niks
See also: Niks
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch niks, probably from German nix.
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niks
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nix, nichts.
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niks
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- “niks” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Probably from colloquial and dialectal German nix.[1]
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niks
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- nix (slang, deliberate misspelling)
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niks (used only predicatively, comparative meer niks, superlative meest niks)
- disagreeable, distasteful, not liking
- Ik vind het niks dat ze hier huizen gaan bouwen.
- I don't like that they're going to build houses here.
- uninteresting
- Jij mag deze schilderijen geweldig vinden, maar voor mij is het niks.
- You may think these paintings are great, but they're not interesting for me.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “niets”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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Low German edit
Etymology edit
Compare to German nichts (“nothing”).
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niks
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nichts.
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niks
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niks
References edit
- “niks” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nichts.
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niks
Determiner edit
niks
- (colloquial) no
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niks
Pronoun edit
niks
References edit
- “niks” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “niks”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016