né

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

From French

[edit] Adjective

né (not comparable)

  1. (rare, usually italicised) Used to specify the original name of a man.
    Sting, né Gordon Sumner
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[edit] Etymology 2

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Afrikaans

[edit] Particle

né

  1. (South Africa) Not so? hey?
    • “So I saw this girl né, and I wanted to talk to her...”
[edit] Usage notes

The word is a direct import from Afrikaans and is used informally as a marker in conversation.

[edit] Anagrams

[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Latin natus.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Verb

né m. (f née, m plural nés, f plural nées)

  1. Past participle of naître born

[edit] Anagrams

[edit] Icelandic

[edit] Conjunction

né

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

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Isthmus Zapotec

[edit] Preposition

né

  1. with

[edit] Italian

[edit] Etymology

From Latin nec.[1]

[edit] Conjunction

né

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

[edit] References

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

[edit] Jèrriais

[edit] Adjective

né m.

  1. Alternative form of nièr.

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Romanization

né (form of ne2 with diacritic)

  1. 哪: which? where? how?
  2. 那: that, that one, those

[edit] Old French

[edit] Verb

né m. (f née, m plural nés, f plural nées)

  1. Past participle of naistre

[edit] Portuguese

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Contraction

né?

  1. (colloquial) Contraction of não (not) + é (is) (in other words: isn't it, innit), used as a tag question to ask for someone's opinion; comparable to English right.
    Você já comeu, né?
    You have already eaten, right?


[edit] Venetian

[edit] Conjunction

né

  1. neither, nor

[edit] Adverb

né

  1. from
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