inte

See also: inté

Danish

Adverb

inte

1. (dialectal) alternative form of ikke
   • 1926, Adolph Stender, Skovtrold, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     „Naa, og da de ikke fandt dig, gik du saa hjem?“ „Inte li'e stra's — for saa var'et jo, je' traf din Bro'r?“

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Ligurian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiŋte/

Etymology 1

From Latin intus. Cognate with Sicilian nne (“in, inside, by”).

Preposition

inte

1. in, inside

inte + article	Combined form
inte + o	into
inte + a	inta
inte + i	inti
inte + e	inte

Synonyms

• in

Etymology 2

Contraction of inte (“in”) + e f pl (“the”, definite article).

Contraction

inte

1. in the (+ a feminine name in the plural)

Coordinate terms

• inta
• inti
• into

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• inkje
• itte
• intj (syncopated and palatalised form)

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian einki, from eikki with -n- from eingin (< Old Norse enginn, engi). Compare Swedish inte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɪntə/ (Eastern Norway)
• IPA^(key): /²entə/ (parts of Austfold)
• IPA^(key): /²iɲc(e)/ (Trøndelag)

Adverb

inte

1. (dialectal) not, mainly older dialects in Eastern Norway.

   Synonym: inkje

   • 1903, Thoralf Grue, Solør og solungen, page 16:

     ...saa høgger je inte en stok meir i Lystadskogen.

     ...then I shall not chop even one more log in the Lystad woods.

Pipil

Alternative forms

• (shortened) tē
• (Witzapan) tēsu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈteː/

Adverb

intē

1. not

   Ina ka inte kimati

   She/he said she/he doesn't know

   Inte niweli nitekiti yek kwak nimayana

   I can't work well when I'm hungry

Particle

intē

1. no, used to deny or disagree.

   Tikneki chiupi chukulat? — Te, nikwaja wey

   Do you want a piece of chocolate? — No, I already ate a lot

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ænkti, ænti, ingti, from a late form of the nominative neuter of Old Swedish ængin. For an earlier form, see icke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɪntɛ/

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• (Scania) IPA^(key): /²ɛntɛ/
• (Finland, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnt(ː)/, /ˈɪt(ː)/

Adverb

inte (not comparable)

1. not

   Synonyms: (dated or formal except in certain expressions) ej, (dated or formal except in certain expressions) icke

   Jag förstod inte vad du sa. ― I didn't understand what you said. (literally, “I understood not what you said.”)

   Myror är inte stora. ― Ants are not big.

   Hästar är inte växter. ― Horses are not plants.

   – Är inte hästar däggdjur? – Jo, hästar är däggdjur.

   – Aren't horses mammals? – Yes, horses are mammals.

   (literally, “– Are not horses mammals? – Yes, horses are mammals.”)

   Jag gillade inte filmen. ― I didn't like the movie. (literally, “I liked not the movie.”)

   Gillade du inte filmen? ― Didn't you like the movie? (literally, “Liked you not the movie?”)

   Jag såg dig inte. ― I didn't see you. (literally, “I saw you not.”)

   Såg du mig inte? ― Didn't you see me? (literally, “Saw you me not?”)

   Jag såg inte dig, men jag såg Nisse. ― I didn't see you [emphasis], but I saw Nisse. (literally, “I saw not you, but I saw Nisse.”)

   Det är inte torsdag idag. ― It's not Thursday today.

   Imorgon är det inte fredag, utan lördag. ― Tomorrow is not Friday, but Saturday. (literally, “Tomorrow is it not Friday, but Saturday.”) Är moves before det due to V2 word order – no special behavior related to inte here

   Det regnar inte just nu. ― It's not raining right now. (literally, “It rains not right now.”)

   Jag hoppas (att) det inte regnar imorgon. ― I hope it's not raining tomorrow. (literally, “I hope (that) it not rains tomorrow.”) 1) Inte comes before the main verb in subclauses. 2) att (“that”) can be dropped in this case, like that in English.

   Om det inte regnar så kan vi gå på picknick. ― If it doesn't rain, we can go on a picnic. (literally, “If it not rains [så – optionally appears after an initial adverbial] can we go on picnic.”) "Om det inte regnar" is a subclause, so inte comes before regnar, like above.

   Han kan inte simma. ― He can't swim. (literally, “He can not swim.”)

   en man som inte kan simma ― a man who can't swim (literally, “a man that not can swim”) "Som inte kan simma" is a subclause, so inte comes before kan, like above.

   Monstren (som) man inte ser är ofta läskigast.

   The monsters (that) you don't see are often the scariest.

   (literally, “The monsters (that) one not see are often scariest.”)

   1) "(Som) man inte ser" is a subclause, so inte comes before ser, like above. 2) In this example, the subclause might be obscured by som / that being skippable in both Swedish and English (due to the subclause being a relative clause where som / that is not the subject).

   Boken (som) du inte (har) läst är bra. ― The book (that) you haven't read is good. (literally, “The book (that) you not (have) read is good.”) This example is like the previous example, with a strictly unrelated additional twist of har being skippable when implied from supine (läst here).

Usage notes

• Getting the word order wrong with adverbials and subclauses is extremely common among Swedish learners. It rarely causes any problems with comprehension, just sounding a bit off, like "a man who not can swim" does in English (though it is the correct word order in Swedish).
• See also this sense of så, which is good for practicing word order with sentence-initial adverbials (though strictly unrelated to inte).
• The relevant rule for subclauses is called biff-regeln in Swedish (the biff (also literally steak) rule – "I bisats kommer 'inte' före det finita verbet" (In subclauses, "inte" comes before the finite verb)). It also applies to sentence adverbs, like for example alltid (“always”), aldrig (“never”), förmodligen (“probably”), möjligtvis (“possibly”), förhoppningsvis (“hopefully”), lyckligtvis (“fortunately”), fortfarande (“still”), and kanske (“maybe, perhaps”). (The word order for kanske is a bit more flexible in main clauses compared to the other ones.)
• Inte is often shortened to int in speech in Finland Swedish and Norrlandic dialects.

Derived terms

• jag förstår inte (“I don't understand”)

References

• “inte”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “inte”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “inte”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Tocharian B

Conjunction

inte

1. if

Venetan

Alternative forms

• int'
• 'nte

Preposition

inte

1. in

Usage notes

• The alternative forms are used before or after a vowel respectively.