geen
Afrikaans edit
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Etymology edit
From Dutch geen, from Middle Dutch negeen.
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
geen
Basque edit
Noun edit
geen
Crimean Gothic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *gāną.
Verb edit
geen
- to go
- 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:
- Geen. Ire.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ɣeːn/
- (Northern) IPA(key): [ɣeɪn], [xeɪn], [χeɪn]
- (Southern) IPA(key): [ʝeːn], [xeːn]
Audio (NL): (file) - Hyphenation: geen
- Rhymes: -eːn
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch negeen, ne gene, (also as engheen, en geen), from Old Dutch chein, ghein, nehein (“not one; none”), ultimately corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nehw ainaz (“nor one”). Compare German kein, Yiddish קיין (keyn), English none.
Determiner edit
geen
Usage notes edit
- This determiner could historically be inflected, as visible in forms such as gener (surviving in generlei).
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Dutch gene, from Old Dutch *gēn, from Proto-West Germanic *jain, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Compare German jener.
Adjective edit
geen (not comparable)
- (archaic except in set phrases) yonder, yon, that
- de gene zijde ― the far side (literally, “yonder side”)
- deze en gene ― some people (lit., "this and that [person]")
Declension edit
This word, when used at all, is today usually preceded by a definite article or a demonstrative. Because of this, the uninflected form is very rare in contemporary Dutch.
Declension of geen | ||||
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uninflected | geen | |||
inflected | gene | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | ||||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | gene | ||
n. sing. | geen | |||
plural | gene | |||
definite | gene | |||
partitive |
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Finnish edit
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Noun edit
geen
Wiradjuri edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Central New South Wales *gīñ, cognate with Gamilaraay gii and Ngiyambaa kii.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
geen
References edit
- 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, Vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes
- kīn or gīn heart
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
- Gin—the heart.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1904, R. H. Mathews, The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 34
- Heart .... .... .... gêñ.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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