nə
Azerbaijani
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /næ/
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Etymology 1
From Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”),[1] the only Turkic root beginning with /n/. "The earliest [Proto-Turkic] form must have contained a unique initial nasal (generally nasals were not allowed word-initially), having yielded specific reflexes in modern languages."[1]
Cognate with Bashkir ни (ni, “what”), Chuvash мӗн (mĕn, “what”), Karakhanid [script needed] (nē, “what”), Kazakh не (ne, “what”), Khakas ниме (nime, “what”), Kyrgyz не (ne, “what”), Old Turkic 𐰤𐰀 (ne, “what, which”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ne, “what”), Tatar ни (ni, “what”), Turkish ne (“what”), Turkmen nǟmä (“what”), Tuvan чүү (çüü, “what”), Uyghur نېمە (nëme, “what”), Uzbek na (“what”), Yakut туох (tuoq, “what”).[1]
Pronoun
nə (definite accusative nəyi, plural nələr)
- what
- 2017, Vahid Çəmənli, Hər şey yaxşıya doğru:
- Babam durub oturdu, mən də qaça – qaça onların yanına gəldim ki, görüm, Əyyub dayı nə deyir, babam nə deyir.
- My grandfather sat back down, while I run towards them to see what uncle Əyyub and my grandfather have to say.
- Synonym: (South Azerbaijani) nəmənə
- Bu nə deməkdir?
- What does this mean?
- whatever
- Nə olur olsun!
- Come whatever may!
Declension
The words nə and su (and sometimes mövqe) are the only ones in Azerbaijani to take a y in the singular accusative, genitive, and dative cases, and in the singular possessive forms.
Declension of nə | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | nə |
nələr | ||||||
definite accusative | nəyi |
nələri | ||||||
dative | nəyə |
nələrə | ||||||
locative | nədə |
nələrdə | ||||||
ablative | nədən |
nələrdən | ||||||
definite genitive | nəyin |
nələrin |
Derived terms
Determiner
nə
- what, which
- Görəsən bunlar nə dildə danışırlar?
- I wonder what language they speak?
- Synonym: (South Azerbaijani) nəmənə
See also
English | Azerbaijani |
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what | nə, (dialectal) nəmənə |
who | kim |
which | hansı |
which (in a numbered series) | neçənci |
who (by occupation) | nəçi |
who (by origin) | haralı |
where (which place) | hara, hayan, (colloquial) hanı, (dialectal) həncəri |
where (at which place) | harada, hayanda |
whither (to which place) | hara, haraya, hayana |
whence (from which place) | haradan, hayandan |
when | nə vaxt, nə zaman, haçan, (colloquial) havaxt |
why | niyə, nə üçün, neyçün |
how | necə, nətər, nə təhər, (archaic) nə tövr, nə cür, (dialectal) həncəri |
how much | nə qədər |
how many | neçə |
Etymology 2
From Persian نه (na). Cognate to Old English ne (“not”).
Conjunction
nə
- neither; nor
- 2000, Firidun Ağasıoğlu, Azər xalqı:
- özləri isə nə məğlub, nə də başqasının hakimiyətinə tabe olmuşlar
- while they were neither defeated nor subjugated to foreign rule themselves
Usage notes
- Not used alone but rather as nə...nə..., the way it is used is directly copied from Persian نه...نه...(“neither; nor”). Often used in form of nə + nə də.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*nē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill.
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