Niue

See also: niue and Niuē

English

Etymology

From Niuean Niuē (“behold the coconut palm”), from niu (coconut) + ē (o (vocative particle)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -uːeɪ

Proper noun

Niue

2. An island in Oceania, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand.

Derived terms

• Niuean

Translations

island of Niue

• Amharic: ኒዌ (niwe)
• Arabic: نِييُوِي (nīyuwī)
• Armenian: Նյուեյ (Nyuey)
• Bashkir: Ниуэ (Niwe)
• Belarusian: Ніу́э m (Niúe)
• Breton: Niue f
• Bulgarian: Ниуе n (Niue)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紐埃／纽埃 (nau² oi¹)

  Mandarin: 紐埃／纽埃 (zh) (Niǔ'āi), 纽埃 (zh) (Niǔ'āi)

  Min Nan: 紐埃／纽埃 (Niú-ai)

• Danish: Niue
• Dhivehi: ނީއު (nīu)
• Dutch: Niue (nl) n
• Esperanto: Niuo
• Estonian: Niue
• Finnish: Niue (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Niuè f
• French: Nioué (fr) f
• Georgian: ნიუე (niue)
• German: Niue (de) n
• Greek: Νιούε (el) n (Nioúe)
• Hindi: निउए (niue)
• Hungarian: Niue (hu)
• Italian: Niue f
• Japanese: ニウエ (ja) (Niue)
• Kazakh: Ниуэ (Niué)
• Korean: 니우에 (Niue)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Niûe

• Kyrgyz: Ниуэ (ky) (Niue)
• Latin: Niue f
• Lithuanian: Niujė f
• Macedonian: Ни́уе n (Níue)
• Malayalam: നിയുവെ (niyuve)
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• Maltese: Nju f
• Marathi: न्युए (nyue)
• Mingrelian: ნიუე (niue)
• Niuean: Niuē
• Norman: Niue f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Niue

  Nynorsk: Niue (nn)

• Ossetian: Ниуэ (Niwè)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Niue
• Polish: Niue (pl) n
• Portuguese: Niue (pt) f
• Pukapukan: Niuē
• Punjabi: ਨਿਊਏ (pa) (niūē)
• Romanian: Niue (ro) n
• Russian: Ниу́э (ru) m (Niúe)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Niyuwe
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нијуе

  Roman: Niue

• Sicilian: Niui f
• Spanish: Niue (es) f
• Swedish: Niue (sv) n
• Tahitian: Niuē
• Tamil: நியுவே (niyuvē)
• Tatar: Ниуэ (Niwe)
• Thai: นีวเว (niiu-wee)
• Tongan: Niuē
• Turkish: Niue (tr)
• Ukrainian: Ніу́е m (Niúe)
• Wallisian: Niue
• Wolof: Niwe

See also

• Countries of the world

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnijuɛ]
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ue
• Rhymes: -ɛ

Proper noun

Niue

1. Niue (a country in Polynesia, Oceania)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Niue	—
accusative	Niuét	—
dative	Niuénak	—
instrumental	Niuéval	—
causal-final	Niuéért	—
translative	Niuévá	—
terminative	Niuéig	—
essive-formal	Niueként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Niuéban	—
superessive	Niuén	—
adessive	Niuénál	—
illative	Niuéba	—
sublative	Niuéra	—
allative	Niuéhoz	—
elative	Niuéból	—
delative	Niuéról	—
ablative	Niuétól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Niuéé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Niuééi	—

Possessive forms of Niue
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Niuém	—
2nd person sing.	Niuéd	—
3rd person sing.	Niuéja	—
1st person plural	Niuénk	—
2nd person plural	Niuétok	—
3rd person plural	Niuéjuk	—

or less commonly

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Niue	—
accusative	Niuét	—
dative	Niuének	—
instrumental	Niuével	—
causal-final	Niuéért	—
translative	Niuévé	—
terminative	Niuéig	—
essive-formal	Niueként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Niuében	—
superessive	Niuén	—
adessive	Niuénél	—
illative	Niuébe	—
sublative	Niuére	—
allative	Niuéhez	—
elative	Niuéből	—
delative	Niuéről	—
ablative	Niuétől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Niuéé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Niuééi	—

Possessive forms of Niue
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Niuém	—
2nd person sing.	Niuéd	—
3rd person sing.	Niuéje	—
1st person plural	Niuénk	—
2nd person plural	Niuétek	—
3rd person plural	Niuéjük	—

Derived terms

• niuei

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Japanese

Romanization

Niue

1. Rōmaji transcription of ニウエ

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈni.u.eː/, [ˈniueː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /niˈu.e/, [niˈuːe]

Proper noun

Niuē f sg (genitive Niuēs); first declension

1. (New Latin) Niue (modern country)

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Niuē
Genitive	Niuēs
Dative	Niuae
Accusative	Niuēn
Ablative	Niuē
Vocative	Niuē
Locative	Niuae

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Niuean

Proper noun

Niue

1. Alternative form of Niuē

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Niue

1. Niue

Derived terms

• niuisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Niue

1. Niue

Derived terms

• niuisk

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Niue f

1. Niue (an island and dependency of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean)

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Swedish

Proper noun

Niue n (genitive Niues)

1. Niue