WordCodex

ne

See also: Variations of "ne"

ne - Translingual

Symbol

ne

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Nepali.

ne - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nə/

Adverb

ne (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Not.

Conjunction

ne

  1. (obsolete) Nor.

Usage notes

  • Ne survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is almost never used in common speech.

Adverb

ne

  1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of any.

Anagrams

ne - Abinomn

Noun

ne (dual nerom, pural nekon)

  1. arrow (projectile)

ne - Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈnɛ]

Pronoun

né

  1. we, us

Usage notes

  • The form née is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.

ne - Ainu

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ne/

Verb

ne (Kana spelling ネ)

  1. (intransitive, copulative) to be, become
    • Ainu ne ruwe ne.
      • He is an Ainu.

Derived terms

ne - Albanian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [nɛ]

Pronoun

ne (accusative ne, dative neve, ablative nesh)

  1. we, us

Declension

ne (1st person plural)
nominative ne
ablative nesh
full form clitic
accusative ne na
dative neve na
possessive adjective possessive pronoun
ynë yni

ne - Blagar

Noun

ne

  1. human, person

ne - Breton

Particle

ne

  1. not

Usage notes

Used combined with ket, mirroring French ne ... pas.

ne - Catalan

Pronoun

ne (enclitic, contracted 'n, proclitic en, contracted proclitic n')

  1. represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun
  2. represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition de
  3. replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition de
  4. replaces the object of a causative verb

Usage notes

  • ne cannot be used more than once as the object of a given verb.
  • While ne is usually used to replace phrases beginning with the preposition de, adverbial phrases (eg de pressa) are replaced with hi.
  • ne is sometimes used instead of ho to replace an adjective or indefinite noun as the predicate of a verb.
  • ne is sometimes used popularly to add emphasis to a sentence: in this sense, it has no translation in English.
  • -ne is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs ending with a consonant or ⟨u⟩, or between some adverbs/pronouns and a verb. In some varieties of Catalan (Balearic/Valencian) it can also occur in sentence-initial position.

ne - Chuukese

Conjunction

ne

  1. to (connects verbs)

Preposition

ne

  1. Expressing a fraction or a ratio. Preceded by a nominator and followed by the denominator.

ne - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈnɛ]

Interjection

ne

  1. no!

Particle

ne

  1. not

ne - Dalmatian

Adverb

ne

  1. neither

ne - Deg

Noun

ne

  1. water

ne - Dutch

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nə/
  • Hyphenation: ne

Article

ne

  1. (Brabant) a, an
    • ne man
      • a man

Usage notes

ne is used primarily in the dialects that retain the three-gender split. It is only used for masculine words, while een is used for feminine and neuter words.

The form nen is used before vowels (as the English an) and certain consonants (commonly b, d and t), differing from dialect to dialect.

Anagrams

ne - Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Determiner

ne

  1. that.

Pronoun

ne

  1. that.

ne - Esperanto

Pronunciation

    • IPA: [ne]
    • Hyphenation: ne

Particle

ne

  1. no
  2. not
  3. non-

Antonyms

ne - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈne̞]
  • Syllabification: ne

Pronoun

ne (plural, stem nii-)

  1. (demonstrative, of things and animals) nominative plural of se: they, those (objects not pointed at by the speaker)
  2. (colloquial, dialectal, of people) nominative plural of se: they
    • Synonym: he

Determiner

ne

  1. nominative plural of se: those (not pointed at by the speaker)
    • Tässä ne kirjat nyt ovat.
      • This is where those books are now.

Usage notes

See the usage notes under se.

Inflection

The case suffixes are mostly regular (except the inessive and elative singular). Abessive is never used in singular and extremely seldom in plural. Instructive niin is more or less a theoretical construction, since it has developed into an adverb, and its current meaning cannot be derived from ne.

Descendants

Anagrams

ne - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nə/

Particle

ne

  1. (literary) not (used alone to negate a verb; now chiefly with only a few particular verbs: see usage notes)
  2. not, no (used before a verb, with a coordinating negative element usually following; see Usage Notes, below)
  3. Used in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb (especially when the main verb expresses doubt or fear), to provide extra overtones of doubt or uncertainty (but not negating its verb); the so-called "pleonastic" or "expletive" ne.
  4. In comparative clauses usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative
    • Apprendre le français est plus facile qu'on ne pense.
      • Learning French is easier than you (might) think.

Usage notes

  • Typically, ne follows the subject and is itself followed by the verb and:
    • a negative adverbial (pas (“not; don't/doesn't”), plus (“no more, no longer”), jamais (“never”), guère (“hardly”), or (now literary) point (“not a bit”));
    • a nominal element modified by a negative determiner (aucun or nul, both meaning "no", "not a") — note that these phrases can take on nominal, pronominal or adverbial functions;
    • More mobile are negative pronouns, the commonest being personne (“nobody”) and rien (“nothing”), which will follow ne and the verb if they function as the object complement of that verb, but if they are the subject of a given clause, they will usually sit at its head:
    • Personne ne s'en souviendra demain. ― No body will remember about it tomorrow.
    • Rien ne le dérange. ― Nothing bothers him.
  • In literary French (i.e., the most formal variety of the written language) certain verbs can be negated with ne alone (without another negating element like pas). Nowadays, this list is restricted chiefly to the verbs pouvoir, savoir, cesser, oser, and daigner. Less formal registers still require coordination with another negative element.
  • In colloquial (i.e., spoken) French, ne is often omitted, leaving the other negating element (pas, plus, rien, personne, etc.) to indicate the sentence's negative state on its own (unless more than one of these elements is already present).
    • Je veux pas ça. ― I don't want that.
    • Il attend personne. ― He's not waiting for anyone.
    • J'en ai plus besoin. ― I don't need it anymore.
    • On va nulle part. ― We're not going anywhere.
  • In some regions, ne has disappeared from spoken language either entirely or nearly so. Even when it is included in spoken form, the weak "e" is often elided, causing the remaining /n/ to assimilate into nearby words. Compare a few possible versions of the above example, Je veux pas ça, more or less rising in levels of formality:
    • J' veux pas ça. /ʒ‿vø pɑ sa/
    • Je veux pas ça. /ʒə vø pɑ sa/
    • Je n' veux pas ça. /ʒə̃ vø pɑ sa/
    • Je ne veux pas ça. /ʒə nə vø pɑ sa/, /ʒə‿n.vø pɑ sa/

Anagrams

ne - German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nə/

Interjection

ne

  1. (colloquial) right?; is it?; is it not?; tag question
    • Synonyms: gell, nicht, nicht wahr, oder, wa
    • Wir müssen da lang, ne?
      • We need to go that way, don't we?
    • Du hast keine Geschwister, ne?
      • You don't have siblings, do you?

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /neː/

Interjection

ne

  1. Alternative spelling of nee

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nə/

Article

ne

  1. Alternative spelling of 'ne

ne - German Low German

Article

ne f

  1. (Paderbornisch) nominative/accusative feminine singular of en: a

Pronoun

ne m

  1. (Paderbornisch) weak accusative of hei: him

ne - Gothic

Romanization

nē

  1. Romanization of 𐌽𐌴

ne - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈnɛ]

Adverb

ne

  1. don't, should/shall not, stop (doing something)
    • Ne hallgass rá! ― Don't listen to him!
    • Ne felejtsd el! or (more emphatically) El ne felejtsd! ― (Mind you) don't forget it!
    • Miért ne? (= Miért ne csináljuk/tegyük?) ― Why not? (literally, “Why shouldn't [we do it]?”)
    • Bár ne tettem volna! ― I wish I hadn't done it.
    • Ne lopj! ― Thou shalt not steal.

Usage notes

Used before the verb in an imperative clause (or sometimes a conditional clause expressing a wish or desire) to negate that clause; ne is always used instead of nem in the imperative mood.

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

ne - Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ne/, /nɛ/

Adverb

ne

  1. not, don’t

Noun

ne (plural ne-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter N/n.

Derived terms

  • ne- (“non-, un-, in-, im-, ir- (etc.)”)

ne - Ingrian

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈne̞]
  • (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈne̞]
  • Hyphenation: ne

Pronoun

ne

  1. Alternative form of neet

Determiner

ne

  1. Alternative form of neet

Anagrams

ne - Isthmus Zapotec

Conjunction

ne

  1. and

ne - Istro-Romanian

Noun

ne f (definite nevu, genitive/dative lu nevu)

  1. snow

ne - Italian

Alternative forms

  • -ne (enclitic form)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: °/ne/°
  • IPA: (traditional) /ne/°
  • Hyphenation: ne
  • In modern usage but not traditional usage, this word actively blocks syntactic gemination of its initial consonant. Hence però ne prendo (“I (will) take some”) is pronounced /peˈrɔ ne ˈprɛndo/ in modern usage, but /peˈrɔ‿nne ˈprɛndo/ traditionally, since però normally triggers syntactic gemination.

Adverb

ne

  1. from there
    • Si chiuse in casa e non ne uscì per giorni.
      • He shut himself in the house, and didn't come out for days.
      • (literally, “He locked himself in house, and didn't from there come out for days.”)

Usage notes

  • The adverb ne replaces di là (“from there”):
  • Sono di Genova; ne sono venuto stamattina.
    • I am from Genoa; I came from there this morning.

Pronoun

ne

  1. from this; from that; from these; from those, sometimes not translated in English
    • Furono mesi di lavoro sfibrante, ma ne venne fuori un gran film.
      • There were months of exhausting work, but a great movie came out of those.
  2. about this; about that; about these; about those
    • Ne abbiamo parlato, ma non sono sicuro che abbia capito.
      • We talked about that, but I'm not sure he understood.
    • Certo che ricordo quell'evento: ne ho perfino scritto in un articolo.
      • Of course I remember that event, I even wrote an article about that
  3. of this; of that; of these; of those, sometimes not translated in English
    • Se è avanzata della torta, ne vorrei una fetta, per favore.
      • If there's some cake left, I would like a slice.
      • (literally, “If is left some cake, of it I would like a slice.”)
    • Avevi promesso di tornare a casa, te ne ricordi?
      • You promised you'd come back home, do you remember (that)?
      • (literally, “You had promised to come back to home, do you of it remember?”)
  4. of them (sometimes not translated in English)
    • Non ne ho più.
      • I don't have any left.
      • (literally, “I don't of it have any more.”)
  5. for this; of that; of these; of those, sometimes not translated in English
    • Ho capito cos'ha fatto, ma non ne ho capito il motivo.
      • I understood what he did, but I didn't understad the reason for that.
  6. intensive particle, used in forms of certain verbs suffixed with -ne, where it indicates a particular way of carrying out the verb's action
    • Spalancò la porta e se ne andò tutta esultante.
      • She slammed the door open, and left all cheerful.
    • Se ne sta sdraiato per ore a non fare nulla.
      • He just stays there lying down for hours, without doing anything.
  7. only used in forms of the verb of volerne (“to hold a grudge”)
    • Non te ne vorrò.
      • I won't hold a grudge against you.
  8. only used in forms of the verb of andarne (“to be at stake”)
    • Ne va della tua vita.
      • Your life is at stake.

Usage notes

  • The pronoun ne stands for di + [pronoun], and can thus be a translation of “[preposition] + it/them” for any preposition that is translated as di in Italian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: °°/ne/*
  • Hyphenation: ne
  • This word triggers syntactic gemination of the following consonant, and may or may not block syntactic gemination of its initial consonant (contrast the pronominal usage above).

Contraction

ne

  1. Apocopic form of nel
    • Massimo Troisi non ha vinto un oscar per la sua interpretazione ne Il postino.
      • Massimo Troisi did not win an Oscar for his performance in Il Postino.

Usage notes

  • The contraction ne is used where nel, nella, etc., would ordinarily be used, but cannot be because the article is part of the title of a film, book, etc.

ne - Japanese

Romanization

ne

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ね
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ネ

ne - Kalasha

Determiner

ne

  1. no

Particle

ne

  1. no

ne - Kapampangan

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ne
  • IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈnɛ]

Pronoun

ne

  1. Portemanteu of 3rd person singular possessive/ergative pronoun + 3rd person singular absolutive pronoun
    • Ikit ne.
      • S/he saw him/her.

Particle

ne

  1. (informal) sentence-final particle indicating emotion or mild emphasis
    • Nokarin ya kaya ne?
      • Now, I wonder where is s/he?
  2. (tag question) Sentence-final question marker particle indicating emphasis and asking for confirmation: right?; eh?; isn't it, innit?
    • Mako naku ne?
      • I'm leaving, ok?

Adverb

ne

  1. already; now (expresses the event when following a verb)
    • Yari ne.
      • Finished already.
  2. already; now (declares the event of action when following a verb in the past tense)
    • Meko ne.
      • s/he left already.
  3. already; now (suggests immediate or quick action when following the infinitive form and future tense of the verb)
    • Papunta ne kanu.
      • s/he said that s/he's coming already.

ne - Karelian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈne/

Determiner

ne

  1. these, those

Pronoun

ne

  1. these, those
  2. they (inanimate)

Declension

singular plural
nominative se ne
genitive sen niijen
partitive sitä niitä
inessive siinä niissä
elative siitä niistä
illative siih niih
adessive sillä niilä
ablative siltä niiltä
essive sinä niinä
translative siksi niiksi
abessive siittä niittä
comitative niineh

ne - Ladin

Adverb

ne

  1. not

ne - Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /neː/, [neː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ne/, [nɛː]

Adverb

nē (not comparable)

  1. no, not

Derived terms

Conjunction

nē (+ subjunctive)

  1. that not, in order not to and similar; lest
    • Vereor, nē videātur ōrātiō mea stulta.
      • I fear lest my oration seem foolish.

Usage notes

  • Not to be confused with the affirmative particle ne (see Etymology 2).
  • This conjunction became obsolete in colloquial speech in late antiquity, being displaced by non as a solecism.

Derived terms

Interjection

nē

  1. truly!, indeed!; only joined with personal pronouns and commonly connected with other affirmative particles

ne - Latvian

Conjunction

ne

  1. not
    • ne tikai ― not only
    • ne visai ― not quite

ne - Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nɛ/

Interjection

ne

  1. no (used to show disagreement or negation)

ne - Livonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ne/

Pronoun

ne

  1. they; nominative plural of tämā

ne - Luganda

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Conjunction

ne

  1. and (only used if the overall statement is grammatically positive)

ne - Mandarin

Romanization

ne (ne5／ne0, Zhuyin ˙ㄋㄜ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吶／呐
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呢

ne

  1. Nonstandard spelling of nē.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of né.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of nè.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of nê̄.

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.

ne - Mezquital Otomi

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nè/

Verb

ne

  1. (trans) want

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /né/, /ně/

Noun

ne

  1. mouth
  2. snout
  3. edge (of a blade)
  4. bite, sting
  5. animals at the head of the herd

ne - Middle Dutch

Adverb

ne

  1. not

Usage notes

Immediately precedes the verb. Often found in combination with the synonymous niet or another negating adverb, which is placed elsewhere.

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Dutch: n- (prefix)

ne - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nɛ/, /nə/

Adverb

ne

  1. not (negates the accompanying verb)
    • Þei ne bileveden hire nought. ― They didn't believe her.
  2. not (to no degree, extent, or way)
    • Þou ne art weyke. ― You aren't weak.

Usage notes

  • Middle English lacks do-support. Instead, ne is simply used by itself: Puple deien, bot fame ne deieþ ("People die, but reputation does not die").
  • Middle English has negative concord, so negatives don't cancel out another, unlike formal English or Latin. ne is often accompanied by other negatives rather than used alone. Double, triple, and quadruple negatives are common: I ne oght no man noght ("I haven't owed anything to anyone," literally "I not owed no one nothing").
  • ne usually immediately precedes the verb; compare nought / nat, which usually follows it.

Descendants

  • English: ne (obsolete)
  • Scots: ne (obsolete)

Conjunction

ne

  1. nor (and not, or (not), not)
  2. lest (in case, before)
  3. than (introducing a basis of comparison)

Usage notes

  • ne can contract with certain words that follow it, such as ne was → nas. This is optional, so forms like ne was are possible.
  • ne... ne... is often found in correlative constructions, with the meaning of not... or...; this is comparable to modern English neither... (n)or....

Descendants

  • English: ne (obsolete)
  • Scots: ne (obsolete)

ne - Middle French

Alternative forms

Adverb

ne

  1. not (used to negate a verb)

Usage notes

  • As in modern French, may be used in combination with another adverb, such as ne... iamais, ne... pas, ne... gaire, ne... mie, ne... oncques, ne... poin(c)t and ne... rien(s), but such an adverb is not required.

Conjunction

ne

  1. Alternative form of ny (“neither; nor”)

ne - Mohawk

Article

ne

  1. the

ne - Negerhollands

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nɛ/

Verb

ne

  1. take

ne - Nheengatu

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ne]
  • Hyphenation: ne

Pronoun

ne

  1. (second-class) second-person singular personal pronoun (you, your)
    • Ne akanhemu reikú nhaãsé ne kirá reikú.
      • You are scared because you are fat.
    • Aé uputari upitá ne irũmu.
      • He wants to stay with you.
    • Ne manha uwiké uka pisasú upé.
      • Your mother enters the new house.

Usage notes

  • As a second-class pronoun, ne is used as the subject of a sentence when its verb is a second-class one (those verbs are sometimes referred to as adjectives). The personal pronoun ne is also used when governed by any postposition with the exception of arama and supé. Finally, ne is used as a possessive pronoun as well.

ne - Northern Kurdish

Adverb

ne

  1. not
    • Ez ne kurd im.
      • I'm not Kurdish.

Interjection

ne

  1. no

ne - Northern Ndebele

Adjective

-ne

  1. four

Inflection

Adjective concord, tone L

ne - Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /neː/

Noun

ne n (plural neet)

  1. a lunar phase of an old moon, i.e. period of time in which the moon is waning
    • Antonym: ny

Derived terms

Anagrams

ne - Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ne/

Adverb

ne

  1. not

Usage notes

  • Old English does not have do-support. Instead, ne is simply used by itself: Menn sweltaþ, ac hlīsa ne swilt ("People die, but reputation does not die").
  • Ne is placed immediately before the finite verb: Sēo lǣrestre ne meahte furðum mīnes naman ġemunan (“The teacher could not even remember my name”). It only goes before infinitives on the rare occasion when there is no finite verb to negate: Iċ wēne þæt þū sċyle forlǣtan and eft ne cuman ("I think you should leave and not come back"), Uton ne forspillan nāne tīd mā ("Let's not waste any more time").
  • Ne negates verbs. Other parts of speech are negated with nā: Earg iċ eom, nā lǣwa ("I'm a coward, not a traitor"), Iċ hīe fræġn "Hū wæs þīn færeld?" and hēo cwæþ "Nā yfel" ("I asked her 'How was your trip?' and she said "Not bad'"). Nā is also used when the verb is only implied: Ne rēċe iċ hwæðer mē hwā ġelīefe þē nā ("I don't care if anyone believes me or not"). Nā also negates tō-infinitives and participles: Þās þing ġedafenode tō dōnne and þā ōðru nā tō forlǣtenne ("It would have made sense to do these things and not to neglect the others").
  • Ne and its accompanying verb often come at the beginning of a sentence: Ne meahte nān mann tecnāwan hwelcre mægðe hē wǣre ("Nobody could tell what tribe he was," literally "Couldn't nobody tell what tribe he was").
  • Old English has negative concord, meaning one negative doesn't cancel out another. Double, triple, and quadruple negatives are very common: Ne sċolde iċ nǣfre nānum menn nāwiht ("I've never owed anything to anyone," literally "I never not owed no one nothing").
  • In a few verbs beginning with a vowel, h, or w, ne actually fuses with the verb, creating nesan (“to not be”), nabban (“to not have”), nyllan (“to not want”), nytan (“to not know”), and nāgan (“to not own”). In the West Saxon dialect (the dialect of most surviving texts and sometimes referred to as "standard" Old English), the contracted forms are the norm, while in other dialects the uncontracted forms ne wesan, ne habban, etc. are also common.

Conjunction

ne

  1. (in negative phrases) or, and not (optionally translated as "nor")
    • Þurh þissa þinga ġehāt sind cumene tō anwealde unmenn. Ac hīe lēogaþ, ne ġelǣstaþ hīe þæt ġehāt, ne hīe nǣfre nyllaþ!
      • By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie, they do not fulfill that promise, and they never will!
    • Ne lufiġe iċ þæt beorhte sweord for his sċearpnesse, ne þone flān for his swiftnesse, ne þone cempan for his wuldre. Þæt ān iċ lufiġe þæt þe hīe beweriaþ.
      • I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
  2. ne... ne... is used to mean "[not...] or..." (optionally translated as "neither... nor...")
    • Iċ næbbe ne frīend ne fīend. Wrace iċ hæbbe.
      • I don't have friends or enemies. I have revenge.

Usage notes

  • In the phrase "[not...] or...", ne is often used consecutively for "or": Iċ nāt ne ne rēċe hwelċes cynnes fugol hit sīe, hit is mīn frēond ("I don't know or care what kind of bird it is, it's my friend").

Descendants

  • Middle English: ne, ny, ni
    • English: ne (obsolete)
    • Scots: ne (obsolete)

ne - Old French

Alternative forms

  • nen (poetic, after vowels)

Adverb

ne

  1. not; used to form negative constructions

Descendants

  • French: ne

Conjunction

ne

  1. neither (not one or the other)

Descendants

  • French: ni

ne - Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈne/

Adverb

ne

  1. not

Descendants

  • North Frisian:
    • Heligoland: ni

Conjunction

ne

  1. nor

Particle

ne

  1. no

Synonyms

ne - Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Adverb

ne

  1. not

Descendants

  • Middle Low German: ne, en

ne - Pali

Alternative forms

  • 𑀦𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • ने (Devanagari script)
  • নে (Bengali script)
  • නෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • နေ or ၼေ (Burmese script)
  • เน (Thai script)
  • ᨶᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ເນ (Lao script)
  • នេ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄚𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

ne

  1. accusative plural masculine of na (“those”)

Pronoun

ne

  1. accusative plural of na (“them, those”)

ne - Phuthi

Adjective

-ne

  1. four

Inflection

Adjective concord, tone L

ne - Rawang

Noun

ne

  1. eye.

ne - Romanian

Alternative forms

  • нє (pre-1860s Cyrillic form)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ne/

Pronoun

ne (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of noi)

  1. (direct object, first-person plural) us
  • noi (stressed accusative)

Pronoun

ne (unstressed dative and reflexive form of noi)

  1. (indirect object) (to) us

ne - Saterland Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nə/
  • Hyphenation: ne

Article

ne

  1. Form of of n used before feminine adjectives
    • Dät is n Gous. Ne grieze Gous. ― That's a goose. A grey goose.

ne - Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /neɪ/, /nɛ/, /nə/, /n(ː)/

Adverb

ne

  1. (archaic, rare) Not.
    • Ne look at the sky, when ye tread bumpy roads.
      • (please add an English translation of this usage example)
      (A Northern English folk saying)

Conjunction

ne

  1. (archaic, rare) Nor.
    • Ne mother, ne father, ne friends, ne foes ne-knew what had worthen of him.
      • (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Usage notes

  • Ne is a negative particle and it is used preverbally, i.e. it is placed directly before a verb, for example,ː"What haps might chance me I ne knew" (William Fowler (makar), 1590) and "To suffer exile he said that he ne couth" (Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid, 1513). Now archaic and chiefly dialectal, it is still understood and used by a few rural speakers in Scotland and Northern England.
  • As a conjunction, it is placed immediately before the word it negates as inː ne mickle, ne little; Twas ne man, ne woman.. ne beast; ne rich, ne poor, ne bold, ne meek, ne stong, ne weak can escape God's wrath.
  • In urban areas and cities became displaced by na or nae.

ne - Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ne/

Particle

ne (Cyrillic spelling не)

  1. not (denoting negation)
    • ne znam ― I don't know
    • on je ne samo darovit, već i jako marljiv ― he is not only talented, but also very industrious
    • htio-ne htio ― whether you want it or not
    • da ne spavaš? / ne spavaš li? / zar ne spavaš? ― aren't you sleeping?
    • ne mogu, a da ne… ― I cannot but…
    • reći ne ― to say no; refuse, decline
    • ne manje nego/od… ― no less than…
    • ne doći ― to fail to come, not come
    • … Zar ne? ― … Aren't you? (Isn't it?, Do you?, Don't you?)
    • neću ― I won't

Interjection

ne (Cyrillic spelling не)

  1. no
    • Jesi li demokrat? Ne! ― Are you a democrat? No!

Synonyms

  • jok (dialectal)

Antonyms

ne - Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /nɛ́/, /nɛ/

Particle

nȅ

  1. not (negates meaning of verb)
  2. no (expresses disapproval, disagreement)

Antonyms

ne - Southern Ndebele

Adjective

-ne

  1. four

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

ne - Sumerian

Romanization

ne

  1. Romanization of 𒉈 (ne)

ne - Swazi

Adjective

-ne

  1. four

Inflection

Adjective concord, tone L

ne - Tagalog

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈnɛ]

Particle

ne (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒ)

  1. (Nueva Ecija, tag question) Sentence-final question marker particle indicating emphasis and asking for confirmation: right?; eh?; isn't it, innit?
    • Synonyms: 'no, 'di ba, ano, (Rizal) hane
    • Tapos magkikita tayo sa bahay ni Aling Neneng, ne?
      • Afterwards, we'll see each other at Ms. Neneng's house, am I right?
    • Naligo ka na, ne?
      • You already took a bath, right?

ne - Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /neː/

Determiner

ne

  1. (proximal) this, these
    • namo ne ― this chicken

Pronoun

ne

  1. (demonstrative) this
    • ngori tomau ne ― I want this
    • ne foke ― this is a cockroach

ne - Turkish

Pronoun

ne

  1. what
    • Ne istiyorsun? ― What do you want?
  2. whatever
    • Ne istersen yaparım. ― I will do whatever you want.

Declension

Inflection
Nominative ne
Definite accusative neyi

Adverb

ne

  1. what, how, such
    • Ne güzel! ― How beautiful!
    • Ne güzel bir gün! ― What a beautiful day!
  2. Used as an intensifier to express surprise, astonishment, together with expressions like be!, ha!.
    • Ne osurdun be! ― You farted such (that probably the whole world heard it).

Conjunction

ne ... ne ...

  1. neither; nor
    • Ne bu ne şu ― Neither this nor that

Usage notes

  • Not used alone but rather as ne...ne..., the way it is used is directly copied from Persian نه...نه...(“neither; nor”).

Antonyms

Noun

ne

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

ne - Tuvaluan

Particle

ne

  1. past tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

ne - Unami

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [nə]

Pronoun

në

  1. that (inanimate)

ne - Ura (Vanuatu)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ne/, [ne]

Noun

ne

  1. water
  2. river

ne - Votic

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈne]
  • Hyphenation: ne

Pronoun

ne

  1. Alternative form of need

ne - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /neː/

Noun

ne

  1. Nasal mutation of de.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
de dde ne unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ne - West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /n̪e/

Determiner

ne

  1. (proximal) this, these
    • pala ne ilamo ― this house is large
    • nudupe de ngeu ne ― throw away these leftovers
    • Synonyms: mene, nema
    • Antonym: ma

ne - Xhosa

Adjective

-ne

  1. four

Inflection

Adjective concord, tone L

ne - Yup'ik

Noun

ne (absolutive ena)

  1. house

ne - Zou

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ne˧/

Noun

ne

  1. lip

Verb

ne

  1. (transitive) to eat

Derived terms

ne - Zulu

Adjective

-ne

  1. four

Inflection

Adjective concord, tone L

Derived terms

Meaning and Definition of ne
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