ne-
Cahuilla
Prefix
ne-
- I. First person singular pronoun added to a verb to show its subject.
- My. First person singular possessive pronoun added to a noun to show its possessor.
Chuukese
Prefix
ne-
- to look
Czech
Prefix
- Used to negate verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. "Mám hlad" ("I am hungry") becomes "nemám hlad" ("I am not hungry"). Akin to un-, non-, im-, ir-.
Derived terms
Further reading
Esperanto
Prefix
ne-
- non- (Used to negate some words.)
Derived terms
Related terms
Ido
Etymology
Prefix form of ne.
Pronunciation
Prefix
ne-
Derived terms
Kurdish
Prefix
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- forms the negative subjunctive mood of verbs.
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Latin ne (“not”) in compositions.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ne/, [nɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ne/, [ne]
Prefix
ne-
- absolutely negates the principal meaning
Quotations
"Nōmen nesciō" (N.N.) – I don't know the name, John Doe
Derived terms
Latvian
Etymology
From the same stem as the general negative particle nē (“no”).
Prefix
ne-
- Used on all verb forms to form the negative version of that form (runāju (“I speak”), nerunāju (“I don't speak”)), as well as on nouns and adjectives to indicate negation (like (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin in-, im-; English un-; or Russian не- (ne-)).
Derived terms
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“no, not”). Akin to Old English ne (“not”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
ne-
- not
- neom ― am not
- næs ― was not; nǣron ― were not
- nic ― not me
- nǣniġ ― no one, none, not any, no (adj.)
- nealles ― not at all, by no means
- nefne ― unless, except, not even
- nabban ― to not have
- nāgan ― to not owe, not own
- nǣfre ― never
- nyllan ― to not want, refuse
- ne- + witan (“to know”) → nytan (“to not know”)
- ne- + wāt (“I know”) → nāt (“I do not know”)
- ne- + witen (“known”) → nyten (“ignorant”)
Usage notes
- Often syncopated to n-.
Romanian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 307: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "sla" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. *ne-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
ne-
- un-; de- (attached to past participles, gerundives and some adjectives to negate them)
- necunoscut - unknown
- neînțeles - misunderstood
- neprietenos - unfriendly
- nefolosind - not using, without using
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Prefix
ne- (Cyrillic spelling не-)
- Prefix prepended to adjectives to create an adjective denoting a negative meaning (ne (“not”)). Akin to un-, non-, im-, ir-.
Derived terms
- Cahuilla lemmas
- Cahuilla prefixes
- Chuukese lemmas
- Chuukese prefixes
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto prefixes
- Ido terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ido lemmas
- Ido prefixes
- Latin 1-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin prefixes
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian prefixes
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English prefixes
- Old English terms with usage examples
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian prefixes
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian prefixes