See also: Appendix:Variations of "ne"

English

Etymology 1

From French < Old French < Latin nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (I am born).

Adjective

(not comparable)

  1. (rare, usually italicised) Used to specify the original name of a man.
    Sting, Gordon Sumner

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Afrikaans [Term?].

Particle

  1. (South Africa) Yeah? not so? hey?
    so I saw this girl , and I wanted to talk to her...

Anagrams


French

Etymology 1

From Old French , from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (begotten, produced), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (to beget, give birth).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ne/
  • Rhymes: -e

Verb

 m (feminine singular née, masculine plural nés, feminine plural nées)

  1. past participle of naître

Etymology 2

Hispanic pronunciation.

Particle

  1. Eye dialect spelling of ne.

Anagrams


Hungarian

Etymology

Shorter form of nézd (of the Hungarian verb néz - subjunctive, definite, 2nd person sg.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈneː]
  • (file)

Interjection

  1. look!, see! (expressing surprise or wanting to get attention)

See also


Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse , from Proto-Germanic *nehw.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /njɛː/
  • Rhymes: -ɛː

Conjunction

  1. nor (used with hvorki meaning "neither")
    Ég er hvorki svangur þyrstur.
    I'm neither hungry nor thirsty.
    Maðurinn hennar er hvorki klár hnyttinn.
    Her husband is neither smart nor witty.

Derived terms

  • gera hvorki til né frá
  • geta hvorki hrært legg né lið
  • hvorki fugl né fiskur
  • hvorki fyrr né síðar
  • hvorki tangur né tetur
  • hvorki æmta né skræmta

Isthmus Zapotec

Preposition

  1. with

Italian

Alternative forms

  • (misspelling)

Etymology

From Latin nec.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈne/

Conjunction

  1. nor
  2. neither...nor
  3. either...or

References

  1. Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951; headword

Lashi

Pronoun

  1. your (second possessive pronoun singular)

References


Mandarin

Romanization

(Zhuyin ㄋㄜˊ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of
  2. Pinyin transcription of

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French noi and its variants, from Latin nix, nivem.

Noun

 f (uncountable)

  1. (Jersey) snow
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

 m

  1. Alternative form of nièr

Old French

Etymology

From Latin nātus.

Verb

(oblique and nominative feminine singular nee)

  1. past participle of naistre

Descendants


Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ne (not), from Proto-Indo-European *ne (not). Cognate with Old English ne, Old Frisian ne, ni, Old Saxon ne, ni, Old Dutch ne, Old High German ni, Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni).

Conjunction

  1. nor

Descendants


Portuguese

Etymology

Contraction of não é.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɛ/

Contraction

né?

  1. (colloquial, interrogatory) Contraction of não é. Used as a tag question to ask for someone's opinion: isn't it (so); innit; right
    Você já comeu, ?
    You have already eaten, right?
  2. (colloquial, often interrogatory) Expresses that something is obvious: duh; obviously
    Do que é feito um anel de diamante? De diamantes, né?!
    What a diamond ring is made of? Diamonds, obviously!

Venetian

Conjunction

  1. neither, nor

Adverb

  1. from

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

  1. (colloquial) to avoid; to dodge

Derived terms

Derived terms
  • né tránh
  • tránh né
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