ne

See also Appendix:Variations of "ne"

English

Etymology

From Old English ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Adverb

ne (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Not.
   • 13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     He nevere yet no vilaynie ne sayde.

   • 1512, Robert Copland, The History of Helyas:

     And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the ne dyed for sorowe / wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge.

   • 1812, Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Canto I, 2:

     Whilom in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth, / Who ne in virtue's ways did take delight [...].

Conjunction

ne

1. (obsolete) Nor.
   • 1798, Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", ll. 443-6:

     The pang, the curse, with which they died, / Had never pass'd away; / I could not draw my een from theirs / Ne turn them up to pray.

Anagrams

• en

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Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [nɛ]

Pronoun

ne (accusative ne, dative neve, ablative nesh)

1. we

Declension

forms of ne

	ne (1st person plural)
nominative	ne
ablative	nesh
	full form	clitic
accusative	ne	na
dative	neve	na
	possessive adjective	possessive pronoun
	ynë	yni

See also

Albanian personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		unë	ne
2nd person		ti	ju
3rd person	m.	ai	ata
	f.	ajo	ato

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Catalan

Pronoun

ne (enclitic, contracted 'n, proclitic en, contracted proclitic n')

1. represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun
2. represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition de
3. replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition de
4. replaces the object of a causative verb

Usage notes

• Ne cannot be used more than once as the object of a given verb.
• While ne is usually used to replace phrases beginning with the prepostion de, adverbial phrases (eg de pressa) are replaced with hi.
• Ne is sometimes used instead of ho to replace an adjective or indefinite noun as the predicate of a verb.
• Ne is sometimes used popularly to add emphasis to a sentence: in this sense, it has no translation in English.

See also

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi2	em, m'	-me, 'm	em, m'	-me, 'm	meu
2nd person	tu	et, t'	-te, 't	et, t'	-te, 't	teu
2nd person formal4	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person  very formal1	vostè	el, l'	-lo, 'l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l'	-lo, 'l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l'3	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s'	-se, 's	es, s'	-se, 's	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, 'ns	ens	-nos, 'ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal1	vostès	els	-los, 'ls	els	-los, 'ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, 'ls	els	-los, 'ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, 'ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s'	-se, 's	es, s'	-se, 's	seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive		en, n'	-ne, 'n
locative		hi	-hi
1) Behaves grammatically as third person. 2) Only as object of a preposition.			3) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-. 4) Behaves grammatically as second person plural.

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ne/

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Interjection

ne

1. no!

Particle

ne

1. not

See also

• ano

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• een (standard Dutch)
• nen

Article

ne

1. (dialect, Flemish) a, an

   ne man

   the man

Usage notes

In Flanders this is commonly used as the dialectal form of een. It is only used for masculine words, while een is still used for feminine and neuter words.

The form nen is used before vowels (as the English an) and certain consonants (commonly b, d and t), differing from dialect to dialect. The same happens for the definite article de which becomes den, and sometimes for adjectives as well.

Anagrams

• en

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Esperanto

Particle

ne

1. no
2. not
3. non-

Antonyms

• jes

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ne
• Rhymes: -e
• IPA: [ne]

Pronoun

ne (plural, stem nii-)

1. (of things and animals) they. Plural of the pronoun se (“it”).
2. (demonstrative) When used like a definite article, “the” or “those”.

   Tässä ne kirjat nyt ovat. — “Here are the books now.”

3. (colloquial, dialectal, of people) they (in literary standard: he).

Inflection

The case suffixes are mostly regular (except inessive and elative singular). Abessive is never used in singular and extremely seldom in plural. Instructive niin is more or less a theoretical construction, since it has developed into an adverb, and its current meaning cannot be derived from ne.

Declension of ne noun case singular plural adverbial form singular plural nominative se ne superessive siellä – genitive sen niiden niitten delative sieltä – partitive sitä niitä sublative sinne – accusative se, sen ne lative siis – inessive siinä niissä temporal silloin – elative siitä niistä causative siten – illative siihen niihin multiplicative – – adessive sillä niillä distributive – – ablative siltä niiltä temp. dist. – – allative sille niille prolative – – essive sinä niinä situative – – translative siksi niiksi oppositive – – instructive – (niin) abessive – (niittä) comitative – niine

See also

• tämä
• tuo
• se
• nämä
• nuo

Anagrams

• en

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French

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /nə/, SAMPA: /n@/

Particle

ne

1. (before a verb, with a subsequent negative word) used to form negatives; not, no

   Je ne sais pas — “I do not know.”

   Je ne sais rien — “I know nothing.”

   Je ne sais jamais — “I never know.”

2. (in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb, following a main verb expressing doubt or fear) not (usually not translated into English)

   Pour autant que je ne sache il est toujours là. — “As far as I know he is still there.” (Literally, “For as much as I might not know, he is still there.”)

3. (in grammatically negative comparative clauses that express superlatives) not (usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative)

   le gâteau le plus grand que je n’ai jamais vu — “the biggest cake that I have ever seen” (literally, “the cake bigger than which I have never seen”)

See also

• guère
• jamais
• pas
• personne
• plus
• point
• que
• rien

Anagrams

• en

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nə/

Interjection

ne?

1. (colloquial) no?; is it not?

   Großartig, ne? — “Great, isn’t it?”

Article

ne

1. (colloquial) shorthand of the feminine indefinite article eine (“an; a”)

   Möchtest du ne Flasche Bier? — “Would you like a bottle of beer?”

Alternative forms

• 'ne

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Gothic

Romanization

nē

1. Romanization of 𐌽𐌴

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈnɛ/

Adverb

ne

1. don't

   Ne hallgass rá! - Don't listen to him!

Usage notes

Used before the verb in an imperative clause to negate that clause; ne is always used instead of nem in the imperative mood.

Derived terms

• (Compound word): nehogy
• (Expressions): ajándék lónak ne nézd a fogát, ne igyál előre a medve bőrére, ne keltsd fel az alvó oroszlánt

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Ido

Adverb

ne

1. not

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Isthmus Zapotec

Conjunction

ne

1. and

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Istro-Romanian

Noun

ne f. (definite nevu, genitive/dative lu nevu)

1. snow

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Italian

Adverb

ne

1. from there

   Ne sono venuto. — “I have come from there.”

Usage notes

• The pronoun ne replaces di là.

  Sono di Genova; ne sono venuto stamattina. — “I am from Genova; I came from there this morning.”

Pronoun

ne

1. of it

   Ne ho sentito parlare. — “I have heard talk of it.”

   Cosa ne pensi? — “What do you think of it?”

2. of them (sometimes not translated in English)

   Ce ne sono due. — “There are two (of them).”

Usage notes

• The pronoun ne stands for di + [pronoun], and so can be a translation of “[preposition] + it/them” for any preposition that is translated as di in Italian.

Contraction

ne

1. apocopic form of nel

   Massimo Troisi ha vinto un oscar per la sua interpretazione ne "Il postino". — "Massimo Troisi won an Oscar for his performance in "Il Postino".

Usage notes

Ne is used where nel, nella, etc, would ordinarily be used, but cannot be because the article is part of the title of a film, book, etc.

See also

• de

See also

• né

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Japanese

Syllable

ne

1. The hiragana syllable ね (ne) or the katakana syllable ネ (ne) in Hepburn romanization.

Noun

ne (hiragana ね)

1. 根: root

Particle

ne (hiragana ね)

1. ね. Sentence-final particle indicating a tag question.

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Kurdish

Interjection

ne

1. no (used to show disagreement or negation)

This Kurdish entry was created from the translations listed at no. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see ne in the Kurdish Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) December 2008

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Latin

Conjunction

nē (+ subjunctive)

1. in order not to; lest

Derived terms

• ne quo (not to any place, no whither)
• ne quis
• ne utiquam

Adverb

ne

1. (after dummodo) not

Derived terms

• ne quidem (not even)

See also

• -ne
• ne-

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Lithuanian

Interjection

ne

1. no (used to show disagreement or negation)

This Lithuanian entry was created from the translations listed at no. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see ne in the Lithuanian Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) October 2009

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Lojban

Cmavo

ne

1. non-restrictive version of pe; which is incidentally of/associated with

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Romanization

ne (form of ne0 or ne5)

1. 呟:
2. 呢: interrogative or emphatic final

Romanization

ne

1. Nonstandard spelling of né.
2. Nonstandard spelling of nè.

Usage notes

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

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Middle English

Adverb

ne

1. not

Conjunction

ne

1. nor

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Old English

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”)

Adverb

ne

1. not

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin nec.

Particle

ne

1. not; used to form negative constructions

Descendants

• French: ne

Determiner

ne

1. neither (not one or the other)
   • circa 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     A lor seignor gaires n’antendent
     Ne les serors ne li cinc frere

     They didn't listen to their father
     Neither the sisters nor the five brothers

Descendants

• French: ni

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ne.

Adverb

ne

1. not

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin nīs, from nos.

Alternative forms

• нє (pre-1860s Cyrillic form)

Pronoun

ne (accusative, reflexive or unstressed dative form of noi)

1. us

   El ne urma.

   He's following us.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ne/

Particle

ne (Cyrillic spelling не)

1. not (denoting negation)

   ne znam — I don't know

   on je ne samo darovit, već i jako marljiv — he is not only talented, but also very industrious

   ht(j)eo-ne ht(j)eo — whether you want it or not

   da ne spavaš? — aren't you sleeping?

   ne mogu, a da ne.. — I cannot but...

   reći ne — to say no; refuse, decline

   ne manje nego.. — no less then..

   ne doći — to fail to come, not come

   .... Zar ne? — ... Aren't you? (Do you?, Don't you?)

Interjection

ne (Cyrillic spelling не)

1. no

   Jesi li demokrat(a)? Ne! — Are you a democrat? No!

Synonyms

• jok (dialectal)

Antonyms

• da

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Slovene

Adverb

ne

1. not (negates meaning of verb)

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic ne, from Proto-Turkic.

Adverb

ne

1. what

Noun

ne

1. The name of the Latin script letter N/n.

See also

• (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 ^{(Category: tr:Latin letter names) [edit]}

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Tuvaluan

Marker

ne

1. past tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

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Yup'ik

Noun

ne, ena (absolutive case)

1. house