nen

See also -nen, n'en, 'nen, nên, nēn, něn, nèn, nền, and nến

English

Pronoun

nen

1. (Geordie) none

Anagrams

• NNE

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Catalan

Alternative forms

• nin

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈnɛn/

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ninus.

Noun

nen m (plural nens, feminine nena)

1. boy, male child

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Dutch

Etymology

From enen, eenen, the now-obsolete accusative/dative case form of een.

Article

nen

1. (dialect, Flemish) a, an

   nen boom

   a tree

Usage notes

In Flanders this is commonly used as the dialectal form of een. It is only used for masculine words, while een is still 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. The same happens for the definite article de which becomes den, and sometimes for adjectives as well.

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German

Alternative forms

• 'nen

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nən/

Article

nen

1. (colloquial) shorthand of einen

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Lojban

Rafsi

nen

1. rafsi of nejni.

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Mandarin

Romanization

nen

1. Nonstandard spelling of nēn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of něn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of nèn.

Usage notes

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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Middle Low German

Etymology

Probably shortened from Old Saxon nihen (“not one”). Cognate with German kein, Dutch geen.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nɛɪn/

Article

nên

1. no, none; used and inflected in the same way as the article en

   Ik hebbe en hus. Du hefst nen hus. (I have one house. You have no house.)

• Van eyneme bosen tyranne, ghenomet Dracole Wyda (Of a vile evil tyrant named Dracole Wyda):

1. • Gy syn de snodeste vnde groteste thiran, den men vinden mach in alle der werlde, vnde ik hebbe nenen mynschen ny gheseen noch ghehort, de iuw ye wat gudes nasecht heft...

     • (normalised) Gi sin de snödeste unde grö̂teste thiran, den men vinden mach in alle der werlde, unde ik hebbe nenen minschen ni geseen noch gehö̂rt, de juw je wat gudes nasecht heft... (In this case, ö̂ marks a monophthong, not a length, that is [øː] not /œʏː/.)

     You are the blandest and greatest tyrant that one might find in all the world and I have not seen nor heard one human, that has ever said a good thing about you...; lit.: ...and I have no human seen nor heard...)

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin nec.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈnẽ/

Adverb

nen

1. not even (introduces an emphatic negation or exclusion)
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 30 (facsimile):

     Nen ela outroſſi anos de nõ pode Se deus Maiude dizer q̇ nõ rogue de coraçõ

     Not even she can’t tell us, if God helps me, that one shouldn’t beg heartily

Conjunction

nen

1. nor (introduces each except the first term of a series, indicating that none of them is true)
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 6 (facsimile):

     Porend a ſant eſcritura que non mente nen erra nos conta un gn̈ miragre que fez en Engra terra. A uirgen ſanta maria.

     However, the Holy Scripture, which doesn’t lie nor err, tells of a great miracle that Virgin Holy Mary worked in England.

Descendants

• Fala: nin
• Galician: nin
• Portuguese: nem

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Volapük

Preposition

nen

1. without

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Welsh

Noun

nen f (plural nennau) 

1. heaven

Synonyms

• nef