nj
Translingual
Letter
nj (mixed case Nj, upper case NJ)
See also
- (Latin script): Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Sſs Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
- (Variations of letter J): Ĵĵ Ɉɉ J̌ǰ ȷ ϳ ʝ ɟ ʄ ᴊ Jj IJij IJij LJLjlj LJLjlj NJNjnj NJNjnj
- (Variations of letter N): Ńń Ǹǹ Ňň Ññ Ṅṅ Ņņ Ṇṇ Ṋṋ Ṉṉ N̈n̈ Ɲɲ Ƞƞ ᵰ ᶇ ɳ ȵ ɴ Nn Ŋŋ NJNjnj NJNjnj
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ni/
- Conventional anglicization: ni
Etymology 1
n (“to, for”) + -j (“nisba ending”)
Adjective
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Usage notes
This genitival adjective can be used to express the indirect genitive. In this case, it indicates that the noun preceding it, with which it agrees in gender and number, is possessed by the noun which follows it.
Inflection
Declension of nj (nisba adjective)
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nj
Derived terms
Etymology 2
n (“to, for”) + -j (“adverbializing suffix”).
Adverb
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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nj
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Preposition
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- Variant form (before a noun) of n (“to, for”)
Etymology 4
Cognate to Arabic لَا (lā, “no, not”), Hebrew לֹא (lō, “no, not”), Aramaic לָא (lā, “no, not”).
Particle
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proclitic
- (Old Egyptian) not; negates any sentence
- (Middle and later Egyptian) not; negates a nominal sentence, an adjectival sentence of possession, or the rheme of an emphatic clause (used with js; see Usage Notes below)
- no, not any; negates an individual noun
- not; negates other individual words
Usage notes
- When used alone, nj negates the individual word following it.
- When negating (nonverbal) nominal sentences, adjectival sentences of possession (which start with the genitival adjective n(j)
), and rhemes of emphatic clauses, this particle is typically followed by the first element of the negated clause and then the negative particle js. In Middle Egyptian it cannot negate adjectival sentences which do not indicate possession, nor adverbial sentences, which are instead negated by nn. It also cannot negate verbal sentences that are not emphatic, so the presence of a verb between nj and js always indicates an emphatic clause.
- nj combines with a number of other words to form negative particles with more specialised meanings, for which see the next section.
Derived terms
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, pages 117–118
Fula
Pronunciation
Letter
nj (lower case, upper case Nj)
- A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Usage notes
See also
- (Latin-script letters) karfeeje; ', A a, B b, Mb mb, Ɓ ɓ, C c, D d, Nd nd, Ɗ ɗ, E e, F f, G g, Ng ng, Ɠ ɠ, H h, I i, J j, Nj nj, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ŋ ŋ, Ñ ñ, Ɲ ɲ, O o, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, W w, Y y, Ƴ ƴ
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (uppercase): Nj
Pronunciation
Letter
nj (Cyrillic spelling њ)
- The 20th (digraph) letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by n and followed by o.
Pronoun
nj (Cyrillic spelling њ)
- him (clitic accusative singular of ȏn (“he”))
- it (clitic accusative singular of òno (“it”))
Declension
Inflection of 3rd-person pronouns
Singular | Plural | |||||
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Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
nominative | ȏn | òna | òno | òni | òne | òna |
genitive | njȅga, ga | njȇ, je | njȅga, ga | njȋh, ih | njȋh, ih | njȋh, ih |
dative | njȅmu, mu | njȏj, joj | njȅmu, mu | njȉma, im | njȉma, im | njȉma, im |
accusative | njȅga, ga, nj | njȗ, ju, je | njȅga, ga, nj | njȋh, ih | njȋh, ih | njȋh, ih |
vocative | — | — | — | — | — | — |
locative | njȅm, njȅmu | njȏj | njȅm, njȅmu | njȉma | njȉma | njȉma |
instrumental | njȋm, njíme | njȏm, njóme | njȋm, njíme | njȉma | njȉma | njȉma |
Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual letters
- Latin script characters
- Egyptian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Egyptian terms suffixed with -j
- Egyptian lemmas
- Egyptian adjectives
- Egyptian nisba adjectives
- Egyptian adverbs
- Egyptian prepositions
- Egyptian particles
- Egyptian proclitic particles
- Old Egyptian
- Fula terms with IPA pronunciation
- Fula lemmas
- Fula letters
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian letters
- Serbo-Croatian pronouns