ne

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old English ne, from Germanic, from Indo-European.

[edit] Adverb

ne (not comparable)

Positive
ne

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)
  1. (obsolete) Not.
  2. (obsolete) Never.

[edit] Conjunction

ne

  1. (obsolete) Nor.

[edit] Albanian

[edit] Pronoun

ne

  1. we

[edit] Bosnian

[edit] Adverb

ne

  1. not, no

[edit] Croatian

[edit] Adverb

ne

  1. not, no

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[edit] Czech

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Interjection

ne

  1. no !

[edit] Particle

ne

  1. not

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Article

ne, nen

  1. (dialectal, Flemish) a, an
    ne man, standard form is een man — a man
    nen auto, standard form is een auto — a car

[edit] 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.

[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Particle

ne

  1. no
  2. not

[edit] Finnish

[edit] Pronunciation

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

[edit] 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).

[edit] Inflection

The case suffixes are mostly regular (except inessive and elative singular). Abessive is never used in singular and extremely seldom in plural. Comitative 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

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] 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”)

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[edit] German

[edit] Interjection

ne?

  1. (colloquial) no?; is it not?
    Großartig, ne? — “Great, isn’t it?”

[edit] Article

’ne

  1. (colloquial) shorthand of the female article eine (“an; a”)
    Möchtest du ’ne Flasche Bier? — “Would you like a bottle of beer?”

[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Adverb

ne

  1. don't (used before the verb in an imperative clause to negate that clause; ne is always used instead of nem in the imperative mood)

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[edit] Ido

[edit] Adverb

ne

  1. not

[edit] Isthmus Zapotec

[edit] Conjunction

ne

  1. and

[edit] Istro-Romanian

[edit] Noun

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

  1. snow

[edit] Italian

[edit] Adverb

ne

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

[edit] 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.”

[edit] Pronoun

ne

  1. of it
    Ne ho sentito parlare. — “I have heard tell 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).”

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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".

[edit] 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.

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

ne (hiragana ね)

  1. 根: root

[edit] Particle

ne (hiragana ね)

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

[edit] Korean

[edit] Adjective

ne (hangul: 네)

  1. four, quadr-

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[edit] Kurdish

[edit] 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

[edit] Latin

[edit] Conjunction

nē (+ subjunctive)

  1. in order not to; lest

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[edit] Adverb

ne

  1. (after dummodo) not

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Pinyin

ne (form of ne0 or ne5)

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

[edit] Pinyin syllable

ne

  1. A transliteration of any of a number of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having either of two tones, né or nè.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

Common Germanic *ne

[edit] Adverb

ne

  1. not

[edit] Serbian

[edit] Adverb

ne

  1. not, no

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[edit] Slovene

[edit] Adverb

ne

  1. not (negates meaning of verb)

[edit] Turkish

[edit] Adverb

ne

  1. what

[edit] Yup'ik

[edit] Noun

ne, ena (absolutive case)

  1. house
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