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ne

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ne"

Translingual Edit

Symbol Edit

ne

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Nepali.

English Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /nə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ə

Etymology 1 Edit

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Latin nē, Sanskrit न (ná), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.

Adverb Edit

ne (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Not.
    • c1500, Melusine (translation):
      For she ne dare doo, but to commande.
    • 1512, Robert Copland, The History of Helyas, Knight of The Swan‎[1]:
      And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the ne dyed for sorowe / wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge.
    • c1520, Andria by Terence (translation):
      This shold haue bene his skuce at the lest / And it ne had bene but good & honest.
    • c1520, Andria by Terence (translation):
      O so incessaunt thow ad in thy desyre / For so that thow thy mynde now mayst haue / Thow ne caryst what thow dost requyre.
    • 1550, The Mirror for Magistrates:
      For he ne had, nor could increase his line.
    • 1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet:
      In geving me to him whom I ne can, ne may, ne ought to love.
    • 1576, William Lambarde, A perambulation of Kent‎[2]:
      Mary (quoth the king) so might me mine, ne haddest thou been Earle Godwine: casting in his dish the murder of his brother Alfred, which was done to death at Elie by the Counsell of Godwine.
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:
      Ne durst again his fieri face out-show.
    • 1587, George Gascoigne, Francis Kinwelmershe, Jocasta:
      Ioc: How can that be and thou my ioy in warre? Po: Henceforth n'am I your ioy ne yet your sonne.
    • c. 1590, William Fowler, The Works of William Fowler‎[3]:
      What happs might chance me I ne knewe.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      His forces faile, ne can no lenger fight.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      As when a ship, that flyes faire vnder saile, / An hidden rocke escaped hath vnwares, / That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile, / The Marriner yet halfe amazed stares / At perill past, and yet it doubt ne dares / To ioy at his foole-happie ouersight.
    • 1591, John Phillip, A Commemoration on the Life and Death of the Right Honourable, Sir Christopher Hatton:
      And now sweete death most welcome vnto mee, thy stroakes ne can, ne shall me once dismay.
    • 1592, Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London:
      And twenty thousand infants that ne wot the right hand from the left.
    • 1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors‎[4]:
      But when he spoke, his plenteous words did flow / Like to thick-falling flakes of winter snow, / Ne any couth his wit so hiely straine.
    • 1614, John Davies of Hereford, Eclogue Between Young Willy the SInger of His Native Pastorals, and Old Wernocke His Friend‎[5]:
      Now, siker ( Wernocke ) thou hast split the marke / Albe that I ne wot I han mis-song: / But, for I am so yong, I dread my warke / Woll be misualued both of old and yong.
    • 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I, 2:
      Whilom in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth, / Who ne in virtue's ways did take delight [...].

Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. (obsolete) Nor.
    • 1484, Original Letters, King Edward the Fifth, under the direction of his Uncle, to Otes Gilbert, Esq., commanding him to receive Knighthood at the expected Coronation‎[6]:
      That than I shall not geve therunto faith ne credence, nor therfore put them to any maner ponyssement, before that they or any of them so accused may be at their lawful defence and answer.
    • 1489, The gouernayle of helthe‎[7]:
      And therin is no drede nor bytternes ne expences, but therin is pure recreacyon of body and of soule soo it be donn in clene places.
    • 1489, The gouernayle of helthe‎[8]:
      Be not to hasty ne sodenly vengeable, to poure folke doo no vyolence.
    • 1489, The gouernayle of helthe‎[9]:
      Moreouer no man be so hardy to drynk fastyng cold water, ne after that he hath accompanyed wyth a woman, ne after gret trauayle, ne after exersice tyll he haue fyrst rested hym, ne by nyght namely yf he haue do gloue tofore.
    • 1500, The Example of Euyll Tongues:
      A false tonge wyll euer Imagyne and saye / That neuer by creature was sayd ne thought.
    • 1509, Wynkyn de Worde, The fyftene joyes of maryage‎[10]:
      For chastyce can he not by daye ne nyght his wyfe but by his betynge maketh lyght and hote the loue bytwene her and her frende.
    • 1511, The Records of the City of Norwich‎[11]:
      Item, that noo woman nor maide weyve any worsted stamynges ne sayes for that that thei be nott of sufficient powre to werke the said worsteddes as thei owte to be wrought, upon payne of iij s iiij d as often as thei be founde wevyng to be devyded and leuyed in maner and forme aboue expressed.
    • 1520, Richard Pynson, The Lyfe of The Blessed Martyr Saynte Thomas‎[12]:
      That they shulde no lenger kepe ne susteyne Thomas the archebysshope.
    • 1526, The Grete Herball‎[13]:
      The rote ought to be gadered in the begynnynge of somer and dryed in the sonne bycause [tha]¬t it corrupt ne rotte bycause of the moystnesse[,] & it may be kept two yeres;
    • 1535, Thomas Elyot, The Education or Bringing up of Children:
      For lyinge is a detestable vice, and to be hated of all men, ne to be suffred amonge seruantis ne other persones[,] howe poure estate so euer they be of.
    • 1542, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegms (translation):
      Thus some persones beeyng inuited and exhorted to falle to the studie of lettres, make their excuse that thei bee sickely, that thei can not slepe ne take their naturall reste in the nightes.
    • 1558, Thomas Phaer, The Aeneid (translation):
      We Moores be not so base of wit, ne yet so blunt of mynd.
    • c. 1560, Edward Gosynhill, The Schoolhouse of Women‎[14]:
      The deuyll gossyp, ought me a shame / And prayde I am nowe, euerye penye I wolde god he had, be blinde and lame / The daye and houre, he fyrste woed me / Ware not gossyp, these chyldren thre I wolde not tary, ye may be sure / Longer with hym, daye ne houre.
    • 1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet:
      Neither extremitie, ne gentle meanes could boote; she hydeth close within her brest, her secret sorowes roote.
    • 1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet:
      Ne on her teares or plaint, at all to have remorse, but (if they can not with her will,) to bring the mayde perforce.
    • 1570, John Thynne, The Debate betweene Pride and Lowlines‎[15]:
      His hart encreaseth not thereby ne lesseth as edoon these fooles.
    • 1577, The Hereford Municipal Manuscript‎[16]:
      And that no victualer ne other person or persons forestall any kynde of victualls cominge to the said Cyty or within the precyncte of the same before the same victualls be come to the place.
    • 1587, George Gascoigne, Francis Kinwelmershe, Jocasta:
      Ioc: How can that be and thou my ioy in warre? Po: Henceforth n'am I your ioy ne yet your sonne.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      But to her cry they list not lenden eare, / Ne ought the more their mightie strokes surceasse.
    • 1634, W. Lathum, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Whose worth all outward is in shew alone / But inward sent hath not, ne vertue none.
    • 1798, Samuel Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ll. 443-6:
      The pang, the curse, with which they died, / Had never pass'd away; / I could not draw my een from theirs / Ne turn them up to pray.
Usage notes Edit
  • Ne survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is almost never used in common speech.

Etymology 2 Edit

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of any.

Anagrams Edit

Abinomn Edit

Noun Edit

ne (dual nerom, pural nekon)

  1. arrow (projectile)

Afar Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Pronoun Edit

né

  1. we, us

Usage notes Edit

  • The form née is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.

See also Edit

Afar personal pronouns
1st person 2nd person 3rd person m 3rd person f
Subject Singular anú atú úsuk ís
Plural nanú isín úsun
Object Singular yó kó ká tét
Plural né sín kén

References Edit

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “ne”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Ainu Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

ne (Kana spelling ネ)

  1. (intransitive, copulative) to be, become
    Ainu ne ruwe ne.
    He is an Ainu.

Derived terms Edit

See also Edit

  • an (“to exist”)

Albanian Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

The nominative-accusative is from accusative Proto-Albanian *nōs, stressed form of clitic Proto-Indo-European *nos, which is continued by the clitic na.[2] Neve and nesh are innovated, but Gheg retains dative nahe (Old Albanian nae) from a genitive *nosōm.

Pronunciation Edit

Pronoun Edit

ne (accusative ne, dative neve, ablative nesh)

  1. we, us

Declension Edit

forms of ne
ne (1st person plural)
nominative ne
ablative nesh
full form clitic
accusative ne na
dative neve na
possessive adjective possessive pronoun
ynë yni

See also Edit

Albanian personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person unë ne
2nd person ti ju
3rd person masculine ai ata
feminine ajo ato

References Edit

  1. ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 85, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 289

Blagar Edit

Noun Edit

ne

  1. human, person

References Edit

Breton Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Brythonic *ni.

Particle Edit

ne

  1. not

Usage notes Edit

Used combined with ket, mirroring French ne ... pas.

Catalan Edit

Pronoun Edit

ne (enclitic, contracted 'n, proclitic en, contracted proclitic n')

  1. represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun
  2. represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition de
  3. replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition de
  4. replaces the object of a causative verb

Usage notes Edit

  • ne cannot be used more than once as the object of a given verb.
  • While ne is usually used to replace phrases beginning with the preposition de, adverbial phrases (eg de pressa) are replaced with hi.
  • ne is sometimes used instead of ho to replace an adjective or indefinite noun as the predicate of a verb.
  • ne is sometimes used popularly to add emphasis to a sentence: in this sense, it has no translation in English.
  • -ne is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs ending with a consonant or ⟨u⟩, or between some adverbs/pronouns and a verb. In some varieties of Catalan (Balearic/Valencian) it can also occur in sentence-initial position.

See also Edit

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
1st person majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
2nd person formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person feminine 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-.

Chuukese Edit

Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. to (connects verbs)

Preposition Edit

ne

  1. Expressing a fraction or a ratio. Preceded by a nominator and followed by the denominator.

Czech Edit

Etymology Edit

inherited from Old Czech ne, from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Pronunciation Edit

Interjection Edit

ne

  1. no!

Particle Edit

ne

  1. not

See also Edit

Further reading Edit

  • ne in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • ne in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian Edit

Etymology Edit

From Latin nec, neque. Compare Italian nè, Spanish, Catalan and French ni, Romanian nici.

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. neither

Deg Edit

Noun Edit

ne

  1. water

References Edit

Dutch Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

From nen through apocope, itself a contraction of eenen, enen, the now-obsolete accusative form of een.

Pronunciation Edit

Article Edit

ne

  1. (Brabant) a, an
    ne man
    a man

Usage notes Edit

ne is used primarily in the dialects that retain the three-gender split. It is only used for masculine words, while een is used for feminine and neuter words.

The form nen is used before vowels (as the English an) and certain consonants (commonly b, d and t), differing from dialect to dialect.

See also Edit

Anagrams Edit

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl Edit

Determiner Edit

ne

  1. that.

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. that.

Esperanto Edit

Etymology Edit

From French ne, Polish nie, Russian не (ne), etc.

Pronunciation Edit

Particle Edit

ne

  1. no
  2. not
  3. non-

Antonyms Edit

Finnish Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Finnic *nek, from Proto-Uralic *ne + *-k (dual ending). Compare Erzya неть (netʹ).

The inflectional stem nii- derives from the same stem with the plural infix (-i-), through an older *nij- (< *ne-j-). Compare also se.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈne/, [ˈne̞]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification(key): ne

Pronoun Edit

ne (plural, stem nii-)

  1. (demonstrative, of things and animals) nominative plural of se: they, those (objects not pointed at by the speaker)
  2. (colloquial, dialectal, of people) nominative plural of se: they
    Synonym: he

Determiner Edit

ne

  1. nominative plural of se: those (not pointed at by the speaker)
    Tässä ne kirjat nyt ovat.
    This is where those books are now.

Usage notes Edit

See the usage notes under se.

Inflection Edit

The case suffixes are mostly regular (except the inessive and elative singular). Abessive is never used in singular and extremely seldom in plural. Instructive niin is more or less a theoretical construction, since it has developed into an adverb, and its current meaning cannot be derived from ne.

Declension of se
noun case singular pluraladverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative se nesuperessive siellä –
genitive sen niiden, niittendelative sieltä –
partitive sitä niitäsublative sinne –
accusative se, sen nelative siis –
inessive siinä niissätemporal silloin –
elative siitä niistäcausative siten –
illative siihen niihinmultiplicative – –
adessive sillä niillädistributive – –
ablative siltä niiltätemp. dist. – –
allative sille niilleprolative – –
essive sinä niinäsituative – –
translative siksi niiksioppositive – –
instructive – (niin)
abessive – (niittä)
comitative – niine

Descendants Edit

  • Kven: net
  • Meänkieli: net

See also Edit

Finnish demonstratives
proximal medial distal
singular tämä tuo se
plural nämä nuo ne
Finnish personal pronouns
first second third
familiar polite
singular minä sinä Te hän
plural me te he

Further reading Edit

Anagrams Edit

French Edit

Etymology Edit

From Middle French, from Old French nen or ne preceding words starting in a consonant, from Latin nōn.

Pronunciation Edit

Particle Edit

ne

  1. (literary) not (used alone to negate a verb; now chiefly with only a few particular verbs: see usage notes)
    • 1713, Voltaire, letter, Dec 1713:
      Je ne sais si je dois vous appeler Monsieur ou Mademoiselle […] .
      I don't know if I should call you Mr or Miss.
    • 1826, Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal, section XXXVIII:
      Le prince de France nous aime, celui d’Espagne ne cesse de nous secourir.
      The prince of France loves us, that of Spain never stops helping us.
    • 1868, Emile Zola, Madeleine Férat:
      Je n’ose te jurer que je t’aime toujours, parce que je sens bien que tu ne me croirais pas.
      I dare not swear that I still love you, for I sense that you would not believe me.
    • 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive:
      Mais je ne le crois pas : un homme qui trouve naturel de dénoncer des hommes ne peut avoir notre conception de l’humain […] .
      But I don't think so: a man who finds it natural to denounce men cannot have our idea of being human.
    • 1963, Françoise Hardy, L'Amour s'en va:
      L’amour s’en va, et le tien ne saurait durer.
      Love goes away, and yours will not be able to last.
  2. not, no (used before a verb, with a coordinating negative element usually following; see Usage Notes, below)
    • 1851, Henri Murger, Le pays latin:
      Je ne sais rien de plus odieux que l’hypocrisie.
      I don't know anything more odious than hypocrisy.
    • 1998, Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules Élémentaires:
      Bruno se rendit compte qu’il ne serait jamais accepté par les hippies […] .
      Bruno realised that he'd never be accepted by the hippies.
    • 2012 May 3, Le Monde:
      "Il n’y a pas eu un truc auquel on ne s’attendait pas", affirme Stéphane Le Foll.
      "There wasn't anything we weren't expecting," stated Stéphane Le Foll.
  3. Used in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb (especially when the main verb expresses doubt or fear), to provide extra overtones of doubt or uncertainty (but not negating its verb); the so-called "pleonastic" or "expletive" ne.
    • 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Derner Jour d'un Condamné, section XXVII:
      Ah! mes cheveux blanchiront avant que ma tête ne tombe!
      Oh! My hair will go white before my head falls!
    • 1837, George Sand, Mauprat:
      Oui, mais je crains qu’elle ne soit plus malade qu’elle ne l’avoue, repartit l’abbé.
      "Yes, but I think she might be more ill than she's letting on," the priest replied.
  4. In comparative clauses usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative
    Apprendre le français est plus facile qu'on ne pense.
    Learning French is easier than you (might) think.

Usage notes Edit

  • Typically, ne follows the subject and is itself followed by the verb and:
    • a negative adverbial (pas (“not; don't/doesn't”), plus (“no more, no longer”), jamais (“never”), guère (“hardly”), or (now literary) point (“not a bit”));
    • a nominal element modified by a negative determiner (aucun or nul, both meaning "no", "not a") — note that these phrases can take on nominal, pronominal or adverbial functions;
    • More mobile are negative pronouns, the commonest being personne (“nobody”) and rien (“nothing”), which will follow ne and the verb if they function as the object complement of that verb, but if they are the subject of a given clause, they will usually sit at its head:
    Personne ne s'en souviendra demain. ― No body will remember about it tomorrow.
    Rien ne le dérange. ― Nothing bothers him.
  • In literary French (i.e., the most formal variety of the written language) certain verbs can be negated with ne alone (without another negating element like pas). Nowadays, this list is restricted chiefly to the verbs pouvoir, savoir, cesser, oser, and daigner. Less formal registers still require coordination with another negative element.
  • In colloquial (i.e., spoken) French, ne is often omitted, leaving the other negating element (pas, plus, rien, personne, etc.) to indicate the sentence's negative state on its own (unless more than one of these elements is already present).
    Je veux pas ça. ― I don't want that.
    Il attend personne. ― He's not waiting for anyone.
    J'en ai plus besoin. ― I don't need it anymore.
    On va nulle part. ― We're not going anywhere.
In some regions, ne has disappeared from spoken language either entirely or nearly so. Even when it is included in spoken form, the weak "e" is often elided, causing the remaining /n/ to assimilate into nearby words. Compare a few possible versions of the above example, Je veux pas ça, more or less rising in levels of formality:
J’ veux pas ça. /ʒ‿vø pɑ sa/
Je veux pas ça. /ʒə vø pɑ sa/
Je n’ veux pas ça. /ʒə̃ vø pɑ sa/
Je ne veux pas ça. /ʒə nə vø pɑ sa/, /ʒə‿n.vø pɑ sa/

See also Edit

Further reading Edit

Anagrams Edit

German Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

From Middle High German ne, ni (“not, if not”), from Old High German ne, ni (“no, not, not at all, by no means”), from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”). Also possibly from a contraction of nicht, dialectal net, nit, ni.

Pronunciation Edit

Interjection Edit

ne

  2. (colloquial) right?; is it?; is it not?; tag question
    Synonyms: gell, nicht, nicht wahr, oder, wa
    Wir müssen da lang, ne?
    We need to go that way, don't we?
    Du hast keine Geschwister, ne?
    You don't have siblings, do you?

Etymology 2 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Interjection Edit

ne

  2. Alternative spelling of nee

Etymology 3 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Article Edit

ne

  2. Alternative spelling of 'ne

German Low German Edit

Article Edit

ne f

  1. (Paderbornisch) nominative/accusative feminine singular of en: a

Pronoun Edit

ne m

  1. (Paderbornisch) weak accusative of hei: him

See also Edit

Gothic Edit

Romanization Edit

nē

  1. Romanization of 𐌽𐌴

Hungarian Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. don't, should/shall not, stop (doing something)
    Ne hallgass rá! ― Don't listen to him!
    Ne felejtsd el! or (more emphatically) El ne felejtsd! ― (Mind you) don't forget it!
    Miért ne? (= Miért ne csináljuk/tegyük?) ― Why not? (literally, “Why shouldn't [we do it]?”)
    Bár ne tettem volna! ― I wish I hadn't done it.
    Ne lopj! ― Thou shalt not steal.

Usage notes Edit

Used before the verb in an imperative clause (or sometimes a conditional clause expressing a wish or desire) to negate that clause; ne is always used instead of nem in the imperative mood.

Derived terms Edit

Compound words
Expressions

Further reading Edit

  • ne 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

Ido Edit

Etymology Edit

From Esperanto ne, from French ne, Russian не (ne).

Pronunciation Edit

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. not, don’t

Noun Edit

ne (plural ne-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter N/n.

See also Edit

Derived terms Edit

  • ne- (“non-, un-, in-, im-, ir- (etc.)”)

Ingrian Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. Alternative form of neet
    • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:
      Miltaisee poolee ne ollaa opettajast?
      On which side of the teacher are they?

Determiner Edit

ne

  1. Alternative form of neet

References Edit

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 338

Anagrams Edit

Isthmus Zapotec Edit

Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. and

Istro-Romanian Edit

Etymology Edit

From Latin nix, nivem, through Proto-Romanian (compare Romanian nea, Aromanian neao), from Proto-Italic *sniks, from Proto-Indo-European *snígʷʰs (“snow”), root noun derived from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).

Noun Edit

ne f (definite nevu, genitive/dative lu nevu)

  1. snow

Italian Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

From Latin inde (“thence”). Compare French en (adverb, pronoun).

Alternative forms Edit

  • -ne (enclitic form)

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): °/ne/°
  • IPA(key): (traditional) /ne/°
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: ne
  • In modern usage but not traditional usage, this word actively blocks syntactic gemination of its initial consonant. Hence però ne prendo (“I (will) take some”) is pronounced /peˈrɔ ne ˈprɛndo/ in modern usage, but /peˈrɔ‿nne ˈprɛndo/ traditionally, since però normally triggers syntactic gemination.

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. from there
    Si chiuse in casa e non ne uscì per giorni.
    He shut himself in the house, and didn't come out for days.
    (literally, “He locked himself in house, and didn't from there come out for days.”)
Usage notes Edit
  • The adverb ne replaces di là (“from there”):
Sono di Genova; ne sono venuto stamattina.
I am from Genoa; I came from there this morning.

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. from this; from that; from these; from those, sometimes not translated in English
    Furono mesi di lavoro sfibrante, ma ne venne fuori un gran film.
    There were months of exhausting work, but a great movie came out of those.
  2. about this; about that; about these; about those
    Ne abbiamo parlato, ma non sono sicuro che abbia capito.
    We talked about that, but I'm not sure he understood.
    Certo che ricordo quell'evento: ne ho perfino scritto in un articolo.
    Of course I remember that event, I even wrote an article about that
  3. of this; of that; of these; of those, sometimes not translated in English
    Se è avanzata della torta, ne vorrei una fetta, per favore.
    If there's some cake left, I would like a slice.
    (literally, “If is left some cake, of it I would like a slice.”)
    Avevi promesso di tornare a casa, te ne ricordi?
    You promised you'd come back home, do you remember (that)?
    (literally, “You had promised to come back to home, do you of it remember?”)
  4. of them (sometimes not translated in English)
    Non ne ho più.
    I don't have any left.
    (literally, “I don't of it have any more.”)
  5. for this; of that; of these; of those, sometimes not translated in English
    Ho capito cos'ha fatto, ma non ne ho capito il motivo.
    I understood what he did, but I didn't understad the reason for that.
  6. intensive particle, used in forms of certain verbs suffixed with -ne, where it indicates a particular way of carrying out the verb's action
    Spalancò la porta e se ne andò tutta esultante.
    She slammed the door open, and left all cheerful.
    Se ne sta sdraiato per ore a non fare nulla.
    He just stays there lying down for hours, without doing anything.
  7. only used in forms of the verb of volerne (“to hold a grudge”)
    Non te ne vorrò.
    I won't hold a grudge against you.
  8. only used in forms of the verb of andarne (“to be at stake”)
    Ne va della tua vita.
    Your life is at stake.
Usage notes Edit
  • The pronoun ne stands for di + [pronoun], and can thus be a translation of “[preposition] + it/them” for any preposition that is translated as di in Italian.
See also Edit
Italian personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative Reflexive Accusative Dative Conjunctive 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).

Etymology 2 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): °°/ne/*
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: ne
  • This word triggers syntactic gemination of the following consonant, and may or may not block syntactic gemination of its initial consonant (contrast the pronominal usage above).

Contraction Edit

ne

  1. Apocopic form of nel
    Massimo Troisi non ha vinto un oscar per la sua interpretazione ne Il postino.
    Massimo Troisi did not win an Oscar for his performance in Il Postino.
Usage notes Edit
  • The contraction ne is used where nel, nella, etc., would ordinarily be used, but cannot be because the article is part of the title of a film, book, etc.
See also Edit

Further reading Edit

  • ne1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • ne2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Japanese Edit

Romanization Edit

ne

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ね
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ネ

Kalasha Edit

Determiner Edit

ne

  1. no

Particle Edit

ne

  1. no

Kapampangan Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • Hyphenation: ne
  • IPA(key): /ˈne/, [ˈnɛ]

Etymology 1 Edit

Contraction of na + ya.

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. Portemanteu of 3rd person singular possessive/ergative pronoun + 3rd person singular absolutive pronoun
    Ikit ne.
    S/he saw him/her.

Etymology 2 Edit

Compare Tagalog 'no, Japanese な (na), ね (ne).

Particle Edit

ne

  1. (informal) sentence-final particle indicating emotion or mild emphasis
    Nokarin ya kaya ne?
    Now, I wonder where is s/he?
  2. (tag question) Sentence-final question marker particle indicating emphasis and asking for confirmation: right?; eh?; isn't it, innit?
    Mako naku ne?
    I'm leaving, ok?

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. already; now (expresses the event when following a verb)
    Yari ne.
    Finished already.
  2. already; now (declares the event of action when following a verb in the past tense)
    Meko ne.
    s/he left already.
  3. already; now (suggests immediate or quick action when following the infinitive form and future tense of the verb)
    Papunta ne kanu.
    s/he said that s/he's coming already.
See also Edit

Karaim Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Turkic *nē-

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. what

References Edit

  • N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ne”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ, Moskva, →ISBN

Karelian Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Finnic *nek, from Proto-Uralic *ne. Cognates include Finnish ne and Estonian need.

Pronunciation Edit

Determiner Edit

ne

  1. these, those

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. these, those
  2. they (inanimate)

Declension Edit

Declension of ne
singular plural
nominative se ne
genitive sen niijen
partitive sitä niitä
inessive siinä niissä
elative siitä niistä
illative siih niih
adessive sillä niilä
ablative siltä niiltä
essive sinä niinä
translative siksi niiksi
abessive siittä niittä
comitative niineh

See also Edit

Karelian demonstratives
proximal medial distal
singular tämä se tuo
plural nämä ne nuo
Karelian personal pronouns
first second third
singular mie šie hiän
plural myö työ hyö

References Edit

  • P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 58

Ladin Edit

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. not

Latin Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Extended from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) (whence Old Latin ne (“not”)). Cognates include Proto-Germanic *ne (whence Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni) and Old English ne), Sanskrit न (ná), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.

Adverb Edit

nē (not comparable)

  1. no, not
    • 59 BC–AD 17, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.10:
      ne Crustumini quidem atque Antemnates […] satis se inpigre movent
      the Crustuminians and Antemnates did not move with enough energy
Derived terms Edit

Conjunction Edit

nē (+ subjunctive)

  1. that not, in order not to and similar; lest
    Vereor, nē videātur ōrātiō mea stulta.
    I fear lest my oration seem foolish.
Usage notes Edit
  • Not to be confused with the affirmative particle ne (see Etymology 2).
  • The adverb, in cases of prohibition, became obsolete in colloquial speech in late antiquity, being displaced by non, originally a solecism.
Derived terms Edit
Related terms Edit

Etymology 2 Edit

From Proto-Indo-European *né-h₁ (“that way, so”), which consists of *áno- (“yonder”, pronomial stem, distal) +‎ *-h₁ (modal and instrumental suffix). Cognate with Ancient Greek νή (nḗ, “yes, indeed”) and Proto-Germanic *-nā (emphatic suffix after adverbs) which features in Icelandic svona (“so”), hérna (“here”), and þarna (“there”).[1] The same pronominal stem is also present in the words enim (“for; truly”), nempe (“indeed”), and nam (“for”).

Interjection Edit

nē

  1. truly!, indeed!; only joined with personal pronouns and commonly connected with other affirmative particles
    • 44 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Philippics :
      At enim te in disciplinam meam tradideras—nam ita dixisti—domum meam ventitaras. Ne tu, si id fecisses, melius famae, melius pudicitiae tuae consuluisses.
      You had however committed yourself to my instruction and frequented my house, or so you claimed. You would certainly have been more mindful of your virtue and reputation if you had!

References Edit

  1. ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014), “Lexikon [Lexicon]”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (Indogermanische Bibliothek. 2. Reihe: Wörterbücher) (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, →ISBN, page 60, 62

Latvian Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Pronunciation Edit

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Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. not
    ne tikai ― not only
    ne visai ― not quite

Lithuanian Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Pronunciation Edit

Interjection Edit

ne

  1. no (used to show disagreement or negation)

Livonian Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. they; nominative plural of tämā

Luganda Edit

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Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. and (only used if the overall statement is grammatically positive)

See also Edit

References Edit

The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 94.

Mandarin Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Romanization Edit

ne (ne5／ne0, Zhuyin ˙ㄋㄜ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吶／呐
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呢

ne

  1. Nonstandard spelling of nē.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of né.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of nè.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of nê̄.

Usage notes Edit

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mezquital Otomi Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

From Proto-Otomi [Term?], from Proto-Otomian [Term?], from Proto-Oto-Pamean *neʔ.

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

ne

  1. (trans) want

Etymology 2 Edit

From Proto-Otomi *ne, from Proto-Otomian *ne, from Proto-Oto-Pamean *te/*ne, from Proto-Oto-Manguean *(Y)te(H)³.

Alternative forms Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

ne

  1. mouth
  2. snout
  3. edge (of a blade)
  4. bite, sting
  5. animals at the head of the herd

References Edit

  • Andrews, Enriqueta (1950) Vocabulario otomí de Tasquillo, Hidalgo‎[17] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 19, 47, 74
  • Hernández Cruz, Luis; Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)‎[18] (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 210

Middle Dutch Edit

Etymology Edit

From Old Dutch ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. not

Usage notes Edit

Immediately precedes the verb. Often found in combination with the synonymous niet or another negating adverb, which is placed elsewhere.

Alternative forms Edit

Descendants Edit

  • Dutch: n- (prefix)

Further reading Edit

Middle English Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

From Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Pronunciation Edit

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. not (negates the accompanying verb)
    Þei ne bileveden hire nought. ― They didn't believe her.
  2. not (to no degree, extent, or way)
    Þou ne art weyke. ― You aren't weak.

Usage notes Edit

  • Middle English lacks do-support. Instead, ne is simply used by itself: Puple deien, bot fame ne deieþ ("People die, but reputation does not die").
  • Middle English has negative concord, so negatives don't cancel out another, unlike formal English or Latin. ne is often accompanied by other negatives rather than used alone. Double, triple, and quadruple negatives are common: I ne oght no man noght ("I haven't owed anything to anyone," literally "I not owed no one nothing").
  • ne usually immediately precedes the verb; compare nought / nat, which usually follows it.

Related terms Edit

Descendants Edit

  • English: ne (obsolete)
  • Scots: ne (obsolete)

References Edit

Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. nor (and not, or (not), not)
  2. lest (in case, before)
  3. than (introducing a basis of comparison)

Usage notes Edit

  • ne can contract with certain words that follow it, such as ne was → nas. This is optional, so forms like ne was are possible.
  • ne... ne... is often found in correlative constructions, with the meaning of not... or...; this is comparable to modern English neither... (n)or....

Descendants Edit

  • English: ne (obsolete)
  • Scots: ne (obsolete)

References Edit

Middle French Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. not (used to negate a verb)
    • 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 22:
      Ha ha pourdieu franc chevalier et preux ne me occisez mie
      Ha! For the love of God honest and valiant knight, don't kill me!
    • 1530, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:
      et ne m'advint oncques de mentir ou asseurer chose que ne feust veritable
      It never happened to me to lie or to assure someone of something that wasn't truthful
    • 1562, Henry IV of France, Lettres Missives:
      Catherine de Médicis, ne tarda pas à faire venir auprès de lui, en 1561, sa femme et ses enfants.
      Catherine of Medicis did not hesitate to bring to him, in 1561, his wife and his children
Usage notes Edit
  • As in modern French, may be used in combination with another adverb, such as ne... iamais, ne... pas, ne... gaire, ne... mie, ne... oncques, ne... poin(c)t and ne... rien(s), but such an adverb is not required.

Etymology 2 Edit

See ny

Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. Alternative form of ny (“neither; nor”)

Mohawk Edit

Article Edit

ne

  1. the

Negerhollands Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

ne

  1. take

References Edit

  • Language Contact in the Danish West Indies (2012, →ISBN

Nheengatu Edit

Etymology Edit

From Old Tupi ne. Cognate with Guaraní nde.

Pronunciation Edit

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  • Hyphenation: ne
  • Rhymes: -e

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. (second-class) second-person singular personal pronoun (you, your)
    Ne akanhemu reikú nhaãsé ne kirá reikú.
    You are scared because you are fat.
    Aé uputari upitá ne irũmu.
    He wants to stay with you.
    Ne manha uwiké uka pisasú upé.
    Your mother enters the new house.

Usage notes Edit

  • As a second-class pronoun, ne is used as the subject of a sentence when its verb is a second-class one (those verbs are sometimes referred to as adjectives). The personal pronoun ne is also used when governed by any postposition with the exception of arama and supé. Finally, ne is used as a possessive pronoun as well.

See also Edit

Nheengatu personal pronouns
singular first-class pronoun second-class pronoun
first-person ixé se
second-person indé ne
third-person aé i
plural first-class pronoun second-class pronoun
first-person yandé yané
second-person penhẽ pe
third-person aintá (or tá) aintá (or tá)

References Edit

Northern Kurdish Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Iranian *na, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *na, from Proto-Indo-European *ne. Related to na.

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. not
    Ez ne kurd im.
    I'm not Kurdish.

Interjection Edit

ne

  1. no

Northern Ndebele Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Adjective Edit

-ne

  1. four

Inflection Edit

Adjective concord, tone L
Modifier Copulative
1st singular engimune ngimune
2nd singular omune umune
1st plural esibane sibane
2nd plural elibane libane
Class 1 omune mune
Class 2 abane bane
Class 3 omune mune
Class 4 emine mine
Class 5 eline line
Class 6 amane mane
Class 7 esine sine
Class 8 ezine zine
Class 9 ene ine
Class 10 ezine zine
Class 11 olune lune
Class 14 obune bune
Class 15 okune kune
Class 17 okune kune

Norwegian Nynorsk Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

From Old Norse nið f, possibly from Proto-Germanic *nidwō (“sinking; downfall”).

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

ne n (plural neet)

  1. a lunar phase of an old moon, i.e. period of time in which the moon is waning
    Antonym: ny

Derived terms Edit

References Edit

Anagrams Edit

Old Czech Edit

Etymology Edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Pronunciation Edit

Particle Edit

ne

  1. Negation particle; no, not

Descendants Edit

References Edit

Old English Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”).

Pronunciation Edit

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. not

Usage notes Edit

  • Old English does not have do-support. Instead, ne is simply used by itself: Menn sweltaþ, ac hlīsa ne swilt ("People die, but reputation does not die").
  • Ne is placed immediately before the finite verb: Sēo lǣrestre ne meahte furðum mīnes naman ġemunan (“The teacher could not even remember my name”). It only goes before infinitives on the rare occasion when there is no finite verb to negate: Iċ wēne þæt þū sċyle forlǣtan and eft ne cuman ("I think you should leave and not come back"), Uton ne forspillan nāne tīd mā ("Let's not waste any more time").
  • Ne negates verbs. Other parts of speech are negated with nā: Earg iċ eom, nā lǣwa ("I'm a coward, not a traitor"), Iċ hīe fræġn "Hū wæs þīn færeld?" and hēo cwæþ "Nā yfel" ("I asked her 'How was your trip?' and she said "Not bad'"). Nā is also used when the verb is only implied: Ne rēċe iċ hwæðer mē hwā ġelīefe þē nā ("I don't care if anyone believes me or not"). Nā also negates tō-infinitives and participles: Þās þing ġedafenode tō dōnne and þā ōðru nā tō forlǣtenne ("It would have made sense to do these things and not to neglect the others").
  • Ne and its accompanying verb often come at the beginning of a sentence: Ne meahte nān mann tecnāwan hwelcre mægðe hē wǣre ("Nobody could tell what tribe he was," literally "Couldn't nobody tell what tribe he was").
  • Old English has negative concord, meaning one negative doesn't cancel out another. Double, triple, and quadruple negatives are very common: Ne sċolde iċ nǣfre nānum menn nāwiht ("I've never owed anything to anyone," literally "I never not owed no one nothing").
  • In a few verbs beginning with a vowel, h, or w, ne actually fuses with the verb, creating nesan (“to not be”), nabban (“to not have”), nyllan (“to not want”), nytan (“to not know”), and nāgan (“to not own”). In the West Saxon dialect (the dialect of most surviving texts and sometimes referred to as "standard" Old English), the contracted forms are the norm, while in other dialects the uncontracted forms ne wesan, ne habban, etc. are also common.

Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. (in negative phrases) or, and not (optionally translated as "nor")
    Þurh þissa þinga ġehāt sind cumene tō anwealde unmenn. Ac hīe lēogaþ, ne ġelǣstaþ hīe þæt ġehāt, ne hīe nǣfre nyllaþ!
    By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie, they do not fulfill that promise, and they never will!
    • c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
      Sē enġel him cwæþ tō, "Ne cyss þū mīne fēt, ne þū mē ne hrepe."
      The angel said to him, "Don't kiss my feet, and don't touch me."
    • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy
      Nān mann hine ne cann, ne hē nānne mann ne furðum þæt ġeþēode.
      No one knows him, and he doesn't know anyone or even the language.
  2. ne... ne... is used to mean "[not...] or..." (optionally translated as "neither... nor...")
    Iċ næbbe ne frīend ne fīend. Wrace iċ hæbbe.
    I don't have friends or enemies. I have revenge.

Usage notes Edit

  • In the phrase "[not...] or...", ne is often used consecutively for "or": Iċ nāt ne ne rēċe hwelċes cynnes fugol hit sīe, hit is mīn frēond ("I don't know or care what kind of bird it is, it's my friend").

Descendants Edit

  • Middle English: ne, ny, ni
    • English: ne (obsolete)
    • Scots: ne (obsolete)

Old French Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

From Latin nōn.

Alternative forms Edit

  • nen (poetic, after vowels)

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. not; used to form negative constructions
Descendants Edit
  • French: ne

Etymology 2 Edit

From Latin nec.

Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. neither (not one or the other)
Descendants Edit
  • French: ni

Old Frisian Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”). Cognates include Old English ne and Old Saxon ne.

Pronunciation Edit

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. not

Descendants Edit

  • North Frisian:
    Heligoland: ni

Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. nor

Particle Edit

ne

  1. no

Synonyms Edit

References Edit

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old Saxon Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Germanic *ne.

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. not

Descendants Edit

  • Middle Low German: ne, en

Pali Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Alternative forms

Adjective Edit

ne

  1. accusative plural masculine of na (“those”)

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. accusative plural of na (“them, those”)

Phuthi Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Adjective Edit

-ne

  1. four

Inflection Edit

Adjective concord, tone L
Modifier Copulative
1st singular legimune gimune
2nd singular lomune umune
1st plural lesibane sibane
2nd plural lelibane libane
Class 1 lamune mhune
Class 2 labane bhane
Class 3 lomune mhune
Class 4 lemine mhine
Class 5 leline lhine
Class 6 lamane mhane
Class 7 lesine ssine
Class 8 letine ttine
Class 9 lene yhine
Class 10 letine ttine
Class 14 lobune bhune
Class 15 lokune kkune
Class 17 lokune kkune

Rawang Edit

Noun Edit

ne

  1. eye.

Romanian Edit

Alternative forms Edit

  • нє (pre-1860s Cyrillic form)

Etymology Edit

From Vulgar Latin nīs, from Latin nos. Compare nă (old form) and Aromanian nã.

Pronunciation Edit

Pronoun Edit

ne (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of noi)

  1. (direct object, first-person plural) us
    El ne urmează.
    He's following us.

Related terms Edit

  • noi (stressed accusative)

Pronoun Edit

ne (unstressed dative and reflexive form of noi)

  1. (indirect object) (to) us
    Ele ne dau cadouri.
    They give us presents.

Related terms Edit

See also Edit

Saterland Frisian Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /nə/
  • Hyphenation: ne

Article Edit

ne

  1. Form of of n used before feminine adjectives
    Dät is n Gous. Ne grieze Gous. ― That's a goose. A grey goose.

Scots Edit

Etymology Edit

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /neɪ/, /nɛ/, /nə/, /n(ː)/

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. (archaic, rare) Not.
    Ne look at the sky, when ye tread bumpy roads.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    (A Northern English folk saying)

Conjunction Edit

ne

  1. (archaic, rare) Nor.
    Ne mother, ne father, ne friends, ne foes ne-knew what had worthen of him.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Usage notes Edit

  • Ne is a negative particle and it is used preverbally, i.e. it is placed directly before a verb, for example,ː"What haps might chance me I ne knew" (William Fowler (makar), 1590) and "To suffer exile he said that he ne couth" (Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid, 1513). Now archaic and chiefly dialectal, it is still understood and used by a few rural speakers in Scotland and Northern England.
  • As a conjunction, it is placed immediately before the word it negates as inː ne mickle, ne little; Twas ne man, ne woman.. ne beast; ne rich, ne poor, ne bold, ne meek, ne stong, ne weak can escape God's wrath.
  • In urban areas and cities became displaced by na or nae.

Further reading Edit

Serbo-Croatian Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Pronunciation Edit

Particle Edit

ne (Cyrillic spelling не)

  1. not (denoting negation)
    ne znam ― I don't know
    on je ne samo darovit, već i jako marljiv ― he is not only talented, but also very industrious
    htio-ne htio ― whether you want it or not
    da ne spavaš? / ne spavaš li? / zar ne spavaš? ― aren't you sleeping?
    ne mogu, a da ne… ― I cannot but…
    reći ne ― to say no; refuse, decline
    ne manje nego/od… ― no less than…
    ne doći ― to fail to come, not come
    … Zar ne? ― … Aren't you? (Isn't it?, Do you?, Don't you?)
    neću ― I won't

Interjection Edit

ne (Cyrillic spelling не)

  1. no
    Jesi li demokrat? Ne! ― Are you a democrat? No!

Synonyms Edit

  • jok (dialectal)

Antonyms Edit

Slovene Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Pronunciation Edit

Particle Edit

nȅ

  1. not (negates meaning of verb)
  2. no (expresses disapproval, disagreement)

Antonyms Edit

Further reading Edit

  • “ne”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Southern Ndebele Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Adjective Edit

-ne

  1. four

Inflection Edit

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Sumerian Edit

Romanization Edit

ne

  1. Romanization of 𒉈 (ne)

Swazi Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Adjective Edit

-ne

  1. four

Inflection Edit

Adjective concord, tone L
Modifier Copulative
1st singular lengimune ngimune
2nd singular lomune umune
1st plural lesibane sibane
2nd plural lenibane nibane
Class 1 lomune mune
Class 2 labane bane
Class 3 lomune mune
Class 4 lemine mine
Class 5 leline line
Class 6 lamane mane
Class 7 lesine sine
Class 8 letine tine
Class 9 lene ine
Class 10 letine tine
Class 11 lolune lune
Class 14 lobune bune
Class 15 lokune kune
Class 17 lokune kune

Tagalog Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

Compare Ilocano ne, Kapampangan ne, and Japanese ね (ne).

Pronunciation Edit

Particle Edit

ne (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒ)

  1. (Nueva Ecija, tag question) Sentence-final question marker particle indicating emphasis and asking for confirmation: right?; eh?; isn't it, innit?
    Synonyms: 'no, 'di ba, ano, (Rizal) hane
    Tapos magkikita tayo sa bahay ni Aling Neneng, ne?
    Afterwards, we'll see each other at Ms. Neneng's house, am I right?
    Naligo ka na, ne?
    You already took a bath, right?

Ternate Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Determiner Edit

ne

  1. (proximal) this, these
    namo ne ― this chicken

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. (demonstrative) this
    ngori tomau ne ― I want this
    ne foke ― this is a cockroach

References Edit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Turkish Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

From Ottoman Turkish نه (ne, “what, whatever, how”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ne, “what”), from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰤𐰀 (n²a /ne/, “what, which”), Karakhanid نا‎ (ne), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ne), Azerbaijani nə, Salar neñ, Bashkir ни (ni), Chuvash мӗн (mĕn) (metathesis < *ne-me), Kazakh не (ne), Khakas ниме (nime), Kyrgyz не (ne), Tatar ни (ni), Turkmen nǟmä, Tuvan чүү (çüü), Uyghur نېمە (nëme), Uzbek na, Yakut туох (tuox).

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. what
    Ne istiyorsun? ― What do you want?
  2. whatever
    Ne istersen yaparım. ― I will do whatever you want.
Declension Edit
Inflection
Nominative ne
Definite accusative neyi
Singular Plural
Nominative ne neler
Definite accusative neyi neleri
Dative neye nelere
Locative nede nelerde
Ablative neden nelerden
Genitive neyin nelerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular neyim nelerim
2nd singular neyin nelerin
3rd singular neyi neleri
1st plural neyimiz nelerimiz
2nd plural neyiniz neleriniz
3rd plural neleri neleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular neyimi nelerimi
2nd singular neyini nelerini
3rd singular neyini nelerini
1st plural neyimizi nelerimizi
2nd plural neyinizi nelerinizi
3rd plural nelerini nelerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular neyime nelerime
2nd singular neyine nelerine
3rd singular neyine nelerine
1st plural neyimize nelerimize
2nd plural neyinize nelerinize
3rd plural nelerine nelerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular neyimde nelerimde
2nd singular neyinde nelerinde
3rd singular neyinde nelerinde
1st plural neyimizde nelerimizde
2nd plural neyinizde nelerinizde
3rd plural nelerinde nelerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular neyimden nelerimden
2nd singular neyinden nelerinden
3rd singular neyinden nelerinden
1st plural neyimizden nelerimizden
2nd plural neyinizden nelerinizden
3rd plural nelerinden nelerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular neyimin nelerimin
2nd singular neyinin nelerinin
3rd singular neyinin nelerinin
1st plural neyimizin nelerimizin
2nd plural neyinizin nelerinizin
3rd plural nelerinin nelerinin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular neyim nelerim
2nd singular nesin nelersin
3rd singular ne
nedir 		neler
nelerdir
1st plural neyiz neleriz
2nd plural nesiniz nelersiniz
3rd plural neler nelerdir
Related terms Edit

Adverb Edit

ne

  1. what, how, such
    Ne güzel! ― How beautiful!
    Ne güzel bir gün! ― What a beautiful day!
  2. Used as an intensifier to express surprise, astonishment, together with expressions like be!, ha!.
    Ne osurdun be! ― You farted such (that probably the whole world heard it).

Etymology 2 Edit

From Ottoman Turkish نه (ne, “neither; nor”), from Persian نه (na). Cognate to Old English ne (“not”).

Conjunction Edit

ne ... ne ...

  1. neither; nor
    Ne bu ne şu ― Neither this nor that
Usage notes Edit
  • Not used alone but rather as ne...ne..., the way it is used is directly copied from Persian نه...نه...(“neither; nor”).
Antonyms Edit

Etymology 3 Edit

Noun Edit

ne

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*nē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Tuvaluan Edit

Particle Edit

ne

  1. past tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

Unami Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Pronoun Edit

në

  1. that (inanimate)

See also Edit

Unami demonstrative pronouns
Animate Inanimate Obviative
Proximal Singular (near the speaker) wa, wàn, wàni yu, yun, yuni yul, yuli
Distal Singular (far from the speaker) na, nàn, nàni në, nën, nëni
Proximal plural (near the speaker) yuki, yuk yuli, yul nèl
Distal plural (far from the speaker) nèki, nèk nèl
Absentative (inaccessible to speaker, deceased) distal singular naka
Absentative (inaccessible to speaker, deceased) distal plural nèl
Absentative (inaccessible to speaker, deceased) proximal singular waka

Ura (Vanuatu) Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

ne

  1. water
  2. river

Further reading Edit

  • Terry Crowley, Ura: A Disappearing Language of Southern Vanuatu (1999)

Votic Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈne/, [ˈne]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: ne

Pronoun Edit

ne

  1. Alternative form of need

Welsh Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

ne

  1. Nasal mutation of de.

Mutation Edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
de dde ne unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Makian Edit

Etymology Edit

Likely cognate with Ternate ne (“this”).

Pronunciation Edit

Determiner Edit

ne

  1. (proximal) this, these
    Synonyms: mene, nema
    Antonym: ma
    pala ne ilamo ― this house is large
    nudupe de ngeu ne ― throw away these leftovers

References Edit

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[19], Pacific linguistics

Xhosa Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Adjective Edit

-ne

  1. four

Inflection Edit

Adjective concord, tone L
Modifier Copulative
positive negative positive negative
1st singular endimne endingemne ndimne andimne
2nd singular omne ongemne umne awumne
1st plural esibane esingebane sibane asibane
2nd plural enibane eningebane nibane anibane
Class 1 omne ongemne mne akamne
Class 2 abane abangebane bane ababane
Class 3 omne ongemne mne awumne
Class 4 emine engemine mine ayimine
Class 5 eline elingeline line aliline
Class 6 amane angemane mane awamane
Class 7 esine esingesine sine asisine
Class 8 ezine ezingezine zine azizine
Class 9 ene engene ine ayiyine
Class 10 ezine ezingezine zine azizine
Class 11 olune olungelune lune alulune
Class 14 obune obungebune bune abubune
Class 15 okune okungekune kune akukune
Class 17 okune okungekune kune akukune

Yup'ik Edit

Noun Edit

ne (absolutive ena)

  1. house

Zou Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

ne

  1. lip

Verb Edit

ne

  1. (transitive) to eat

Derived terms Edit

References Edit

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, pages 40-41

Zulu Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Adjective Edit

-ne

  1. four

Inflection Edit

Adjective concord, tone L
Modifier Copulative
positive negative positive negative
1st singular engimune engingemune ngimune angimune
2nd singular omune ongemune umune awumune
1st plural esibane esingebane sibane asibane
2nd plural enibane eningebane nibane anibane
Class 1 omune ongemune mune akamune
Class 2 abane abangebane bane ababane
Class 3 omune ongemune mune awumune
Class 4 emine engemine mine ayimine
Class 5 eline elingeline line aliline
Class 6 amane angemane mane awamane
Class 7 esine esingesine sine asisine
Class 8 ezine ezingezine zine azizine
Class 9 ene engene, engeyine ine, yine ayiyine
Class 10 ezine ezingezine zine azizine
Class 11 olune olungelune lune alulune
Class 14 obune obungebune bune abubune
Class 15 okune okungekune kune akukune
Class 17 okune okungekune kune akukune

Derived terms Edit

References Edit

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