nier

See also: Nier and nièr

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nier.

Noun

nier (plural niere)

1. kidney

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Danish

Noun

nier c (singular definite nieren, plural indefinite niere)

1. nine (the card rank between eight and ten)

Inflection

Declension of nier

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	nier	nieren	niere	nierene
genitive	niers	nierens	nieres	nierenes

See also

Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text)
es	toer	treer	firer	femmer	sekser	syver
otter	nier	tier	knægt, bonde	dame, dronning	konge	joker

References

• “nier” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ir
• IPA^(key): /nir/, [niːr]

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Noun

nier f (plural nieren, diminutive niertje n)

1. kidney

Anagrams

• erin, rein

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French

Etymology

From Old French noiier (stressed stem ni-), from Latin negāre, present active infinitive of negō. Reformed to avoid confusion with noyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nje/, /ni.e/

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Verb

nier

1. to deny

Conjugation

  Conjugation of nier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		nier			avoir nié
gerund		en niant			en ayant nié
present participle		niant /njɑ̃/ or /ni.ɑ̃/
past participle		nié /nje/ or /ni.e/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	nie /ni/	nies /ni/	nie /ni/	nions /njɔ̃/ or /ni.ɔ̃/	niez /nje/ or /ni.e/	nient /ni/
	imperfect	niais /njɛ/ or /ni.ɛ/	niais /njɛ/ or /ni.ɛ/	niait /njɛ/ or /ni.ɛ/	niions /ni.jɔ̃/	niiez /ni.je/	niaient /njɛ/ or /ni.ɛ/
	past historic1	niai /nje/ or /ni.e/	nias /nja/ or /ni.a/	nia /nja/ or /ni.a/	niâmes /njam/ or /ni.am/	niâtes /njat/ or /ni.at/	nièrent /njɛʁ/ or /ni.ɛʁ/
	future	nierai /ni.ʁe/ or /ni.ə.ʁe/	nieras /ni.ʁa/ or /ni.ə.ʁa/	niera /ni.ʁa/ or /ni.ə.ʁa/	nierons /ni.ʁɔ̃/ or /ni.ə.ʁɔ̃/	nierez /ni.ʁe/ or /ni.ə.ʁe/	nieront /ni.ʁɔ̃/ or /ni.ə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	nierais /ni.ʁɛ/ or /ni.ə.ʁɛ/	nierais /ni.ʁɛ/ or /ni.ə.ʁɛ/	nierait /ni.ʁɛ/ or /ni.ə.ʁɛ/	nierions /ni.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ni.ə.ʁjɔ̃/	nieriez /ni.ʁje/ or /ni.ə.ʁje/	nieraient /ni.ʁɛ/ or /ni.ə.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	nie /ni/	nies /ni/	nie /ni/	niions /ni.jɔ̃/	niiez /ni.je/	nient /ni/
	imperfect1	niasse /njas/ or /ni.as/	niasses /njas/ or /ni.as/	niât /nja/ or /ni.a/	niassions /nja.sjɔ̃/ or /ni.a.sjɔ̃/	niassiez /nja.sje/ or /ni.a.sje/	niassent /njas/ or /ni.as/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	nie /ni/	—	nions /njɔ̃/ or /ni.ɔ̃/	niez /nje/ or /ni.e/	—
1literary tenses

Related terms

• dénier

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rein, rien