bé
See also: Appendix:Variations of "be"
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
bé
Usage notes edit
- The form ben is used when it precedes the adjective, adverb or verb form that it modifies, and bé is used in all other cases.
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
bé m (plural béns)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “bé” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bé”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bé” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bé” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
bé
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bé n (indeclinable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
Derived terms edit
See also edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bé m (plural bés)
- The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
Further reading edit
- “bé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hokkien edit
For pronunciation and definitions of bé – see 買 (“to buy; to purchase”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 買). |
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bé
- The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
- (music) bemol, the sign ♭
- Hypernym: módosítójel
- Coordinate terms: kereszt, kettős kereszt, kettős bé, feloldójel
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bé | bék |
accusative | bét | béket |
dative | bének | béknek |
instrumental | bével | békkel |
causal-final | béért | békért |
translative | bévé | békké |
terminative | béig | békig |
essive-formal | béként | békként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | bében | békben |
superessive | bén | béken |
adessive | bénél | béknél |
illative | bébe | békbe |
sublative | bére | békre |
allative | béhez | békhez |
elative | béből | békből |
delative | béről | békről |
ablative | bétől | béktől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
béé | béké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
bééi | békéi |
Possessive forms of bé | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | bém | béim |
2nd person sing. | béd | béid |
3rd person sing. | béje | béi |
1st person plural | bénk | béink |
2nd person plural | bétek | béitek |
3rd person plural | béjük | béik |
Derived terms edit
Expressions
Etymology 2 edit
Adverb edit
bé
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)
Further reading edit
- (letter name): (1): b in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (adverb): bé in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- bé , partly redirecting to b and be in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bé n (genitive singular bés, nominative plural bé)
- The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
Declension edit
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish bé, from Proto-Celtic *ben, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).
Noun edit
bé f (genitive singular bé, nominative plural béithe)
Declension edit
Declension of bé
Derived terms edit
- Bé (“Muse”)
- bé choille (“nymph”)
- bé-iasc (“damselfish”)
- folt bé (“maidenhair”)
Related terms edit
- bean (“woman”)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bé
- The name of the Latin-script letter b/B.
See also edit
- (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
- Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bé | bhé | mbé |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bé”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “bé”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Old Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Celtic *ben, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).
Noun edit
bé f
Derived terms edit
- bé carna (“harlot”)
Descendants edit
- Irish: bé
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
·bé
- second/third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of at·tá
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
bé | bé pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
mbé |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
bé
- (onomatopoeia) baa (cry of sheep)
Romagnol edit
Etymology edit
From Latin bibō, bibere.
Verb edit
bé
- to drink
Noun edit
bé m or f (invariable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
See also edit
Tetum edit
Noun edit
bé
- The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Chinese 庳 (*beʔ) (SV: ti, tì).
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓɛ˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓɛ˨˩˦]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓɛ˦˥]
Audio (Saigon): (file)
Adjective edit
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Noun edit
bé
Pronoun edit
bé
See also edit
Xârâcùù edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bé
Categories:
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Catalan/e
- Rhymes:Catalan/e/1 syllable
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan adverbs
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- Czech onomatopoeias
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech interjections
- Czech nouns
- Czech indeclinable nouns
- Czech neuter nouns
- cs:Latin letter names
- cs:Animal sounds
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
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- French lemmas
- French nouns
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- fr:Latin letter names
- Chinese lemmas
- Hokkien lemmas
- Chinese verbs
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- Chinese proper nouns
- Hokkien proper nouns
- Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hokkien pe̍h-ōe-jī forms
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Hungarian/beː
- Rhymes:Hungarian/beː/1 syllable
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian nouns
- hu:Latin letter names
- hu:Music
- Hungarian adverbs
- Hungarian poetic terms
- Hungarian dialectal terms
- Hungarian two-letter words
- Icelandic 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛː
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- Icelandic lemmas
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- is:Latin letter names
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
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- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
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- Irish literary terms
- Irish fourth-declension nouns
- ga:Latin letter names
- ga:Appearance
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- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
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- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
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- Old Irish non-lemma forms
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- sga:Female people
- Portuguese 1-syllable words
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- Romagnol terms inherited from Latin
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- rgn:Latin letter names
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- tet:Latin letter names
- Vietnamese terms borrowed from Old Chinese
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- vi:Children
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- ane:Male family members