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, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of non (no)

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, ñ (abbreviations)

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]

Descendants[edit]

  • Macanese: nâm

Interjection[edit]

não

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

Noun[edit]

não m (plural nãos)

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

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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