ri

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See also RI, R.I., ri-, , , , and -ri

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[edit] Albanian

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Adjective

i ri m. (feminine e re, m. plural rinj, f. plural reja)

  1. young
  2. new

[edit] Danish

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /riː/, [ʁiːˀ]

[edit] Verb

ri (imperative ri, present rir or rier, past riede, past participle riet)

  1. baste, tack (to sew with wide stitches to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth)

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[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Pronoun

ri (accusative rin)

  1. (obsolete, neologism) they (singular). A proposed gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun.
    Rigardu tiun homon. Ri estas alta.
    Look at that person. They are tall.

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[edit] Usage notes

An experimental and evidently defunct on-line form not actually used in speech, where it interferes with verbs beginning with ri- (ri petas 's/he asks', ripetas 'repeats'). Comparable to English epicene pronouns. (Also see riism.)

Existing alternatives include expanding the use of the demonstrative pronoun tiu (that one), or Zamenhof's suggestion, ĝi.


[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Verb form

ri

  1. past participle of rire

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Syllable

ri

  1. The hiragana syllable  (ri) or the katakana syllable  (ri) in Hepburn romanization.

[edit] Noun

ri (hiragana )

  1. : hiragana letter ri
  2. : katakana letter ri

[edit] Lojban

[edit] Cmavo

ri

  1. (pro-sumti) the most recent sumti
    pu catra le ninmu fa la karl .i ri ca pinfu
    Karl has killed the woman. He is now a prisoner.

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Romanization

ri

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .

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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] Norwegian

[edit] Etymology

Old Norse ríða

[edit] Verb

ri

  1. to ride, as, on a horse

[edit] Portuguese

[edit] Verb form

ri

  1. third-person singular indicative present of rir
  2. first-person singular indicative preterite of rir
  3. second-person singular imperative of rir

[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Preposition

ri

  1. with, to
  2. against
    ris a' ghaoith - against the wind
  3. up
    chaidh iad ris an leathad - they went up the hillside

[edit] Usage notes

  • This form is used before nouns without the definite article; before the definite article the form ris is used:
    ri cat - with a cat
    ris a' chat - with the cat
  • Used before a noun or a verbal noun to mean up to or involved in:
    Bha a' chlann sin ri mì-mhodh. - Those children were up to no good.
  • In the Lewis dialect, ri is used instead of ag or a' before a verbal noun to form present participles:
    Tha mi ri seinn. - I am singing. (As opposed to Tha mi a' seinn, which has the same meaning.)
  • Followed by a prepositional pronoun takes a passive voice meaning:
    Tha na h-eòin tarraingeach rin amharc. - The birds are attractive to watch. (literally "to their watching")

[edit] Derived terms

Combining

pronoun

Prepositional

pronoun

Prepositional

pronoun (emphatic)

mi rium riumsa
tu riut riutsa
e ris ris-san
i rithe rithese
sinn ruinn ruinne
sibh ruibh ruibhse
iad riutha riuthasan
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