ve

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• (US) IPA^(key): /vi/
• Homophones: V, v, vee
• Rhymes: -iː

ve (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative ver, possessive adjective vis, possessive noun vers, reflexive verself)

1. (rare, epicene) Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

• E.V., EV, eV, μeV

From Old Tosk *vae, from Old Albanian vōe (still at Malagija),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

• (Gheg): vo
• (Shkodër): vø
• (Arbëresh): vö

ve f (indefinite plural ve, definite singular veja, definite plural vetë)

1. egg

• vezë

• ve fërgesë (“fried egg”)
• ve peshku (“fish roe”)
• ve surbull (“soft-boiled egg”)
• ve llukë (“rotten egg”)

Vowel shortened from dialectal vē (identical to plural), from dialectal vejë, from Proto-Albanian *widewā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (compare English widow, Latin vidua).

• vejë

i ve m (feminine e ve, masculine plural të ve)

1. widowed

ve f (indefinite plural va)

1. widow, widower

• vejanë, vejushë

ve f (plural ves)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.

• ve baixa
• ve doble

In some dialects of Catalan, the sounds associated with the letter b and the letter v are the same: [β]. In order to differentiate the names be and ve in those dialects, the letters are often called be alta (“high B”) and ve baixa (“low V”).

ve

1. third-person singular present indicative form of venir

• IPA^(key): /vɛ/

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ve

1. in

• The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters.

From Old Norse vei, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

• IPA^(key): /veːˀ/, [ˈʋeːˀ]
• Rhymes: -eːˀ

ve (singular definite veen, plural indefinite veer)

1. pain
2. contraction of labour, birth pang

ve

1. water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Borrowed from German weh. Compare also Latin vae.

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• IPA^(key): /ve/
• Hyphenation: ve

ve

1. alas, woe

Ultimately, from Latin vē.

• IPA^(key): /veː/

ve n (genitive singular ves, plural ve)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.

• (archaic) vaff, vavv

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

v^e (plural v^es)

1. Abbreviation of veuve.

ve

1. inflection of ver:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Esperanto ve, from English woe and German weh.

• IPA^(key): /ve/, /vɛ/

ve (plural ve-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

• (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)}

ve

1. alas, oh dear

   Ve! Me obliviis la furnelo acendite!

   Oh dear! I forgot the stove on!

• Rhymes: -e

ve

1. Alternative form of vi (“to you”)

   Ve lo consiglio ― I recommend it (to you)

ve

1. Rōmaji transcription of ゔぇ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ゑ゙
3. Rōmaji transcription of ヴェ
4. Rōmaji transcription of ヹ

ve

1. Alternative form of we

• “we (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

• IPA^(key): /ve/
• Rhymes: -e

ve

1. you (formal or plural, reflexive or dative or accusative)

ve (Cyrillic spelling ве)

1. (Kajkavian) now

• sada

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋéː/
• Tonal orthography: vẹ̑

vé

1. you (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)
2. (formal) you (feminine and neuter singular)

• IPA^(key): /be/
• Homophone: be
• Rhymes: -e

ve

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ver.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ver.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ver.
4. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ir.
5. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of ir.

• The voseo imperative of ir is typically replaced with the imperative of andar, that is andá.[1]

ve f (plural ves)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.

• uve
• ve corta

From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.

• IPA^(key): /veː/
• Homophone: V (the letter)
• Rhymes: -eː

ve

1. woe, pity you!

   ve dig!

   ack och ve!

ve n

1. woe, misery

   ditt väl och ve

   your weal and woe, your fortune and misery

• veklaga
• veklagan
• vemod
• verop

• ve in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• ve in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
• ve in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

From Persian وَ‎ (wa-).

• IPA^(key): /ve/

ve

1. and

ve

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.

• (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

From Middle Vietnamese ue.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧] ~ [jɛ˧˧]
• Homophone: de

(classifier con) ve (蟡)

1. cicada

   Synonym: ve sầu

2. tick

From Old Norse vér, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, plural of *éǵh₂.

• IPA^(key): [ʋéː], [wéː]

  Rhymes: -éː

ve

1. First person plural pronoun; we (singular jig, jeg).

• we
• vä
• wä

ve

1. Alternative form of wä