User:Eirikr/Sandbox3/ni
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ni
- (linguistics) Initialism of noun inanimate.
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Albanian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Albanian *nū, from Proto-Indo-European *nū̆ 'now'. Cognate to Lithuanian [Term?] and Sanskrit nū́ (“now”). Often occurs in coordination with other particles, cf. tani, nani, nime ‘id’.
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ni
- now
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Pronoun edit
ni
- I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
Breton edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *snīs (compare Old Irish sní).
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ni
- we (first-person plural personal pronoun)
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ni
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Noun edit
ni f (plural nis)
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse níu, from Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”).
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ni
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Etymology edit
From Italian noi or French nous, plus the i of personal pronouns.
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Pronoun edit
ni (first-person plural, accusative nin, possessive nia)
- we (first-person plural personal pronoun)
- Ni batis lin.
- We hit him.
- Ni batis lin.
- ourselves
- Ni diris al ni.
- We said to ourselves.
- Ni diris al ni.
French edit
Etymology edit
Middle French ny, from Old French ne, from Latin nec.
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ni
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- Chiefly used at least twice in the same sentence, such as (deprecated template usage) ni riche, ni pauvre
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Gothic edit
Romanization edit
ni
- Romanization of 𐌽𐌹
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ni
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ni
- (personal) we (first-person plural personal pronoun)
Interlingua edit
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Etymology edit
From French and Spanish ni, from Latin nec (“and not”).
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ni
- and not.
- Io non sape, ni vole saper (I don’t know, and I don’t want to know)
- Neither, nor.
- Illo ni me place ni displace (It neither pleases me nor displeases me)
- And, or (following a "with no" or "without").
- Nos debe resister sin aqua ni alimento (We must resist with no water or food)
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Eirikr/Sandbox3/ni
- (informal) Neither yes nor no (a play on (deprecated template usage) no and (deprecated template usage) si)
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ni m or f (invariable)
- nu (Greek letter)
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ni
Kedah Malay edit
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ni
- you sg
Latin edit
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- nei (in old orthography)
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From Old Latin nei, from Proto-Indo-European *néy (“not”), from *ne. Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐌹 (nei), Lithuanian nei, Old Church Slavonic ни (ni) and Old Irish ní. See also nē.
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nī
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nī
- not, that not, unless; like ne in imperative and international clauses
- Ni quid tibi hinc in spem referas.
- Vinum aliudve quid ni laudato.
- Numa constituit, ut pisces, qui squamosi non essent, ni pollucerent ... ni qui ad polluctum emerent.
Luxembourgish edit
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ni
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Shortened form of ini, from Proto-Malayic *(i)ni(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.
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ni
- this (the (thing) here)
- this (known (thing) just mentioned)
- this (known (thing) about to be mentioned)
- this (known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience)
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ni
- this (The thing, item, etc. being indicated)
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Romanization edit
ni
- Nonstandard spelling of nī.
- Nonstandard spelling of ní.
- Nonstandard spelling of nǐ.
- Nonstandard spelling of nì.
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- English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
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Pronoun edit
ni
- second person singular pronoun you
- Shí dóó ni ayóo ałk’is niidlį́.
- You and I are really good friends.
- Shí dóó ni ayóo ałk’is niidlį́.
- second person singular possessive pronoun yours
- Díí naaltsoos éí ni.
- This book is yours.
- Díí naaltsoos éí ni.
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The verb in Navajo incorporates information about person, and many sentences may thus not have explicit independent pronouns. For instance:
- Hooghandi naniná.
- Ni éí hooghandi naniná.
Both sentences are grammatically complete, and mean essentially the same thing: you are at home. The verb naniná is in the second-person form, so the pronoun can be safely omitted, as in the first sentence. This is similar to pronoun dropping in other languages where the verb specifies person, such as Spanish. Meanwhile, the explicit use of ni in the second sentence emphasizes that the speaker is talking about you. This can be thought of as roughly equivalent to the use of emphasis in English: while the first sentence comes across as you're at home, the second one is more like you, you're at home.
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ni
- not
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek νῦ (nû)
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ni f (plural nis)
- nu (the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet).
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ni (dative form of noi; form of ne)
- to us
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This word is used when ne (which is dative) is combined with the following accusatives:
- îl (the accusative of el, contracted as ni-l)
- îi (the accusative of ei, contracted as ni-i)
- le (the accusative of ele)
- se (the reflexive accusative of all third-person pronouns)
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ni
- some (plural indefinite article)
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ni
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nominative | nuàutri |
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prepositional | nuàutri |
accusative | ni |
dative | ni |
reflexive | ni |
possessive | nostru |
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Conjunction edit
ni ... ni
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ni f (plural níes)
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ni
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Since 1661, through contraction of the Old Swedish verb suffix -(e)n and the older pronoun I, e.g. vissten I > visste ni ’did you know’. Compare Icelandic þér and þið which developed similarly.
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/niː/
Pronoun edit
ni
- you (plural nominative)
- you (second-person singular nominative formal) (capitalized Ni, rare in modern use)
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- Both ni and er are 2nd person plural, and are also used as the courteous or "formal" 2nd person singular (like the German Sie), capitalized (Ni, Er) or not. The use of titles an courteous forms is a political issue in Sweden. The courteous "ni" was introduced (following the pattern of e.g. French) around the year 1900, and largely abolished following a proposal in 1967 by Bror Rexed to simply use du instead. Friends of this democratic du-reform take offence when addressed with ni.
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Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
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common | neuter | plural | |||||
singular | first | — | jag | mig, mej3 | min | mitt | mina |
second | — | du | dig, dej3 | din | ditt | dina | |
third | masculine (person) | han | honom, han2, en5 | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hon | henne, na5 | hennes | ||||
gender-neutral (person)1 | hen | hen, henom7 | hens | ||||
common (noun) | den | den | dess | ||||
neuter (noun) | det | det | dess | ||||
indefinite | man or en4 | en | ens | ||||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | ||
plural | first | — | vi | oss | vår, våran2 | vårt, vårat2 | våra |
second | — | ni | er | er, eran2, ers6 | ert, erat2 | era | |
archaic | I | eder | eder, eders6 | edert | edra | ||
third | — | de, dom3 | dem, dom3 | deras | |||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina |
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Preposition edit
ni
- Of; possessive particle. Used only with personal names.
- Bisikleta ni Juan
- Juan's bicycle
- Bisikleta ni Juan
- Objective marker for personal names—objective form of si; functional equivalent of ng.
Uzbek edit
Particle edit
ni (Cyrillic ни)
- accusative case marker. It is placed after the direct object of a transitive verb.
- Men O'zbek tilini o'rganyapman.
- "I am studying Uzbek."
- Men O'zbek tilini o'rganyapman.
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Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Celtic *snīs (compare Old Irish sní).
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ni
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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ni
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-Eirikr/Sandbox3/ni
- Combining stem of nina.