ri

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Contents 1 Albanian 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Adjective 2 Esperanto 2.1 Pronoun 2.1.1 Usage notes 3 French 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Verb form 4 Japanese 4.1 Noun 5 Lojban 5.1 Cmavo 6 Mandarin 6.1 Pinyin syllable 6.1.1 Usage notes 7 Norwegian 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Verb 8 Portuguese 8.1 Verb form 9 Scottish Gaelic 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Preposition 9.2.1 Usage notes 9.2.2 Derived terms

[edit] Albanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ɾi]

[edit] Adjective

i ri m. (feminine singular e re, masculine plural të rinj, feminine plural të reja)

1. young
2. new

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[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Pronoun

ri (accusative rin)

1. (obsolete) A proposed gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun—he or she

   Ri estas alta. He/she is tall.

[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 xe and sie. (See riism.)

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁi/, SAMPA: /Ri/

[edit] Verb form

ri

1. past participle of rire

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

ri (hiragana り)

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

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[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.

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pinyin syllable

ri

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

[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.

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Etymology

Old Norse ríða

[edit] Verb

ri

1. to ride, as, on a horse

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[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

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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ɾʲi]

[edit] Preposition

ri

1. with
2. 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.
3. 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.)

[edit] Usage notes

• This form is used before nouns without the definite article; before the definite article the form ris is used.

[edit] Derived terms

• còmhla ri
• The following prepositional pronouns:

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