ze

• IPA^(key): /zə/

ze

1. Nonstandard spelling of the (usually signifying a foreign accent, often French or German).
   • 1992, Tristan Jones, Adrift, page 257:

     Then one French-American sous-chef, still in his white kitchen gear, climbed down from the cockpit, where he had been inspecting the cabin, peering inside, murmuring, "wonderfool–wonderfool, ze workmansheep!"

• IPA^(key): /zi/

ze

1. (rare, nonstandard) a Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they, and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
   • 1996 June, Sullivan, Caitlin; Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure‎, New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, LCCN 95072971, OL 820831M, LCC PS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page 10:

     But I do know what sex ze is. It used to influence me. But now I talk to hir like a normal person. I mean, without thinking about what ze is.

   • 1997 December 18, Bornstein, Kate, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, LCCN 98134184, OL 7495768M, LCC HQ1075.B69 1998, page 130:

     A case in point is Tula, a transgendered woman who for years lived well as a model and actress until ze was outed in both national and international media.

   • 2006 March 22, Feinberg, Leslie, Drag King Dreams, New York: Carroll & Graf, →ISBN, LCCN 2006297545, OL 17890120M, LCC PS3556.E427 D73 2006, page 205:

     Ze takes my right hand in hirs and folds it into a fist.

   • 2010 October 12, Lopez, Erika, The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir, Hicken, Jeffrey, San Francisco: Monster Girl Media, →ISBN, LCCN 21010902427, page 143:

     Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n' Fresh Doe.

   • 2011 March 15, Locke, M. J., Up Against It, New York: Tor, →ISBN, LCCN 2010036538, OL 24494916M, LCC PS3612.O249 U7 2011, page 361:

     Hir face was implacable, but ze dashed away in tears.

• The genderqueer community are the primary proponents of ze. One refers to a person with ze and hir or zir typically (a) when their gender is unknown, and one wishes to avoid assuming their gender, or (b) when they are neither male nor female in gender, making he and she (and also either/or terms like s/he or (s)he) inappropriate and potentially hurtful.

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

• hir, hirs, hirself
• zir, zirs, zirself

• other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns

• EZ, Ez.

A Gheg dialect word, of unclear origin.

ze f (indefinite plural ze, definite singular zeja, definite plural zejet)

1. soul

• zemër

From Dutch zee (“sea”).

ze

1. the sea, the ocean

• Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)

From Middle High German si(e) (“they”), merged from Old High German sie m pl, sio f pl, siu n pl, from Proto-Germanic *īz m, *ijôz f, *ijō n, the nominative plural forms of *iz. Cognate with German sie, Dutch zij.

ze

1. (Sette Comuni) they

   Synonym: zandare

• zòi

ze

1. Alternative form of zi (“she”)

• “ze” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

• IPA^(key): /zɛ/

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ze

1. from

This preposition is followed by the genitive case.

• z

• IPA^(key): /zə/

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ze

1. Unstressed form of zij (feminine singular subject)

   Daar zit ze. ― There she is sitting.

2. Unstressed form of zij (plural subject)

   Daar zitten ze. ― There they are sitting.

3. Unstressed form of haar (feminine singular object)

   Ik zie ze. ― I see her.

4. Unstressed form of hen, hun (plural object)

   Ik zie ze. ― I see them.

• In the Netherlands, ze is used as a reduced form of haar chiefly when referring to feminine inanimate things:

Ik wist de waarheid niet en ik wilde ze ook niet weten.

I didn’t know the truth and didn’t wish to know it either.

Even in this case, it is often avoided by using the masculine form hem or, in formal style, the full form haar.

• In Belgium, ze is usual as a reduced form of haar even when referring to persons (as in the example further above).

ze

1. (following an imperative) break a leg, go get 'em, do well, good luck

   Werk ze vanavond!

   Good luck working tonight!

From French les œufs (“the eggs”).

ze

1. egg

• IPA^(key): /ze/, /zɛ/

ze (plural ze-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter Z/z.

• (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)}

ze

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぜ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ゼ

• IPA^(key): /zɛ/

ze

1. Alternative form of z (both meanings; used before sibilants and certain consonant clusters)

   Stej bratš ze sotšu. ― They are brother and sister

   (lit. ‘brother with sister’).

• zu (for the adverb, when stressed)

From Middle High German ze, from Old High German zi, from Proto-Germanic *ta, reduced form of *tō, whence Luxembourgish zu and zou.

• IPA^(key): /tsə/

ze

1. to (with a following infinitive)

   De Kaffi ass ze waarm fir ze drénken.

   The coffee is too hot to drink.

ze

1. too (more than enough, when unstressed)

   De Kaffi ass ze waarm fir ze drénken.

   The coffee is too hot to drink.

ze

1. Nonstandard spelling of zé.
2. Nonstandard spelling of zè.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Old English sǣ.

ze

1. Alternative form of see (“sea”)

• English: sea

• IPA^(key): /zɛ/

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ze

1. Alternative form of z.

ze

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of z.

See z.

• ze in Polish dictionaries at PWN

ze (definite accusative zeyi, plural zeler)

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

• (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

ze (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

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

• IPA^(key): /ʐe˧/

ze

1. near

-ze^?

1. naked

   Synonym: -ntswempu

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

ze

• same

IPA^(key): /zé/

-zé

1. empty
2. naked

• ize
• ubuze

From -za (“to come”).

IPA^(key): /ze/

-ze

1. (auxiliary, in positive) until [+subjunctive]

   Sizolinda baze bafike.

   We will wait until they arrive.

   Sakhuluma waze wafika uthisha.

   We talked until the teacher arrived.

2. (auxiliary, in positive, past) used in exclamations [+subjunctive]

   Waze wamuhle umakoti!

   Oh how beautiful the bride is!

3. (auxiliary, in negative, present) never [+potential]

   Angize ngingadla inyama.

   I never eat meat.

4. (auxiliary, in negative, past) never [+subjunctive]

   Akazange agibele ihhashi.

   He has never ridden a horse.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “-ze”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-ze”