ne
Translingual Edit
Symbol Edit
ne
English Edit
Pronunciation Edit
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)
- (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 [...].
- c1500, Melusine (translation):
Conjunction Edit
ne
- (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
- (stenoscript) Abbreviation of any.
Anagrams Edit
Abinomn Edit
Noun Edit
- arrow (projectile)
Afar Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Pronoun Edit
né
Usage notes Edit
- The form née is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.
See also Edit
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)
- (intransitive, copulative) to be, become
- Ainu ne ruwe ne.
- He is an Ainu.
Derived terms Edit
- newa (“and”)
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)
Declension Edit
See also Edit
References Edit
- ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 85, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 289
Blagar Edit
Noun Edit
ne
References Edit
Breton Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Brythonic *ni.
Particle Edit
ne
Usage notes Edit
Catalan Edit
Pronoun Edit
ne (enclitic, contracted 'n, proclitic en, contracted proclitic n')
- represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun
- represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition de
- replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition de
- 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
Chuukese Edit
Conjunction Edit
ne
- to (connects verbs)
Preposition Edit
ne
- 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
- no!
Particle Edit
ne
See also Edit
Further reading Edit
Dalmatian Edit
Etymology Edit
From Latin nec, neque. Compare Italian nè, Spanish, Catalan and French ni, Romanian nici.
Adverb Edit
ne
Deg Edit
Noun Edit
ne
References Edit
- Maurice Delafosse, Vocabulaires comparatifs de plus de 60 langues ou dialectes parlés à la Côte d’Ivoire et dans les régions limitrophes : avec des notes linguistiques et ethnologiques, une bibliographie et une carte (Paris, E. Leroux, 1904), page 231
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
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
- that.
Pronoun Edit
ne
- that.
Esperanto Edit
Etymology Edit
From French ne, Polish nie, Russian не (ne), etc.
Pronunciation Edit
Particle Edit
ne
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
Pronoun Edit
ne (plural, stem nii-)
- (demonstrative, of things and animals) nominative plural of se: they, those (objects not pointed at by the speaker)
- (colloquial, dialectal, of people) nominative plural of se: they
- Synonym: he
Determiner Edit
ne
- 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
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Descendants Edit
See also Edit
Further reading Edit
- "ne" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
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
- (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.
- 1713, Voltaire, letter, Dec 1713:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- “ne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- French grammar: Negation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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
- (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
- Alternative spelling of nee
Etymology 3 Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Article Edit
ne
- Alternative spelling of 'ne
German Low German Edit
Article Edit
ne f
- (Paderbornisch) nominative/accusative feminine singular of en: a
Pronoun Edit
ne m
- (Paderbornisch) weak accusative of hei: him
See also Edit
Gothic Edit
Romanization Edit
nē
- Romanization of 𐌽𐌴
Hungarian Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Adverb Edit
ne
- 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
- ajándék lónak ne nézd a fogát
- aki nem dolgozik, ne is egyék
- akinek vaj van a fején, ne menjen a napra
- amit ma megtehetsz, ne halaszd holnapra
- félreértés ne essék
- hogy egyik szavam a másikba ne öltsem
- ne igyál előre a medve bőrére
- ne keltsd fel az alvó oroszlánt
- ne szólj, szám, nem fáj fejem
- ne zavartasd magad
- soha ne add fel
- tisztesség ne essék szólván
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
Noun Edit
ne (plural ne-i)
- The name of the Latin script letter N/n.
See also Edit
- (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze (Category: io:Latin letter names)
Derived terms Edit
- ne- (“non-, un-, in-, im-, ir- (etc.)”)
Ingrian Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Pronoun Edit
ne
- 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
- 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
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
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
- 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
- Sono di Genova; ne sono venuto stamattina.
- I am from Genoa; I came from there this morning.
Pronoun Edit
ne
- 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.
- 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
- 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?”)
- 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.”)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Conjunctive | Disjunctive | Locative | Partitive |
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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
- 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
Japanese Edit
Romanization Edit
ne
Kalasha Edit
Determiner Edit
ne
Particle Edit
ne
Kapampangan Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Pronoun Edit
ne
- 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
- (informal) sentence-final particle indicating emotion or mild emphasis
- Nokarin ya kaya ne?
- Now, I wonder where is s/he?
- (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
- already; now (expresses the event when following a verb)
- Yari ne.
- Finished already.
- already; now (declares the event of action when following a verb in the past tense)
- Meko ne.
- s/he left already.
- 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
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
Pronoun Edit
ne
Declension Edit
See also Edit
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
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)
- no, not
- 59 BC–AD 17, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.10:
Derived terms Edit
- nē quidem (not even)
Conjunction Edit
nē (+ subjunctive)
- that not, in order not to and similar; lest
- Vereor, nē videātur ōrātiō mea stulta.
- I fear lest my oration seem foolish.
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.11:
- nē quem post sē hostem reliqueret
- in order not to leave any enemy behind himself
- nē quem post sē hostem reliqueret
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.10:
- sī reliquam partem hiemis ūnō locō legiōnēs continēret, nē stipendiāriīs Aeduōrum expugnātīs cūncta Gallia dēficeret
- [he feared] lest if he should confine his legions in one place for the remaining part of the winter, all Gaul would revolt when the stipendiaries of the Aedui were subdued
- sī reliquam partem hiemis ūnō locō legiōnēs continēret, nē stipendiāriīs Aeduōrum expugnātīs cūncta Gallia dēficeret
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.11:
- veritus nē noctū ex oppidō prōfugerent
- he feared lest [the enemy] should escape by night
- veritus nē noctū ex oppidō prōfugerent
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
- 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!
- At enim te in disciplinam meam tradideras—nam ita dixisti—domum meam ventitaras. Ne tu, si id fecisses, melius famae, melius pudicitiae tuae consuluisses.
References Edit
- ^ 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
Conjunction Edit
ne
- 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
- no (used to show disagreement or negation)
Livonian Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Pronoun Edit
ne
- they; nominative plural of tämā
Luganda Edit
Conjunction Edit
ne
- 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
audio (file)
Romanization Edit
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吶/呐
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呢
ne
- Nonstandard spelling of nē.
- Nonstandard spelling of né.
- Nonstandard spelling of nè.
- 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
- (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
- né (obsolete)
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
ne
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
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
- “ne (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “ne (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “en (V)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page en
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “ne”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
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
- not (negates the accompanying verb)
- Þei ne bileveden hire nought. ― They didn't believe her.
- 13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Knight's Portrait" (line 70), The Canterbury Tales.
- He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde.
- 1481, William Caxton, Lyf of the Noble and Crysten Prynce, Charles the Grete:
- I ne entende but onely to reduce thauncyent ryme in to prose.
- I intend only to reduce the ancient rhyme into prose.
- 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
References Edit
- “ne, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Conjunction Edit
ne
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
References Edit
- “ne, conj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “ne, conj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle French Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Adverb Edit
ne
- 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
- Alternative form of ny (“neither; nor”)
Mohawk Edit
Article Edit
ne
Negerhollands Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Verb Edit
ne
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
- Hyphenation: ne
- Rhymes: -e
Pronoun Edit
ne
- (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
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
- ÁVILA, Marcel Twardowsky (2021) Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, page 564
- NAVARRO, Eduardo de Almeida (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica, 2nd edition, →ISBN, pages 11 and 106
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
- not
- Ez ne kurd im.
- I'm not Kurdish.
Interjection Edit
ne
Northern Ndebele Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.
Adjective Edit
-ne
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
- near m pl
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse nið f, possibly from Proto-Germanic *nidwō (“sinking; downfall”).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
ne n (plural neet)
- 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
- “ne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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
Descendants Edit
- Czech: ne
References Edit
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “ne”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Old English Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”).
Pronunciation Edit
Adverb Edit
ne
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
- (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.
- 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
Old French Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Alternative forms Edit
- nen (poetic, after vowels)
Adverb Edit
ne
- not; used to form negative constructions
Descendants Edit
- French: ne
Etymology 2 Edit
Conjunction Edit
ne
- neither (not one or the other)
- c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
- A lor seignor gaires n’antendent
Ne les serors ne li cinc frere- They didn't listen to their father
Neither the sisters nor the five brothers
- They didn't listen to their father
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
Descendants Edit
- North Frisian:
- Heligoland: ni
Conjunction Edit
ne
Particle Edit
ne
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
Descendants Edit
Pali Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Adjective Edit
ne
- accusative plural masculine of na (“those”)
Pronoun Edit
ne
- accusative plural of na (“them, those”)
Phuthi Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.
Adjective Edit
-ne
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
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Noun Edit
ne
- 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)
- (direct object, first-person plural) us
Related terms Edit
- noi (stressed accusative)
Pronoun Edit
ne (unstressed dative and reflexive form of noi)
- (indirect object) (to) us
Related terms Edit
- nouă (stressed dative)
See also Edit
Saterland Frisian Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Article Edit
ne
- 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
Adverb Edit
ne
- (archaic, rare) Not.
- Ne look at the sky, when ye tread bumpy roads.(A Northern English folk saying)
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- 1513, Gavin Douglas, The Aeneid (translation):
- To suffir exile he said that he ne couth.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1513, Gavin Douglas, The Aeneid (translation):
- I ne ask na land, nor realm.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjunction Edit
ne
- (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
- “ne” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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)
- 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)
- 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
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
Inflection Edit
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Sumerian Edit
Romanization Edit
ne
- Romanization of 𒉈 (ne)
Swazi Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.
Adjective Edit
-ne
Inflection Edit
Adjective concord, tone L | ||
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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)
- (Nueva Ecija, tag question) Sentence-final question marker particle indicating emphasis and asking for confirmation: right?; eh?; isn't it, innit?
Ternate Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Determiner Edit
ne
Pronoun Edit
ne
- (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
- what
- Ne istiyorsun? ― What do you want?
- whatever
- Ne istersen yaparım. ― I will do whatever you want.
Declension Edit
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Definite accusative | neyi | neleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | neye | nelere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | nede | nelerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | neden | nelerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Related terms Edit
Adverb Edit
ne
- what, how, such
- Ne güzel! ― How beautiful!
- Ne güzel bir gün! ― What a beautiful day!
- 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 ...
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
- The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.
See also Edit
- (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze
References Edit
- ^ 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
- past tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb
Unami Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Pronoun Edit
në
- that (inanimate)
See also Edit
Animate | Inanimate | Obviative | |
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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
Further reading Edit
- Terry Crowley, Ura: A Disappearing Language of Southern Vanuatu (1999)
Votic Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Pronoun Edit
ne
- Alternative form of need
Welsh Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
ne
- Nasal mutation of de.
Mutation Edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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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
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
Inflection Edit
Adjective concord, tone L | ||||
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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)
Zou Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
ne
Verb Edit
ne
- (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
Inflection Edit
Adjective concord, tone L | ||||
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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
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “-ne”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-ne”