ve

See also Appendix:Variations of "ve", and Appendix:ISO 639-1 language codes

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Old Tosk *vae, from Old Albanian voe (cf. Gheg vo), from Latin ōvum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

Noun

ve f

1. egg

Etymology 2

Vowel shortened from dialectal vē (identical to plural), from dialectal vejë, from Proto-Albanian *widewā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (compare English widow, Latin vidua).

Noun

ve f

1. widow

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Catalan

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

1. The Latin letter V (lowercase v).

Derived terms

• ve baixa
• ve doble

Usage notes

In some dialects of Catalan, the sounds associated with the letter b and the letter v are the same: [β]. In order to differentiate the names be and ve in those dialects, the letters are often called be alta (“high B”) and ve baixa (“low V”).

Verb

ve

1. Third-person singular present indicative form of venir.

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Czech

Pronunciation

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Preposition

ve

1. in

Usage notes

• The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ve/

Interjection

ve

1. alas

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA: [veː]

Noun

ve n (genitive singular ves, plural ve)

1. name of the letter v

Synonyms

• (archaic) vaff, vavv

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Galician

Verb

ve

1. third-person singular present indicative of ver
2. second-person singular imperative of ver

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

ve

1. (to) you

See also

• vi

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Japanese

Romanization

ve

1. See ゔぇ
2. See ヴェ

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Lojban

Cmavo

ve (rafsi vel)

1. exchanges the x₁ sumti with the x₄ sumti of the following word
2. indicates that the object of a preposition fills sumti x₄ of the preposition's corresponding brivla

Related terms

• se
• te
• xe

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Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

ve

1. (Kajkavian) now

Synonyms

• sada

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈʋéː/
• Tonal: vẹ̑

Pronoun

vé

1. you (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)
2. (formal) you (feminine and neuter singular)

Declension

Declension of ve (irregular, suppletive)

singular
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	jàz	tí	—
accusative	méne, me	tébe, te	sébe, se
genitive	méne, me	tébe, te	sébe, se
dative	méni, mi	tébi, ti	sébi, si
locative	méni	tébi	sébi
instrumental	menój, máno	tebój, tábo	sebój, sábo
dual
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	mídva m, médve/mídve f and n	vídva m, védve/vídve f and n	—
accusative	náju	váju	sébe, se
genitive	náju	váju	sébe, se
dative	náma	váma	sébi, si
locative	náju	váju	sébi
instrumental	náma	váma	sebój, sábo
plural
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	mí m, mé f and n	ví m, vé f and n	—
accusative	nàs	vàs	sébe, se
genitive	nàs	vàs	sébe, se
dative	nàm	vàm	sébi, si
locative	nàs	vàs	sébi
instrumental	nàmi	vàmi	sebój, sábo

See also

Slovene personal pronouns

			singular	dual	plural
1st person		m	jaz	midva	mi
		f		medve, midve	me
2nd person	familiar	m	ti	vidva	vi
		f		vedve, vidve	ve
	polite	m	vi	vidva	vi
		f	ve	vedve, vidve	ve
3rd person		m	on	onadva	oni
		f	ona	onedve, onidve	one
		n	ono	onedve, onidve	ona

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Spanish

Verb

ve (infinitive ver)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ver.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ver.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ver.
4. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ir.

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

1. Name of the letter v.

Synonyms

• uve
• ve corta

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.

Interjection

ve

1. woe, pity you!

   ve dig!

   ack och ve!

Noun

ve n

1. woe, misery

   ditt väl och ve

   your weal and woe, your fortune and misery

Declension

Declension of ve

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ve	ve	ve	ve
genitive	ves	ves	ves	ves

Related terms

• veklaga
• veklagan
• vemod
• verop

References

• ve in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• ve in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
• ve in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

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Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic و (wa-).

Conjunction

ve

1. and

Noun

ve

1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

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)}