ese

See also: Ese, ESE, Eşe, ése, esé, -ese, esė, and êse

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman ese (“ease”), Old French aise.

Noun

ese

1. (obsolete) Ease; pleasure.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125:

     So that the clerkes be nat with me wrothe, / I sey this, that they maked been for bothe, / This is to seye, for office, and for ese / Of engendrure, […]

   • William Langland, Piers Plowman:

     For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,
     It is in cloistre or in scole.

Etymology 2

From Mexican Spanish ese (“dude”).

Noun

ese (plural eses)

1. (US) dude, man. (Usually used vocatively.)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ese in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• ees, see

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Chuukese

Etymology

e- +‎ -se

Pronoun

ese

1. he, she, it does not

Adjective

ese

1. he, she, it is not
2. he, she, it was not

Related terms

		Present and past tense	Negative tense	Future	Negative future	Distant future	Negative determinate
Singular	First person	ua	use	upwe	usap	upwap	ute
	Second person	ka, ke	kose, kese	kopwe, kepwe	kosap, kesap	kopwap, kepwap	kote, kete
	Third person	a	ese	epwe	esap	epwap	ete
Plural	First person	aua (exclusive) sia (inclusive)	ause (exclusive) sise (inclusive)	aupwe (exclusive) sipwe (inclusive)	ausap (exclusive) sisap (inclusive)	aupwap (exclusive) sipwap (inclusive)	aute (exclusive) site (inclusive)
	Second person	oua	ouse	oupwe	ousap	oupwap	oute
	Third person	ra, re	rese	repwe	resap	repwap	rete

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Estonian

Etymology

Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century, but compare Finnish esine.

Noun

ese (genitive eseme, partitive eset)

1. object, thing, item, that

Declension

Inflection of ese (ÕS type 4/ase, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	ese	esemed
accusative	eseme	esemed
genitive	eseme	esemete
partitive	eset	esemeid
illative	esemesse	esemetesse esemeisse
inessive	esemes	esemetes esemeis
elative	esemest	esemetest esemeist
allative	esemele	esemetele esemeile
adessive	esemel	esemetel esemeil
ablative	esemelt	esemetelt esemeilt
translative	esemeks	esemeteks esemeiks
terminative	esemeni	esemeteni
essive	esemena	esemetena
abessive	esemeta	esemeteta
comitative	esemega	esemetega

See also

• asi
• eesmärk
• objekt
• sihitis

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Karitiâna

Noun

ese

1. water

References

• Number and the mass/count distinction in Karitiana

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Latin

Participle

ēse

1. vocative masculine singular of ēsus

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Northern Paiute

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /isi/ or IPA^(key): /iʃi/

Noun

ese

1. light brown-gray

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Pohnpeian

Verb

ese

1. (transitive) to know

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈese/

  • Audio (Spain)

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Etymology 1

Noun

ese f (plural eses)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.

Etymology 2

From Latin ipse.

Adjective

ese m (feminine esa, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas)

1. (demonstrative) that

Interjection

ese

1. (Mexico, informal) hello

Pronoun

ese m (feminine esa, neuter eso, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas, neuter plural esos)

1. (demonstrative) Alternative spelling of ése

Usage notes

• The unaccented form can function as a pronoun if it can be unambiguously deduced as such from context.

See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
first person	singular			yo	me		mí1
	plural	masc.		nosotros	nos		nosotros
		fem.		nosotras			nosotras
second person	singular	tuteo		tú	te		ti1
		voseo		vos			vos
		formal2		usted	le	lo/la3	usted
	plural	familiar4	masc.	vosotros	os		vosotros
			fem.	vosotras			vosotras
		formal/general2		ustedes	les	los/las3	ustedes
third person	singular	masc.		él	le	lo	él
		fem.		ella		la	ella
		neut.		ello5		lo/la3	ello
	plural	masc.		ellos	les	los	ellos
		fem.		ellas		las	ellas
	sing. & pl.	reflexive		—	se		sí1

• Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
  
• If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., "Se lo dije" instead of "Le lo dije")

¹ Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively

² Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity

³ Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to

⁴ Used primarily in Spain

⁵ Used only in rare circumstances

Further reading

• “ese” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.