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User:Eirikr/Sandbox3/ni

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ni"

English

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Noun

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ni

  1. (linguistics) Initialism of noun inanimate.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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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

  1. now​
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Basque

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ni

  1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)


Breton

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *snīs (compare Old Irish sní).

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ni

  1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Conjunction

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ni

  1. neither, nor

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Noun

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ni f (plural nis)

  1. Nu; the Greek letter Ν (lowercase ν).

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse níu, from Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”).

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Numeral

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ni

  1. (cardinal number) nine

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From Italian noi or French nous, plus the i of personal pronouns.

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ni (first-person plural, accusative nin, possessive nia)

  1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)
    Ni batis lin.
    We hit him.
  2. ourselves
    Ni diris al ni.
    We said to ourselves.


French

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Etymology

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Middle French ny, from Old French ne, from Latin nec.

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Conjunction

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ni

  1. neither; nor

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Gothic

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Romanization

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ni

  1. Romanization of 𐌽𐌹

Hungarian

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Interjection

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ni

  1. lo!, look!
    itt van ni - look! here it is!

Ido

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ni

  1. (personal) we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Interlingua

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Etymology

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From French and Spanish ni, from Latin nec (“and not”).

Adverb

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ni

  1. and not.
    Io non sape, ni vole saper (I don’t know, and I don’t want to know)
  2. Neither, nor.
    Illo ni me place ni displace (It neither pleases me nor displeases me)
  3. And, or (following a "with no" or "without").
    Nos debe resister sin aqua ni alimento (We must resist with no water or food)

Italian

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ni

  1. (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)

  1. nu (Greek letter)

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Japanese

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ni

Kedah Malay

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ni

  1. you sg

Latin

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Alternative forms

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  • nei (in old orthography)

Etymology

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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.

Adverb

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nī

  1. not, if...not, unless- an absolutely negative particle like ne so only in combinations

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Conjunction

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nī

  1. 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

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Adverb

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ni

  1. never

Malay

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Etymology

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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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Determiner

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ni

  1. this (the (thing) here)
  2. this (known (thing) just mentioned)
  3. this (known (thing) about to be mentioned)
  4. this (known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience)

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ni

  1. this (The thing, item, etc. being indicated)

Mandarin

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Romanization

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ni

  1. Nonstandard spelling of nī.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of ní.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of nǐ.
  4. 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

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ni

  1. second person singular pronoun you
    • Shí dóó ni ayóo ałk’is niidlį́.
      You and I are really good friends.
  2. second person singular possessive pronoun yours
    • Díí naaltsoos éí ni.
      This book is yours.

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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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Navajo personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person shí nihí danihí
2nd person ni nihí danihí
3rd person bí bí daabí
4th person (3a) hó hó daahó

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Old High German

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Particle

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ni

  1. not

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek νῦ (nû)

Noun

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ni f (plural nis)

  1. nu (the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet).

Romanian

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Pronoun

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ni (dative form of noi; form of ne)

  1. 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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Samoan

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ni

  1. some (plural indefinite article)

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Sicilian

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Pronoun

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ni

  1. us, accusative of nuàutri
  2. us, dative of nuàutri
  3. us, reflexive of nuàutri

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nominative nuàutri
prepositional nuàutri
accusative ni
dative ni
reflexive ni
possessive nostru

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Spanish

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Etymology 1

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From Latin nec.

Conjunction

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ni ... ni

  1. Neither ... nor.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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ni f (plural níes)

  1. nu; the Greek letter Ν, ν
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Swahili

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Verb

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ni

  1. is

Swedish

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Etymology

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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/

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ni

  1. you (plural nominative)
  2. 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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Swedish personal pronouns
Number Person Type Nominative Oblique Possessive
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
1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.
2Informal
4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.
5Informal, somewhat dialectal
6Formal address
7Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

Tagalog

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Preposition

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ni

  1. Of; possessive particle. Used only with personal names.
    Bisikleta ni Juan
    Juan's bicycle
  2. Objective marker for personal names—objective form of si; functional equivalent of ng.

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Particle

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ni (Cyrillic ни)

  1. accusative case marker. It is placed after the direct object of a transitive verb.
    • Men O'zbek tilini o'rganyapman.
      "I am studying Uzbek."

Welsh

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Celtic *snīs (compare Old Irish sní).

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ni

  1. us; we

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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ni

  1. not

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  1. Combining stem of nina.

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2nd person plural concords[edit]
Full noun prefix: –
Basic noun prefix: –
Subject concord: ni-
Object concord: -ni-
Possessive concord: –
Adjective concord: eniba-
Relative concord: eni-
Pronoun: nina, -ni, -inu1
1 With possessive concords.
See Appendix:Zulu concords for a full table.
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