nier

See also: Nier and nièr

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nir/, [niːr]

• Audio:

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Noun

nier (plural niere)

1. kidney

Danish

Noun

nier c (singular definite nieren, plural indefinite niere)

1. nine (the card rank between eight and ten)

Inflection

Declension of nier

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	nier	nieren	niere	nierene
genitive	niers	nierens	nieres	nierenes

See also

Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text)
es	toer	treer	firer	femmer	sekser	syver
otter	nier	tier	knægt, bonde	dame, dronning	konge	joker

References

• “nier” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch niere, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nir/, [niːr]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: nier
• Rhymes: -ir

Noun

nier f (plural nieren, diminutive niertje n)

1. A kidney.
2. (especially in the diminutive) An animal kidney eaten as a food.

   Ze aten een pastei met niertjes.

   They ate a pasty with kidneys.

Derived terms

• kunstnier
• nierkwaal
• nierontsteking
• niersteen
• niertransplantatie
• nierziekte

Descendants

• Afrikaans: nier
• Negerhollands: nier
• → Papiamentu: nir, nier

Anagrams

• erin, rein

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French noiier (stressed stem ni-), from Latin negāre. Reformed to avoid confusion with noyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nje/, /ni.e/

• Audio:

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Verb

nier

1. to deny

Conjugation

Conjugation of nier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	nier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	niant /njɑ̃/ or /ni.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		nié /nje/ or /ni.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	nie /ni/	nies /ni/	nie /ni/	nions /njɔ̃/ or /ni.ɔ̃/	niez /nje/ or /ni.e/	nient /ni/
	imperfect	niais /njɛ/ or /ni.ɛ/	niais /njɛ/ or /ni.ɛ/	niait /njɛ/ or /ni.ɛ/	niions /ni.jɔ̃/	niiez /ni.je/	niaient /njɛ/ or /ni.ɛ/
	past historic2	niai /nje/ or /ni.e/	nias /nja/ or /ni.a/	nia /nja/ or /ni.a/	niâmes /njam/ or /ni.am/	niâtes /njat/ or /ni.at/	nièrent /njɛʁ/ or /ni.ɛʁ/
	future	nierai /ni.ʁe/ or /ni.ə.ʁe/	nieras /ni.ʁa/ or /ni.ə.ʁa/	niera /ni.ʁa/ or /ni.ə.ʁa/	nierons /ni.ʁɔ̃/ or /ni.ə.ʁɔ̃/	nierez /ni.ʁe/ or /ni.ə.ʁe/	nieront /ni.ʁɔ̃/ or /ni.ə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	nierais /ni.ʁɛ/ or /ni.ə.ʁɛ/	nierais /ni.ʁɛ/ or /ni.ə.ʁɛ/	nierait /ni.ʁɛ/ or /ni.ə.ʁɛ/	nierions /ni.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ni.ə.ʁjɔ̃/	nieriez /ni.ʁje/ or /ni.ə.ʁje/	nieraient /ni.ʁɛ/ or /ni.ə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	nie /ni/	nies /ni/	nie /ni/	niions /ni.jɔ̃/	niiez /ni.je/	nient /ni/
	imperfect2	niasse /njas/ or /ni.as/	niasses /njas/ or /ni.as/	niât /nja/ or /ni.a/	niassions /nja.sjɔ̃/ or /ni.a.sjɔ̃/	niassiez /nja.sje/ or /ni.a.sje/	niassent /njas/ or /ni.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	nie /ni/	—	nions /njɔ̃/ or /ni.ɔ̃/	niez /nje/ or /ni.e/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• dénier

Further reading

• “nier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rein, rien