niks

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Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch niks, probably from German nix.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /nəks/
  • Audio(file)

Pronoun[edit]

niks

  1. nothing

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nix, nichts.

Pronunciation[edit]

Interjection[edit]

niks

  1. no, no way

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

niks

  1. nothing

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably from colloquial and dialectal German nix.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

niks

  1. nothing

Alternative forms[edit]

  • nix (slang, deliberate misspelling)

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Berbice Creole Dutch: neks
  • Javindo: neks
  • → Guyanese Creole English: nix

Adjective[edit]

niks (used only predicatively, comparative meer niks, superlative meest niks)

  1. disagreeable, distasteful, not liking
    Ik vind het niks dat ze hier huizen gaan bouwen.
    I don't like that they're going to build houses here.
  2. uninteresting
    Jij mag deze schilderijen geweldig vinden, maar voor mij is het niks.
    You may think these paintings are great, but they're not interesting for me.

References[edit]

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “niets”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Anagrams[edit]

Low German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare to German nichts (“nothing”).

Pronoun[edit]

niks

  1. nothing; Alternative form of nix

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nichts.

Pronunciation[edit]

Interjection[edit]

niks

  1. no, no way

Pronoun[edit]

niks

  1. nothing

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nichts.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

niks

  1. no way

Determiner[edit]

niks

  1. (colloquial) no

Interjection[edit]

niks

  1. no, no way

Pronoun[edit]

niks

  1. nothing

References[edit]

  • “niks” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “niks”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

Anagrams[edit]

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