nier

See also: Nier and nièr

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nir/, [niːr]

• Audio:

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Noun

nier (plural niere)

1. kidney

Danish

Alternative forms

• 9'er

Etymology

From ni (“nine”) +‎ -er.

Noun

nier c (singular definite nieren, plural indefinite niere)

1. nine (the card rank between eight and ten)
2. nine (person or thing that is number nine in a system, e.g.bus #9)

Inflection

Declension of nier

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	nier	nieren	niere	nierne
genitive	niers	nierens	nieres	niernes

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

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch niere, from Old Dutch *nioro, from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nir/, [niːr]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: nier
• Rhymes: -ir

Noun

nier f (plural nieren, diminutive niertje n)

1. a kidney
2. (especially in the diminutive) an animal kidney eaten as a food

   Ze aten een pastei met niertjes.

   They ate a pasty with kidneys.

Derived terms

• kunstnier
• nierkwaal
• nierontsteking
• niersteen
• niertransplantatie
• nierziekte

Descendants

• Afrikaans: nier
• Negerhollands: nier
• → Papiamentu: nir, nier

Anagrams

• erin, rein

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French noiier (stressed stem ni-), from Latin negāre. Reformed to avoid confusion with noyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nje/, /ni.e/

• Audio:

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Verb

nier

1. to deny

Conjugation

Conjugation of nier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	nier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	niant /njɑ̃/ or /ni.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		nié /nje/ or /ni.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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 historic2	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	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	nie /ni/	nies /ni/	nie /ni/	niions /ni.jɔ̃/	niiez /ni.je/	nient /ni/
	imperfect2	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	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	nie /ni/	—	nions /njɔ̃/ or /ni.ɔ̃/	niez /nje/ or /ni.e/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• dénier

Further reading

• “nier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rein, rien