não
See also: Appendix:Variations of "nao"
AromanianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
não
- Alternative form of nãu
GalicianEdit
AdverbEdit
não
- reintegrationist spelling of non
NounEdit
não m (plural nãos)
- no (a negative answer)
Further readingEdit
- “não” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
PortugueseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- naõ (obsolete)
- nam (obsolete)
- nom (nonstandard or eye dialect)
- num (nonstandard or eye dialect)
- n (abbreviation)
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician-Portuguese non, from Latin nōn (“no”), from Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *óynos (“one”).
PronunciationEdit
- (colloquial, only for the adverb when unstressed) IPA(key): /nũ/
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: não
Audio (BR) (file)
AdverbEdit
não (not comparable)
- (preceding verbs or adverbs) not; do not; have not (negates the meaning of the verb or adverb)
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 225:
- Harry teve a nítida impressão de que ele não era o único que estava omitindo informações naquele momento.
- Harry had the clear impression that he was not the only one who was omitting information in that moment.
- 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 162:
- Não abro cartas.
- I don't open letters.
- Eu não li esse livro.
- I haven’t read that book.
- Por favor, não faça isso.
- Please, don’t do that.
- (preceding verbs) used in sentences containing a negative pronoun as the object; see double negative
- Eu não fiz nada.
- I didn’t do anything.
- (literally, “I didn’t do nothing.”)
- (Brazil, colloquial, following verb phrases) used to emphasise or reinforce (in the case that there is a previous unstressed adverb não, see above) sentences containing a negative pronoun as the subject or already containing não
- Ninguém vai ser preso não.
- Nobody is really going to be arrested.
- Não vi o João não.
- I haven’t seen John, no.
- (beginning questions) isn't (used to ask whether a person agrees with the proposition, rather than to ask for an unknown fact)
- Não está mau o chá?
- Isn’t the tea bad?
- (preceding adjectives, usually hyphenated) non- (forms antonyms of adjectives)
- O sistema é não-escalável.
- The system is non-scalable.
- (as a sentence-final parenthesis) isn't it? right? (tag question)
- Ela está aqui, não?
- She is here, right?
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:não.
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
InterjectionEdit
não
- no (used to show disagreement or negation)
- Synonym: negativo
- no (used to show agreement with a negative question)
- Synonym: positivo
AntonymsEdit
NounEdit
não m (plural nãos)
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 腦 (“brain”).
NounEdit
(classifier bộ) não
- brain, cerebrum
- Synonym: óc
- Bộ não người có nhiều điều chưa lí giải được.
- There are still many unexplained things about the human brain.
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
Etymology 2Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 惱 (“unhappy”).
AdjectiveEdit
não
Derived termsEdit
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