n

See also ո, ռ, ⴖ, and Appendix:Variations of "n"

Translingual

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER N
Codepoint	U+006E
m ← Basic Latin → o

Wikipedia

Etymology

From the old Latin N, from the Greek Ν (nu), from an archaic reversed Greek N, from the Phoenician symbol; possibly from an earlier Egyptian hieroglyph of a serpent.

Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The fourteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Related terms

• Ŋ (eng)
• Ν (nu)
• Н (en)

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter N):  Ńń  Ǹǹ  Ňň  Ññ  Ṅṅ  Ņņ  Ṇṇ  Ṋṋ  Ṉṉ  N̈n̈  Ɲɲ  Ƞƞ  ᵰ  ᶇ  ɳ  ȵ  ɴ  Ｎｎ  Ŋŋ  NJNjnj  NJNjnj
• Preceded by apostrophe: 'n
• Hiragana: ん
• な (na), に (ni), ぬ (nu), ね (ne), の (no)

Other representations of N:

NATO phonetic: November Morse code: –· Braille: ⠝ ASL Manual: N

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

• Letter styles
• 

  Capital and lowercase versions of N, in normal and italic type

• 

  Uppercase and lowercase N in Fraktur

Pronunciation

• IPA

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Symbol

Wikipedia

n

1. (IPA) alveolar nasal.
2. (statistics) Sample size.
3. (physics) neutron

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛn/, X-SAMPA: /En/

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Letter

n lowercase (uppercase N)

1. The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

Number

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation

n or N (See N for more abbreviations.)

1. north
2. (grammar) noun
3. (grammar) neuter gender
4. (organic chemistry) normal
5. Neutral
6. No

Translations

north

• Russian: С (ru) (es)

noun

• Russian: сущ (ru) (suš')

neuter

• Russian: ср (ru) (sr), ср. род (ru) (sr. rod)

neutral

no

• Russian: н (ru) (en)

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Azeri

Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The twentieth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛn
• (letter name): IPA: /ɛn/

Letter

n (lower case, upper case N)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: m
• Next letter: o

See also

• 'n

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Egyptian

Adjective

1. of

Usage notes

This genitival adjective is used to express the indirect genitive. It indicates that the noun preceeding it (with which it agrees in gender and number), is possessed by the noun which follows it.

Inflection

	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	n	nt
Plural	nw	nt

Preposition

1. to, for (dative)
2. towards
3. (of time) for, until
4. because of

Usage notes

Before a noun it can be written

nj

This should not be confused with the negative particle, which is written identically

Inflection

Adverbial forms	nj
	n(j)

Pronoun

Dependent pronoun: first person plural

1. we, us (see usage notes)

Usage notes

This form of pronoun is an enclitic, which must directly follow the word it modifies. Its meaning depends on its context.

• When it follows a verb, it indicates the object of the verb
• In the second and third person when it follows an adjective, it forms the subject of an adjectival sentance
• When it follows a relative adjective, such as ntj, ntt, and jsṯ, it indicates the subject of the relative clause (Usually only in the first person singular and third person neuter)
• When it follows an imperative, it indicates the object of the verb.
• When it follows a particle like mj.k, it indicates the subject of the clause.
• When attached to a preposition, it indicates the object of the preposition

This pronoun has a variant hieroglyphic writing:

n

Inflection

Dependent pronouns inflect for gender and number. The "neuter" third person form is used for inanimate objects. See individual pages for variant writings.

	Singular	Plural
1st person	wj	n
2nd masculine	ṯw / tw	ṯn / tn
2nd feminine	ṯn / tn
3rd masculine	sw	sn
3rd feminine	sj
3rd neuter	st

References

Allen, Middle Egyptian
Faulkner, A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called no and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz

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French

Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The fourteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Avec ces propos et d’autres semblables, le pauvre gentilhomme perdait le jugement. Il passait les nuits et se donnait la torture pour les comprendre, pour les approfondir, pour leur tirer le sens des entrailles, ce qu’Aristote lui-même n’aurait pu faire, s’il fût ressuscité tout exprès pour cela.

     With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and tortured himself to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.

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German

Alternative forms

• 'n

Pronunciation

• IPA: /n/

Article

n

1. (colloquial) shorthand of ein "a"

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Italian

Noun

n m, f (invariable)

1. See under N

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Japanese

Romanization

n

1. See ん
2. See ン

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Latvian

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [n]

Letter

N

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Latvian alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž

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Malay

Letter

n

1. The fourteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /enː/, /ɛnː/
• (phoneme): IPA: /n/, /ɳ/*, /ŋ/*

Letter

n

1. The 14th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Usage notes

• IPA: /ɳ/ Retroflex, merge of rn.
• IPA: /ŋ/ Velar nasal, merge of ng, and when n comes before k, like in the English think.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Audio (BR)

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Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called ene and written in the Latin script.
   • 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 246:

     Então continuaram a estudar enquanto o céu lá fora se tornava gradualmente mais escuro.

     Then they continued to study while the sky outside was becoming gradually darker.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ne/, /en/

Letter

n (lowercase, capital N)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /n/. Preceded by m and followed by o.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /n/

Letter

n (Cyrillic spelling н)

1. The 19th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet, preceded by m and followed by nj.

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Spanish

Letter

n (lower case, upper case N)

1. The 14th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

n lower case (upper case N)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ne and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz