-ve
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See also Appendix:Variations of "ve"
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[edit] English
[edit] Abbreviation
-ve
- (mathematics) negative
[edit] Antonyms
[edit] Hungarian
[edit] Suffix
-ve
- Forms adverbial participles from front vowel verbs. The back vowel version is -va. Its nearest English equivalent is the -ing form functioning as a participle (rather than a noun).
- Késve jött. - He arrived late.
[edit] See also
[edit] Latin
[edit] Etymology
Perhaps from the same root as vel, volo- but compare the Sanskrit va.
[edit] Suffix
-ve
- (always enclitic) or, leaving the choice free between two things or among several
- Telum tormentumve.
- Lubidines iracundiaeve.
- Albus aterve fueris, ignorans.
- Si id facis facturave es.
- Ne quid plus minusve faxit.
- not what more or less he did (??)
- Ne quid plus minusve, quam sit necesse, dicat.
- Duabus tribusve horis.
- Appius ad me ex itinere bis terve litteras miserat.
- Amici regis duo tresve perdivites sunt.
- Cum eam (quercum) tempestas vetustasve consumpserit.
- Alter ambove.
- Alter: aliquis unus pluresve.,
- Ne cui meae longinquitas aetatis obstet mortemve exspectet meam.
- Eho, Mysis, puer hic unde est? Quisve huc attulit?
- Si quando aut regi justo vim populus attulit regnove eum spoliavit, aut.
- Decretumque, ut consules sortirentur conpararentve inter se, uter..
- Quae civitates habent legibus sanctum, si quis quid de re publica a finitimis rumore ac famā acceperit, uti ad magistratum deferat, neve cum quo alio communicet. (or (sc. it is ordered by law) that he shall not, etc.)
- especially in negative sentences, or questions implying a negative sentence is means the same as -que
- (poetic) Repeated or with correlative part (Ve ... ve, either ... or)
- (rare) Ve ... aut (either ... or)

