ge
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Russian гэ (gɛ).
NounEdit
ge (plural ges)
- The name of the Cyrillic script letter Г / г.
BasqueEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ge inan
- The name of the Latin-script letter G.
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ge (inanimate, ending in vowel) | |||
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indefinite | singular | plural | |
absolutive | ge | gea | geak |
ergative | gek | geak | geek |
dative | geri | geari | geei |
genitive | geren | gearen | geen |
comitative | gerekin | gearekin | geekin |
causative | gerengatik | gearengatik | geengatik |
benefactive | gerentzat | gearentzat | geentzat |
instrumental | gez | geaz | geez |
inessive | getan | gean | geetan |
locative | getako | geko | geetako |
allative | getara | gera | geetara |
terminative | getaraino | geraino | geetaraino |
directive | getarantz | gerantz | geetarantz |
destinative | getarako | gerako | geetarako |
ablative | getatik | getik | geetatik |
partitive | gerik | — | — |
prolative | getzat | — | — |
See alsoEdit
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -e
NounEdit
ge f (plural ges)
- The name of the Latin-script letter G.
CebuanoEdit
InterjectionEdit
ge
DutchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ge
- (dialectal, colloquial) unstressed form of gij: you
- Da ge bedankt zeet da witte!
- You know I'm thankful!
Usage notesEdit
- See usage notes at gij
InflectionEdit
subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner, mijns |
2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer, jouws |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer, haars |
3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
plural | |||||||||
1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer, onzes |
2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner, huns |
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). |
5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural. |
AnagramsEdit
EmilianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- Becomes g’ before a vowel (proclitic).
- A g’andám edmān. ― We go there tomorrow.
- La g’à parlê. ― She talked to them.
- Becomes -eg when acting as an enclitic (after a consonant).
- J-eg vān edmān. ― They go there tomorrow. (imperative, singular)
- J-eg dān da fêr. ― They give her trouble.
- Becomes -g when acting as an enclitic (after a vowel).
- A-g vag edmān. ― I’m going there tomorrow. (imperative, plural)
- A-g pôrt di munjêgi. ― I bring him some apricots.
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin illī (nominative plural and dative singular of ille). Cognate with Catalan li and Italian gli.
PronounEdit
ge (personal, dative case)
Related termsEdit
Number | Person | Gender | Disjunctive (tonic) |
Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Reflexive (-self) |
Comitative (with) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | mè | a | me | mêg | ||
Second | — | tè | et | te | têg | |||
Third | Masculine | ló | al | ge | se | sêg | ||
Feminine | lê | la | ||||||
Plural | First | Masculine | nuēter | a | se | nōsk | ||
Feminine | nuētri | |||||||
Second | Masculine | vuēter | a | ve | vōsk | |||
Feminine | vuētri | |||||||
Third | Masculine | lôr | i | ge | se | sêg | ||
Feminine | el | li |
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin hīc (“here”). Cognate with Catalan hi, French y, Italian ci.
PronounEdit
ge (adverbial, locative case)
FaroeseEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ge n (genitive singular ges, plural ge)
- The name of the Latin-script letter G.
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ge | ||||
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n4 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ge | geið | ge | geini |
accusative | ge | geið | ge | geini |
dative | ge, gei | genum | geum | geunum |
genitive | ges | gesins | gea | geanna |
See alsoEdit
IdoEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ge (plural ge-i)
- The name of the Latin script letter G/g.
See alsoEdit
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
ge
LashiEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ge
ReferencesEdit
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gē f (indeclinable)
- The name of the letter G.
Coordinate termsEdit
- (Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta
ReferencesEdit
- “ge”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
- “ge”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 個/个
RomanizationEdit
ge
- Nonstandard spelling of gē.
- Nonstandard spelling of gé.
- Nonstandard spelling of gě.
- Nonstandard spelling of gè.
Usage notesEdit
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
MapudungunEdit
NounEdit
ge (Raguileo spelling)
ReferencesEdit
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronounEdit
ge
- Alternative form of ye (“you”)
Etymology 2Edit
PronounEdit
ge
- Alternative form of heo (“she”)
OccitanEdit
NounEdit
ge f (plural ges)
- The name of the Latin-script letter G.
OjibweEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
AdverbEdit
ge
- as for
- also, too, and
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/ge-adv-conj
Old EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from *jīz, an early variation of Proto-Germanic *jūz, representing Proto-Indo-European *yūs.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ġē
- you (plural): nominative plural of þū
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Germanic *jahw, from *ja + *-hw.
PronunciationEdit
ConjunctionEdit
ġe
- and; often doubled as ġe... ġe... ("both... and...")
DescendantsEdit
Old FrenchEdit
PronounEdit
ge
- Alternative form of je
Old SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ge
DescendantsEdit
- Spanish: se
RawaEdit
PronounEdit
ge
ReferencesEdit
- Norma Toland, Donald Toland, Reference Grammar of the Karo/Rawa Language (1991)
RomagnolEdit
NounEdit
ge m or f (invariable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter G.
See alsoEdit
Scottish GaelicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish cía (“although”). Cognate with Irish cé.
ConjunctionEdit
ge
SynonymsEdit
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ge f (plural ges)
- The name of the Latin-script letter G.
Etymology 2Edit
Latin illī; akin to Portuguese lhe, Italian gli.
PronounEdit
ge
- Obsolete form of se (as a dative pronoun)
Further readingEdit
- “ge”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SumerianEdit
RomanizationEdit
ge
- Romanization of 𒄀 (ge)
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Apocopic form of giva, with umlaut, from Old Swedish giva, gæva, from Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰab(ʰ)-. Compare Old English giefan (whence English give).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
ge (present ger, preterite gav, supine gett, imperative ge)
- to give
- Synonym: giva (dated)
- 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Book of Matthew, 25:42
- Ty iagh war hungrogh / och j gåffuen migh icke äta. Jagh war torstigh / och j gåffuen migh icke dricka.
- (pre-1906 spelling) Ty jag var hungrig, och I gåfven mig icke äta; jag var törstig, och I gåfven mig icke dricka.
- For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink.
- (reflexive) to give up, to surrender, to quit
- to give (to exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield)
Usage notesEdit
- The older full conjugation (giva, giver) is complete with present and past participles. The short conjugation (ge, ger) does not provide acceptable forms for participles (*geende, *gedd), but is now the preferred and dominating choice for other cases (ge, ger, gett).
ConjugationEdit
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | ge | ges | ||
Supine | gett | getts | ||
Imperative | ge | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | gen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | ger | gav | ges | gavs |
Ind. plural1 | ge | gåvo | ges | gåvos |
Subjunctive2 | ge | gåve | ges | gåves |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | givande | |||
Past participle | given | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | giva | givas | ||
Supine | givit | givits | ||
Imperative | giv | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | given | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | giver | gav | givs, gives | gavs |
Ind. plural1 | giva | gåvo | givas | gåvos |
Subjunctive2 | give | gåve | gives | gåves |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | givande | |||
Past participle | given | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | gifva | gifvas | ||
Supine | gifvit | gifvits | ||
Imperative | gif | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | gifven | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | gifver | gaf | gifs, gifves | gafs |
Ind. plural1 | gifva | gåfvo | gifvas | gåfvos |
Subjunctive2 | gifve | gåfve | gifves | gåfves |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | gifvande | |||
Past participle | gifven | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- ge in Svensk ordbok.
AnagramsEdit
TernateEdit
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
ge
PronounEdit
ge
- (demonstrative) this
- ngori tomau ge ― I want that
- ge foke ― that is a cockroach
ReferencesEdit
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
TurkishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ge (definite accusative geyi, plural geler)
- The name of the Latin-script letter G.
See alsoEdit
TurkmenEdit
NounEdit
ge (definite accusative geni, plural geler)
- The name of the Latin-script letter G.
See alsoEdit
YorubaEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gé
- (transitive) to cut something; especially using a tool
- Synonym: ké
- to segment into parts
- mo gé e wẹ́lẹ́-wẹ́lẹ́ ― I segmented it into small pieces
- (stative, intransitive) to become cut, snapped, or broken
- Synonym: ké
Derived termsEdit
ZaghawaEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
ge