ne

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ne"

§English

§Etymology

From Old English ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

§Adverb

ne (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Not.
   • 13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     He nevere yet no vilaynie ne sayde.

   • 1512, Robert Copland, The History of Helyas:

     And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the ne dyed for sorowe / wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge.

   • 1812, Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Canto I, 2:

     Whilom in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth, / Who ne in virtue's ways did take delight [...].

§Conjunction

ne

1. (obsolete) Nor.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     But to her cry they list not lenden eare, / Ne ought the more their mightie strokes surceasse.

   • 1798, Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", ll. 443-6:

     The pang, the curse, with which they died, / Had never pass'd away; / I could not draw my een from theirs / Ne turn them up to pray.

§Anagrams

• en

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§Albanian

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nɛ]

§Etymology

The nominative-accusative is from accusative Proto-Albanian *nōs, stressed form of clitic Proto-Indo-European *nos, which is continued by the clitic na. Neve and nesh are innovated, but Gheg retains dative nahe (Old Albanian nae) from a genitive *nosōm.

§Pronoun

ne (accusative ne, dative neve, ablative nesh)

1. we

§Declension

forms of ne

	ne (1st person plural)
nominative	ne
ablative	nesh
	full form	clitic
accusative	ne	na
dative	neve	na
	possessive adjective	possessive pronoun
	ynë	yni

§See also

Albanian personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		unë	ne
2nd person		ti	ju
3rd person	masculine	ai	ata
	feminine	ajo	ato

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§Catalan

§Pronoun

ne (enclitic, contracted 'n, proclitic en, contracted proclitic n')

1. represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun
2. represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition de
3. replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition de
4. replaces the object of a causative verb

§Usage notes

• Ne cannot be used more than once as the object of a given verb.
• While ne is usually used to replace phrases beginning with the prepostion de, adverbial phrases (eg de pressa) are replaced with hi.
• Ne is sometimes used instead of ho to replace an adjective or indefinite noun as the predicate of a verb.
• Ne is sometimes used popularly to add emphasis to a sentence: in this sense, it has no translation in English.

§See also

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi2	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
2nd person	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
2nd person formal4	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person  very formal1	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l’3	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal1	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive		en, n’	-ne, ’n
locative		hi	-hi
1) Behaves grammatically as third person. 2) Only as object of a preposition.			3) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-. 4) Behaves grammatically as second person plural.

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§Czech

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne/

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§Interjection

ne

1. no!

§Particle

ne

1. not

§See also

• ano

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§Dalmatian

§Etymology

From Latin nec, neque. Compare Italian nè, French and Spanish ni, Romanian nici.

§Adverb

ne

1. neither

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§Dutch

§Alternative forms

• nen

§Etymology

From nen through apocope, itself a contraction of eenen, enen, the now-obsolete accusative form of een.

§Pronunciation

• Audio

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§Article

ne

1. (Brabantian) a, an

   ne man

   a man

§Usage notes

ne is used primarily in the dialects that retain the three-gender split. It is only used for masculine words, while een is used for feminine and neuter words.

The form nen is used before vowels (as the English an) and certain consonants (commonly b, d and t), differing from dialect to dialect.

§See also

• den

§Anagrams

• en

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§Esperanto

§Particle

ne

1. no
2. not
3. non-

§Antonyms

• jes

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§Finnish

§Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ne
• Rhymes: -e
• IPA^(key): [ne]

§Pronoun

ne (plural, stem nii-)

1. (demonstrative, of things and animals) they (plural of the pronoun se (“it”))
2. (demonstrative) When used like a definite article, “the” or “those”.

   Tässä ne kirjat nyt ovat. — “This is where those books are now.” (literally, “Here those books now are”)

3. (colloquial, dialectal, of people) they (in literary standard: he).

§Inflection

The case suffixes are mostly regular (except inessive and elative singular). Abessive is never used in singular and extremely seldom in plural. Instructive niin is more or less a theoretical construction, since it has developed into an adverb, and its current meaning cannot be derived from ne.

Declension of ne noun case singular plural adverbial form singular plural nominative se ne superessive siellä – genitive sen niiden niitten delative sieltä – partitive sitä niitä sublative sinne – accusative se, sen ne lative siis – inessive siinä niissä temporal silloin – elative siitä niistä causative siten – illative siihen niihin multiplicative – – adessive sillä niillä distributive – – ablative siltä niiltä temp. dist. – – allative sille niille prolative – – essive sinä niinä situative – – translative siksi niiksi oppositive – – instructive – (niin) abessive – (niittä) comitative – niine

§See also

• tämä
• tuo
• se
• nämä
• nuo

§Anagrams

• en

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§French

Wikipedia

§Etymology

Latin non.

§Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /nə/
• Rhymes: -ə

§Particle

ne

1. (literary) not (used alone to negate a verb; now chiefly with the verbs pouvoir, savoir, cesser and oser)
   • 1713, Voltaire, letter, Dec 1713:

     Je ne sais si je dois vous appeler Monsieur ou Mademoiselle [...].

     I don't know if I should call you Mr or Miss.

   • 1826, Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal, XXXVIII:

     Le prince de France nous aime, celui d'Espagne ne cesse de nous secourir.

     The prince of France loves us, that of Spain never stops helping us.

   • 1868, Emile Zola, Madeleine Férat:

     Je n’ose te jurer que je t'aime toujours, parce que je sens bien que tu ne me croirais pas.

     I dare not swear that I still love you, for I sense that you would not believe me.

   • 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive:

     Mais je ne le crois pas : un homme qui trouve naturel de dénoncer des hommes ne peut avoir notre conception de l'humain [...].

     But I don't think so: a man who finds it natural to denounce men cannot have our idea of being human.

2. not, no (used before a verb, with a subsequent element following; see Usage Notes, below)
   • 1851, Henri Murger, Le pays latin:

     Je ne sais rien de plus odieux que l'hypocrisie.

     I don't know anything more odious than hypocrisy.

   • 1998, Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules Élémentaires:

     Bruno se rendit compte qu'il ne serait jamais accepté par les hippies [...].

     Bruno realised that he'd never be accepted by the hippies.

   • 2012, Le Monde, 3 May 2012:

     "Il n’y a pas eu un truc auquel on ne s'attendait pas", affirme Stéphane Le Foll.

     ‘There wasn't anything we weren't expecting,’ stated Stéphane Le Foll.

3. Used in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb (especially when the main verb expresses doubt or fear), to provide extra overtones of doubt or uncertainty (but not negating its verb); the so-called "pleonastic" or "expletive" ne.
   • 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Derner Jour d'un Condamné, XXVII:

     Ah! mes cheveux blanchiront avant que ma tête ne tombe!

     Oh! My hair will go white before my head falls!

   • 1837, George Sand, Mauprat:

     Oui , mais je crains qu'elle ne soit plus malade qu'elle ne l'avoue, repartit l'abbé.

     ‘Yes, but I think she might be more ill than she's letting on,’ the priest replied.

4. (in comparative clauses usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative)

   apprendre le français est plus facile qu'on ne pense — “learning French is easier than you think”

§Usage notes

• Ne is typically followed by a negative adverbial pas, plus, jamais, guère, or (now literary) point; by a negative pronoun personne or rien; or by a negative determiner, aucun or nul.
• In colloquial French, ne is often omitted: Je le veux pas ‘I don't want it’.
• In literary French, ne can be used alone with certain verbs, as specified above.

§See also

• guère
• jamais
• pas
• personne
• plus
• point
• que
• rien

§Anagrams

• en

§External links

• “ne” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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§German

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nə/

§Etymology 1

§Interjection

ne?

1. (colloquial) no?; is it not?

   Großartig, ne? — “Great, isn’t it?”

§Etymology 2

§Alternative forms

• 'ne

§Article

ne

1. (colloquial) Contraction of eine (“a, an”).

   Willst du 'ne Flasche Bier? — “Would you like a bottle of beer?”

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§Gothic

§Romanization

nē; Romanization of 𐌽𐌴

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§Adverb

ne

1. nay, no

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§Hungarian

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ/

• Audio

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§Adverb

ne

1. don't

   Ne hallgass rá! - Don't listen to him!

§Usage notes

Used before the verb in an imperative clause to negate that clause; ne is always used instead of nem in the imperative mood.

§Derived terms

• (Compound word): nehogy
• (Expressions): ajándék lónak ne nézd a fogát, ne igyál előre a medve bőrére, ne keltsd fel az alvó oroszlánt

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§Ido

§Adverb

ne

1. not

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§Isthmus Zapotec

§Conjunction

ne

1. and

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§Istro-Romanian

§Etymology

From Latin nix, nivem, through Proto-Romanian (compare Romanian nea, Aromanian neao), from Proto-Italic *sniks, from Proto-Indo-European *snígʷʰs (“snow”), root noun derived from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).

§Noun

ne f (definite nevu, genitive/dative lu nevu)

1. snow

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§Italian

§Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e

§Adverb

ne

1. from there

   Ne sono venuto. — “I have come from there.”

§Usage notes

• The pronoun ne replaces di là.

  Sono di Genova; ne sono venuto stamattina. — “I am from Genova; I came from there this morning.”

§Pronoun

ne

1. of it

   Ne ho sentito parlare. — “I have heard talk of it.”

   Cosa ne pensi? — “What do you think of it?”

2. of them (sometimes not translated in English)

   Ce ne sono due. — “There are two (of them).”

§Usage notes

• The pronoun ne stands for di + [pronoun], and so can be a translation of “[preposition] + it/them” for any preposition that is translated as di in Italian.

§Contraction

ne

1. apocopic form of nel

   Massimo Troisi ha vinto un oscar per la sua interpretazione ne "Il postino". — "Massimo Troisi won an Oscar for his performance in "Il Postino".

§Usage notes

Ne is used where nel, nella, etc, would ordinarily be used, but cannot be because the article is part of the title of a film, book, etc.

§See also

• de

§See also

• né

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§Japanese

§Romanization

ne

1. rōmaji reading of ね
2. rōmaji reading of ネ

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§Kurdish

§Interjection

ne

1. no (used to show disagreement or negation)

This Kurdish entry was created from the translations listed at no. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see ne in the Kurdish Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) December 2008

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§Ladin

§Adverb

ne

1. not

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§Latin

§Interjection

nē

1. truly!, indeed!; commonly connected with other affirmative particles

§Conjunction

nē (+ subjunctive)

1. in order not to; lest

§Derived terms

• ne quo (not to any place, no whither)
• ne quis
• ne utiquam

§Adverb

ne

1. (after dummodo) not

§Derived terms

• ne quidem (not even)

§See also

• -ne
• ne-

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§Latvian

§Conjunction

ne

1. not

   ne tikai ― not only

   ne visai ― not quite

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§Lithuanian

§Interjection

ne

1. no (used to show disagreement or negation)

This Lithuanian entry was created from the translations listed at no. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see ne in the Lithuanian Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) October 2009

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§Livonian

§Pronoun

ne

1. plural nominative form of tämā

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§Lojban

§Cmavo

ne

1. non-restrictive version of pe; which is incidentally of/associated with

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§Luganda

§Conjunction

ne

1. and (only used if the overall statement is grammatically positive)

§See also

• na

§References

p. 94, The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967.

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§Mandarin

§Pronunciation

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§Romanization

ne (Zhuyin ㄋㄜ˙)

1. Pinyin transliteration of 呢
2. Pinyin transliteration of 呟
3. Nonstandard spelling of né.
4. Nonstandard spelling of nè.

§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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§Middle English

§Adverb

ne

1. not

§Conjunction

ne

1. nor

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§Negerhollands

§Verb

ne

1. take

§References

• Language Contact in the Danish West Indies (2012, ISBN 900423070X)

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§Old English

§Etymology

Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”)

§Adverb

ne

1. not

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§Old French

§Etymology

From Latin nec.

§Particle

ne

1. not; used to form negative constructions

§Descendants

• French: ne

§Determiner

ne

1. neither (not one or the other)
   • circa 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     A lor seignor gaires n’antendent
     Ne les serors ne li cinc frere

     They didn't listen to their father
     Neither the sisters nor the five brothers

§Descendants

• French: ni

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§Old Saxon

§Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ne.

§Adverb

ne

1. not

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§Romanian

§Etymology

From Latin nīs, from nos.

§Alternative forms

• нє (pre-1860s Cyrillic form)

§Pronoun

ne (accusative, reflexive or unstressed dative form of noi)

1. us

   El ne urmează.

   He's following us.

§See also

• ne-

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§Serbo-Croatian

§Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne/

§Particle

ne (Cyrillic spelling не)

1. not (denoting negation)

   ne znam — I don't know

   on je ne samo darovit, već i jako marljiv — he is not only talented, but also very industrious

   htio-ne htio — whether you want it or not

   da ne spavaš? / ne spavaš li? / zar ne spavaš? — aren't you sleeping?

   ne mogu, a da ne.. — I cannot but...

   reći ne — to say no; refuse, decline

   ne manje nego/od.. — no less than...

   ne doći — to fail to come, not come

   .... Zar ne? — ... Aren't you? (Do you?, Don't you?)

   "neću" — I won't

§Interjection

ne (Cyrillic spelling не)

1. no

   Jesi li demokrat? Ne! — Are you a democrat? No!

§Synonyms

• jok (dialectal)

§Antonyms

• da

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§Slovene

§Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ́/, /nɛ/
• Tonal orthography: nȅ, ne

§Particle

nè

1. not (negates meaning of verb)
2. no (expresses disapproval, disagreement)

§Antonyms

• (no): dà, já

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§Turkish

§Etymology

From Old Turkic ne, from Proto-Turkic.

§Adverb

ne

1. what
2. how (to what extent)

§Declension

declension of ne

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	ne	neler
definite accusative (belirtme)	neyi	neleri
dative (yönelme)	neye	nelere
locative (bulunma)	nede	nelerde
ablative (çıkma)	neden	nelerden
genitive (tamlayan)	nenin	nelerin

§Conjunction

ne

1. neither, nor

§Noun

ne

1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

§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)}

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§Tuvaluan

§Particle

ne

1. past tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

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§Yup'ik

§Noun

ne (absolutive ena)

1. house