ke

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ke"

Basque

Noun

ke

1. smoke

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Borôro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰee̥/

Noun

ke

1. bat

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Czech

Pronunciation

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Preposition

ke

1. to
2. toward, towards

Synonyms

• k
• ku

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Esperanto

Etymology

From French, Spanish que (“that”).

Conjunction

ke

1. that

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Finnish

Abbreviation

ke (from keskiviikko)

1. Wednesday

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Guaraní

Noun

ke

1. dream

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French que (“that”). 

Pronoun

ke

1. (relative, object of relative clause) that

Usage notes

• This word is often omitted.

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Hawaiian

Article

ke (definite)

1. the

Usage notes

• Modifies words which begin with the letters 'k', 'a', 'e', and 'o'.

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Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto ke.

Conjunction

ke

1. that

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Indonesian

Preposition

ke

1. to

   Kemarin aku pergi ke rumah teman.

   Yesterday I went to a friend’s home.

See also

• dari

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Italian

Etymology

Shorter, written form of che

Pronoun

ke

1. (informal, often in Internet chat or in SMS messages) who; which; what; that; than

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Japanese

Romanization

ke

1. rōmaji reading of け
2. rōmaji reading of ケ

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Lojban

Cmavo

ke (rafsi kem)

1. start grouping in a tanru (compound word); the group is closed by ke'e

   le pelxu je ke barda finpe ke'e prenu

   “the yellow and large-fish-type of person”, i.e. “the person who is yellow and has got some property of large fishes”

   le sutra ke bunre lorxu cu plipe ga'u le lazni gerku

   The quick brown fox jumps above the lazy dog.

Usage notes

• Compare the first example above to this one:

le pelxu je barda finpe prenu

“the person who has some property of fishes which are large and yellow”

• Compare the second example to this one:

"le sutra bunre lorxu cu plipe ga'u le lazni gerku"

"the swift-kind-of-brown fox jumps above the lazy dog.

• The ke'e is an elidable terminator, which is to say that the ke'e may be elided from the sentence if the parse structure remains the same.

Related terms

• ke'e
• bo

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Malay

Conjunction

ke

1. (informal) or

   Besar ke kecil?

   Big or small?

   Boleh ke tak?

   Can you do it (or not)?

Synonyms

• atau (formal)

Preposition

ke

1. to

   Semalam aku pergi ke rumah kawan.

   Yesterday I went to a friend’s home.

Derived terms

• kepada

Antonyms

• dari

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Mandarin

Romanization

ke

1. Nonstandard spelling of kē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of ké.
3. Nonstandard spelling of kě.
4. Nonstandard spelling of kè.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Mapudungun

Noun

ke (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. liver

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

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Novial

Conjunction

ke

1. that (head of a subordinate noun clause)

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Old French

Pronoun

ke

1. Alternative form of que.

Conjunction

ke

1. Alternative form of que.

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Romani

Conjunction

ke

1. because

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Turkish

Noun

ke

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.

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)}