- (colloquial) Short for ngày mai (“tomorrow”).
- the hair in front of a person's ears, sideburns
Derived terms
Derived terms
Noun
Noun
(classifier cái) mai • (𨨦)
- (of crabs, turtles and tortoises) shell
Noun
- a kind of shovel
Noun
mai • (䋦)
- (Southern Vietnam) matchmaker
mai - Votic
Pronunciation
- (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA: /ˈmɑi̯/, [ˈmɑi̯]
- Hyphenation: mai
Noun
mai
Inflection
Declension of mai (type I/maa, no gradation) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | mai | maid |
genitive | mai | maije, maijõ |
partitive | maitõ | maitõ |
illative | maihi, maihisõ | maije, maijõ, maisõ |
inessive | maiz | maiz |
elative | maissõ | maissõ |
allative | mailõ | mailõ |
adessive | maillõ | maillõ |
ablative | mailtõ | mailtõ |
translative | maissi | maissi |
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive. |
mai - Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales, standard) IPA: /mai̯/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA: /ma/, /mə/
- (South Wales) IPA: /mai̯/
Conjunction
mai
- (formal and North Wales colloquial) that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)
- Mae’n dweud mai athro yw ef. (formal)
- He says that he is a teacher.
- Mae o’n deud mai athro ’dy o. (North Wales, colloquial)
- He says that he is a teacher.
Synonyms
- (South Wales, colloquial) taw
mai - West Makian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈma.i/
Noun
mai
mai - Yola
Verb
mai
- Alternative form of mye
mai - Zou
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mai̯˧/
Noun
mai
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mai̯˧/
Noun
mai