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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adverb 1.3 Conjunction 2 Albanian 2.1 Pronoun 3 Bosnian 3.1 Adverb 4 Croatian 4.1 Adverb 4.1.1 Antonyms 5 Czech 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Interjection 5.3 Particle 5.4 See also 6 Dutch 6.1 Article 6.1.1 Usage notes 7 Esperanto 7.1 Particle 8 Finnish 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Pronoun 8.2.1 Inflection 8.3 See also 8.4 Anagrams 9 French 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Particle 9.3 See also 10 German 10.1 Interjection 10.2 Article 11 Hungarian 11.1 Adverb 12 Ido 12.1 Adverb 13 Isthmus Zapotec 13.1 Conjunction 14 Istro-Romanian 14.1 Noun 15 Italian 15.1 Adverb 15.1.1 Usage notes 15.2 Pronoun 15.2.1 Usage notes 15.3 See also 16 Korean 16.1 Adjective 16.1.1 Derived terms 16.1.2 See also 17 Japanese 17.1 Noun 17.2 Particle 18 Latin 18.1 Conjunction 18.1.1 Derived terms 18.1.2 Usage notes 18.2 Adverb 18.2.1 See also 19 Mandarin 19.1 Pronunciation 19.2 Pinyin 19.3 Pinyin syllable 19.3.1 Usage notes 20 Old English 20.1 Etymology 20.2 Adverb 21 Serbian 21.1 Adverb 21.1.1 Cyrillic spelling 22 Slovene 22.1 Adverb 23 Turkish 23.1 Adverb 24 Yup'ik 24.1 Noun

[ English

[ Etymology

Old English ne, from Germanic, from Indo-European.

[ Adverb

ne (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Not.

[ Conjunction

ne

1. (obsolete) Nor.

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[ Albanian

[ Pronoun

ne

1. we

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[ Bosnian

[ Adverb

ne

1. not, no

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[ Croatian

[ Adverb

ne

1. not, no

[ Antonyms

• da

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[ Czech

[ Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}

[ Interjection

ne

1. no !

[ Particle

ne

1. not

[ See also

• ano

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[ Dutch

[ Article

ne, nen

1. (dialectal, Flemish) a, an

   ne man, correct form is een man — a man

   nen auto, correct form is een auto — a car

[ Usage notes

In Flanders this is commonly used as the dialectal form of een. It is only used for masculine words, while een is still used for feminine and neuter words.

The form nen is used in the same place as "an" is used in English; before a vowel. The same happens for the definite article de which becomes den.

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[ Esperanto

[ Particle

ne

1. no
2. not

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[ Finnish

[ Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ne
• Rhymes: -e
• IPA: [ne]

[ Pronoun

ne (plural, stem nii-)

1. (of things and animals) they. Plural of the pronoun se (“it”).
2. (demonstrative) When used like a definite article, “the” or “those”.

   Tässä ne kirjat nyt ovat. — “Here are the books now.”

3. (colloquial, dialectal, of people) they (in literary standard: he).

[ Inflection

The case suffixes are mostly regular (except inessive and elative singular). Abessive is never used in singular and extremely seldom in plural. Comitative niin is more or less a theoretical construction, since it has developed into an adverb, and its current meaning cannot be derived from ne.

Inflection of ne noun case singular plural adverbial form singular plural nominative se ne superessive siellä – genitive sen niiden niitten delative sieltä – partitive sitä niitä sublative sinne – accusative se, sen ne lative siis – inessive siinä niissä temporal silloin – elative siitä niistä causative siten – illative siihen niihin multiplicative – – adessive sillä niillä distributive – – ablative siltä niiltä temp. dist. – – allative sille niille prolative – – essive sinä niinä situative – – translative siksi niiksi oppositive – – instructive – (niin) abessive – (niittä) comitative – niine

[ See also

• tämä
• tuo
• se
• nämä
• nuo

[ Anagrams

• en

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[ French

[ Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}
• IPA: /nø/
• SAMPA: /n2/

[ Particle

ne

1. (before a verb, with a subsequent negative word) used to form negatives; not, no

   Je ne sais pas — “I do not know.”

   Je ne sais rien — “I know nothing.”

   Je ne sais jamais — “I never know.”

2. (in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb, following a main verb expressing doubt or fear) not (usually not translated into English)

   Pour autant que je ne sache il est toujours là. — “As far as I know he is still there.” (Literally, “For as much as I might not know, he is still there.”)

3. (in grammatically negative comparative clauses that express superlatives) not (usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative)

   le gâteau le plus grand que je n’ai jamais vu — “the biggest cake that I have ever seen” (literally, “the cake bigger than which I have never seen”)

[ See also

• guère
• jamais
• pas
• personne
• plus
• point
• que
• rien

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[ German

[ Interjection

ne?

1. (colloquial) no?; is it not?

   Großartig, ne? — “Great, isn’t it?”

[ Article

’ne

1. (colloquial) shorthand of the female article eine (“an; a”)

   Möchtest du ’ne Flasche Bier? — “Would you like a bottle of beer?”

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[ Hungarian

[ Adverb

ne

1. don't (used before the verb in an imperative clause to negate that clause; ne is always used instead of nem in the imperative mood)

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[ Ido

[ Adverb

ne

1. not

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[ Isthmus Zapotec

[ Conjunction

ne

1. and

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[ Istro-Romanian

[ Noun

ne f. (definite nevu, genitive/dative lu nevu)

1. snow

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[ Italian

[ Adverb

ne

1. from there

   Ne sono venuto. — “I have come from there.”

[ Usage notes

• The pronoun ne replaces di là.

  Sono di Genova; ne sono venuto stamattina. — “I am from Genova; I came from there this morning.”

[ Pronoun

ne

1. of it

   Ne ho sentito parlare. — “I have heard tell of it.”

   Cosa ne pensi? — “What do you think of it?”

2. of them (sometimes not translated in English)

   C’è ne sono due. — “There are two (of them).”

[ Usage notes

• The pronoun ne stands for di + [pronoun], and so can be a translation of “[preposition] + it/them” for any preposition that is translated as di' in Italian.

[ See also

• né

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[ Korean

[ Adjective

ne (hangul: 네)

1. four, quadr-

[ Derived terms

• nemo (네모) rectangle, quadrangle, square

[ See also

• se (세) three, tri-

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[ Japanese

[ Noun

ne (hiragana ね)

1. 根: root

[ Particle

ne (hiragana ね)

1. ね. Sentence-final particle indicating a tag question.

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[ Latin

[ Conjunction

nē (+ subjunctive)

1. in order not to; lest

[ Derived terms

• ne quo (not to any place, no whither)
• ne quis
• ne utiquam

[ Usage notes

Occurs in this sense in expressions in forms like the following:

nē ... quidem — “not even”

[ Adverb

ne

1. (after dummodo) not

[ See also

• -ne

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[ Mandarin

[ Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}

[ Pinyin

ne (form of ne0 or ne5)

1. 呟:
2. 呢: interrogative or emphatic final

[ Pinyin syllable

ne

1. A transliteration of any of a number of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having either of two tones, né or nè.

[ Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[ Old English

[ Etymology

Common Germanic *ne

[ Adverb

ne

1. not

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[ Serbian

[ Adverb

ne

1. not, no

[ Cyrillic spelling

• не

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[ Slovene

[ Adverb

ne

1. not (negates meaning of verb)

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[ Turkish

[ Adverb

ne

1. what

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[ Yup'ik

[ Noun

ne, ena (absolutive case)

1. house