n'

See also: Appendix:Variations of "n"

English

Conjunction

n'

1. Nonstandard spelling of ’n’.

Asturian

Etymology

Contraction of the preposition en (“in”)

Preposition

n'

1. in

Usage notes

• The preposition en contracts to n' before a word beginning with a vowel or h: n'Asturies (in Asturias), n'honor (in honor)

Related terms

• en

Catalan

Pronoun

n'

1. Contraction of en.

Usage notes

• n' is the elided (elida) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs beginning with a vowel.

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

			strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
				proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
singular	1st person	standard	jo, mi3	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
		majestic1	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
		formal1	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		very formal2	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
	3rd person	m	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
		f	ella	la, l’4	-la	li	-li	seu
		n		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
plural
	1st person		nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		formal2	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
	3rd person	m	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
		f	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive			si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial	ablative/genitive			en, n’	-ne, ’n
	locative			hi	-hi

¹ Behaves grammatically as plural.   ² Behaves grammatically as third person.
³ Only as object of a preposition.   ⁴ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n‿/

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Contraction

n’

1. Prevocalic form of ne.

Further reading

• “n'”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adverb

n' (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of ne

Pronoun

n' (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of ne

Usage notes

• Rarely elides, except before essere, è, era etc. It sometimes elides before i or e, especially when following another unstressed pronoun.

See also

Italian personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Combined	Disjunctive	Locative	Partitive
Singular	first	—	io	mi, m', -mi			me	me	—
	second	—	tu	ti, t', -ti			te	te
	third	m	lui	si2, s', -si	lo, l', -lo	gli, -gli	glie, se2	lui, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f	lei, Lei1		la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1	le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1		lei, Lei1, sé
Plural	first	—	noi	ci, c', -ci			ce	noi	—
	second	—	voi, Voi4	vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4			ve	voi, Voi4
	third	m	loro, Loro1	si, s', -si	li, Li1, -li, -Li1	gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1	glie, se	loro, Loro1, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f			le, Le1, -le, -Le1
1	Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
2	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3	Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language.
4	Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).

Ladin

Article

n' f

1. an, a

Synonyms

• na

See also

• n

Middle French

Adverb

n' (apocopate)

1. (before vowel sound) Apocopic form of ne

Usage notes

• The apostrophe may be omitted in older manuscripts

  ilz nen parlerent ― they weren't speaking about it

Neapolitan

Article

n'

1. Contraction of na.
2. Contraction of nu.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n‿/

Preposition

n’

1. Alternative form of em (used before words beginning in a vowel, archaic except before a facultative contraction containing part of a proper name)

   Os trechos a seguir aparecem n'Os Lusíadas.

   The following excerpts appear in Os Lusíadas.

Saterland Frisian

Article

n'

1. Alternative spelling of n

Tooro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n‿/

Conjunction

n'

1. (before a vowel) Apocopic form of na.