não

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Aromanian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

não

  1. Alternative form of nãu

Galician[edit]

Adverb[edit]

não

  1. reintegrationist spelling of non

Noun[edit]

não m (plural nãos)

  1. no (a negative answer)

Further reading[edit]

  • não” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • naõ (obsolete)
  • nam (obsolete)
  • nom (nonstandard or eye dialect)
  • num (nonstandard or eye dialect)
  • n (abbreviation)

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese non, from Latin nōn (no), from Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (not) + *óynos (one).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (colloquial, only for the adverb when unstressed) IPA(key): /nũ/
  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: não
  • (file)

Adverb[edit]

não (not comparable)

  1. (preceding verbs or adverbs) not; do not; have not (negates the meaning of the verb or adverb)
    Eu não li esse livro.
    I haven’t read that book.
    Por favor, não faça isso.
    Please, don’t do that.
    1. (preceding verbs) used in sentences containing a negative pronoun as the object; see double negative
      Eu não fiz nada.
      I didn’t do anything.
      (literally, “I didn’t do nothing.”)
    2. (Brazil, colloquial, following verb phrases) used to emphasise or reinforce (in the case that there is a previous unstressed adverb não, see above) sentences containing a negative pronoun as the subject or already containing não
      Ninguém vai ser preso não.
      Nobody is really going to be arrested.
      Não vi o João não.
      I haven’t seen John, no.
    3. (beginning questions) isn't (used to ask whether a person agrees with the proposition, rather than to ask for an unknown fact)
      Não está mau o chá?
      Isn’t the tea bad?
  2. (preceding adjectives, usually hyphenated) non- (forms antonyms of adjectives)
    O sistema é não-escalável.
    The system is non-scalable.
  3. (as a sentence-final parenthesis) isn't it? right? (tag question)
    Ela está aqui, não?
    She is here, right?

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:não.

Derived terms[edit]

Interjection[edit]

não

  1. no (used to show disagreement or negation)
    Synonym: negativo
  2. no (used to show agreement with a negative question)
    Synonym: positivo

Antonyms[edit]

Noun[edit]

não m (plural nãos)

  1. no (a negative answer)
    Antonyms: positivo, sim
    Hoje recebi duas respostas: um sim e um não.
    Today I received two answers: one yes and one no.
    Synonym: negativo

Vietnamese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Sino-Vietnamese word from (brain).

Noun[edit]

(classifier bộ) não

  1. brain, cerebrum
    Synonym: óc
    Bộ não người có nhiều điều chưa lí giải được.
    There are still many unexplained things about the human brain.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Sino-Vietnamese word from (unhappy).

Adjective[edit]

não

  1. (chiefly in set phrases) sad, grieved
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