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ní

See also: Variations of "ni"

ní - Bassa

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ní]

Noun

ní

  1. water

ní - Cogui

Noun

ní

  1. water

ní - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈɲiː]

Pronoun

ní

  1. genitive/dative/locative and instrumental singular of ona

ní - Dakota

Verb

ní

  1. live, be alive

ní - Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /n̠ʲiː/

Alternative forms

Noun

ní m (genitive singular ní, nominative plural nithe)

  1. thing
  2. object

Declension

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ní nithe
Vocative a ní a nithe
Genitive ní nithe
Dative ní nithe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an ní na nithe
Genitive an ní na nithe
Dative leis an ní

don ní

 leis na nithe

Derived terms

Pronoun

ní

  1. which (referring back to a clause) (followed by a relative clause)

Alternative forms

Noun

ní f (genitive singular nite)

  1. verbal noun of nigh
  2. washing

Verb

ní

  1. present subjunctive analytic of nigh

Particle

ní

  1. not (preverbal particle)
    • Ní thuigim. ― I do not understand.
    • Ní dheachaigh mé ansin. ― I did not go there.
    • Ní bhfaighidh siad é. ― They will not find it.
  2. not (present copular form)
    • Ní críonnacht creagaireacht. ― Miserliness is not thrift.
    • Ní hionann iad. ― They are not the same.
    • An gloine é? Ní hea. ― Is it glass? No.

Usage notes

The preverbal particle triggers lenition of a following consonant. It is not used in the past tense except for some irregular verbs. It takes the dependent form of irregular verbs. The copular form triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel.

  • cha (nonstandard)
  • níor (used in the past tense with regular and some irregular verbs, also the past/conditional copular form)
Simple copular forms
Present/future
AffirmativeNegativeInterrogativeNeg. inter.
Main clauses isníannach
Direct relative clauses nach
Indirect relative clausesar, arbv
Other subordinate clausesgur, gurbvannach
Past/conditional
AffirmativeNegativeInterrogativeNeg. inter.
Main clausesba, b’vníor, níorbhvar, arbhvnár, nárbhv
Direct relative clausesba, abv nár, nárbhv
Indirect relative clausesar, arbhv
Other subordinate clausesgur, gurbhvar, arbhvnár, nárbhv
Present subjunctive
AffirmativeNegative
gura, gurabvnára, nárabv
     Compound copular forms
Base wordPresent/futurePast/conditional
cácár, cárbvcár, cárbhv
cécér, cérbvcér, cérbhv
dá dá mba, dá mb’v
de/dodar, darbvdar, darbhv
faoifaoinar, faoinarbvfaoinar, faoinarbhv
iinar, inarbvinar, inarbhv
lelenar, lenarbvlenar, lenarbhv
mámásmá ba, má b’v
muramura, murabvmurar, murarbhv
ó (prep.)ónar, ónarbvónar, ónarbhv
ó (conj.)ósó ba, ó b’v
trítrínar, trínarbvtrínar, trínarbhv
v Used before vowel sounds

Alternative forms

Verb

ní

  1. (archaic, Ulster) present analytic independent of déan

ní - Lakota

Adjective

ní

  1. alive

ní - Mandarin

Alternative forms

  • ni – nonstandard

Romanization

ní (ni2, Zhuyin ㄋㄧˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 倪
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呢
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坭
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埿
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 妫
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 婗
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 尼
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 屔
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怩
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 泥
  11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 淣
  12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 狋
  13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 猊
  14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秜
  15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 籾
  16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臡／𰯋
  17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蚭
  18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蜺
  19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 觬
  20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 貎
  21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 跜
  22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 輗／𫐐
  23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 郳
  24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鈦／钛
  25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 霓
  26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鯓
  27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鯢／鲵
  28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麑
  29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 齯／𫠜

ní - Middle Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /n͈ʲiː/

Particle

ní

  1. not

Descendants

Verb

ní

  1. is not, isn’t

Pronoun

ní

  1. something, anything

Verb

ní

  1. he/she says
    • Dooda, dishní! ― I say no!

Usage notes

This verb is frequently used for quoted speech. To introduce quoted speech, just add the prefix á- (“thus”) to any of the forms of the verb. This modifies the meaning to something like "to say as follows" or "to say thus":

This is a neuter verb that uses only the imperfective mode. Other modes are suppleted by the active verb niih, reproduced below for convenience.

Conjugation

Paradigm: Neuter imperfective (∅), with some irregularities.

NEUTER IMP singular duoplural plural
1st person dishní diiʼní dadiiʼní
2nd person diní dohní dadohní
3rd person ní daaní
4th person jiní dajiní
PERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person dííniid diiʼniid dadiiʼniid
2nd person dííníniid dooniid dadooniid
3rd person dííniid dadííniid
4th person jidííniid dazhdííniid
FUTURE singular duoplural plural
1st person dideeshniił didiiʼniił dadidiiʼniił
2nd person didííniił didoohniił dadidoohniił
3rd person didooniił dadidooniił
4th person dizhdooniił dazhdidooniił
ITERATIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person ńdíshʼniih ńdiiʼniih ńdadiiʼniih
2nd person ńdíʼniih ńdóhʼniih ńdadohʼniih
3rd person ńdíʼniih ńdadiʼniih
4th person nízhdíʼniih ńdazhdiʼniih
OPTATIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person dóshneʼ dooʼneʼ dadooʼneʼ
2nd person dóóneʼ doohneʼ dadoohneʼ́
3rd person dóneʼ dadóneʼ
4th person jidóneʼ dazhdóneʼ

ní - Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [n͈ʲiː]

Particle

ní

  1. not

Usage notes

Followed by the dependent form of the verb, which (in Old Irish) is not subjected to nasalization or lenition mutation unless a direct object pronoun is implied. Compare:

  • Ní ben inna firu ― He does not strike the men
    • Here the b of ben is unmutated.
  • Ní mben ― He does not strike him
    • Here the b of ben is nasalized to mb.
  • Ní ben ― He does not strike it
    • Here the b of ben is lenited.

In Middle Irish increasingly, and in Modern Irish always, ní lenites the following verb.

Descendants

Verb

ní

  1. is not, isn’t

Conjugation

See relevant rows at sga-conj-is.

Pronoun

ní

  1. something, anything; some, any [+ di (object) = of]
  2. (in a negative clause) nothing

For quotations using this term, see ní.

Declension

Case Animate Neuter
Nominative nech ní
Accusative nech
Genitive neich
Dative neuch, neoch

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
ní also nní after a proclitic ní pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ní - Rawang

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ni˥/

Numeral

ní

  1. two.

Synonyms

Meaning and Definition of ní
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