ne

Ainu ne ruwe ne.

(intransitive, copulative) to be, become


ne

sq-personal pronoun

ne (accusative ne, dative neve, ablative nesh)

ne (accusative)
neve (dative)
nesh (ablative)
ne (first-person nominative plural)
nesh (ablative first-person plural)
ne (accusative first-person plural)
neve (dative first-person plural)
ynë (first-person plural)
yni (first-person plural possessive pronoun)

The nominative-accusative is from accusative Proto-Albanian *nōs, stressed form of clitic Proto-Indo-European *nos, which is continued by the clitic na. Neve and nesh are innovated, but Gheg retains dative nahe (Old Albanian nae) from a genitive *nosōm.


ne

represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun

represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition de

replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition de

head

ne (enclitic, contracted 'n, proclitic en, contracted proclitic n')

'n (contracted)
en (proclitic)
n' (contracted proclitic)

1) Behaves grammatically as plural.2) Behaves grammatically as third person.

3) Only as object of a preposition.4) Not before unstressedi-


ne

Expressing a fraction or a ratio. Preceded by a nominator and followed by the denominator.


ne

inherited from Old Czech ne, from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.


ne

From Latin nec, neque. Compare Italian nè, Spanish, Catalan and French ni, Romanian nici.


ne

ne man

From nen through apocope, itself a contraction of eenen, enen, the now-obsolete accusative form of een.


ne

For she ne dare doo, but to commande.

And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the ne dyed for sorowe / wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge.

1512, Robert Copland, The History of Helyas, Knight of The Swan:

This shold haue bene his skuce at the lest / And it ne had bene but good & honest.

O so incessaunt thow ad in thy desyre / For so that thow thy mynde now mayst haue / Thow ne caryst what thow dost requyre.

For he ne had, nor could increase his line.

In geving me to him whom I ne can, ne may, ne ought to love.

1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet:

Mary (quoth the king) so might me mine, ne haddest thou been Earle Godwine: casting in his dish the murder of his brother Alfred, which was done to death at Elie by the Counsell of Godwine.

1576, William Lambarde, A perambulation of Kent:

Ne durst again his fieri face out-show.

1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

Ioc: How can that be and thou my ioy in warre? Po: Henceforth n'am I your ioy ne yet your sonne.

1587, George Gascoigne, Francis Kinwelmershe, Jocasta:

What happs might chance me I ne knewe.

c. 1590, William Fowler, The Works of William Fowler:

His forces faile, ne can no lenger fight.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

As when a ship, that flyes faire vnder saile, / An hidden rocke escaped hath vnwares, / That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile, / The Marriner yet halfe amazed stares / At perill past, and yet it doubt ne dares / To ioy at his foole-happie ouersight.

And now sweete death most welcome vnto mee, thy stroakes ne can, ne shall me once dismay.

1591, John Phillip, A Commemoration on the Life and Death of the Right Honourable, Sir Christopher Hatton:

And twenty thousand infants that ne wot the right hand from the left.

1592, Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London:

But when he spoke, his plenteous words did flow / Like to thick-falling flakes of winter snow, / Ne any couth his wit so hiely straine.

1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors:

Now, siker ( Wernocke ) thou hast split the marke / Albe that I ne wot I han mis-song: / But, for I am so yong, I dread my warke / Woll be misualued both of old and yong.

1614, John Davies of Hereford, Eclogue Between Young Willy the SInger of His Native Pastorals, and Old Wernocke His Friend:

Whilom in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth, / Who ne in virtue's ways did take delight [...].

1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I, 2:

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Latin nē, Sanskrit न (na), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.


ne

That than I shall not geve therunto faith ne credence, nor therfore put them to any maner ponyssement, before that they or any of them so accused may be at their lawful defence and answer.

1484, Original Letters, King Edward the Fifth, under the direction of his Uncle, to Otes Gilbert, Esq., commanding him to receive Knighthood at the expected Coronation:

And therin is no drede nor bytternes ne expences, but therin is pure recreacyon of body and of soule soo it be donn in clene places.

Be not to hasty ne sodenly vengeable, to poure folke doo no vyolence.

Moreouer no man be so hardy to drynk fastyng cold water, ne after that he hath accompanyed wyth a woman, ne after gret trauayle, ne after exersice tyll he haue fyrst rested hym, ne by nyght namely yf he haue do gloue tofore.

A false tonge wyll euer Imagyne and saye / That neuer by creature was sayd ne thought.

For chastyce can he not by daye ne nyght his wyfe but by his betynge maketh lyght and hote the loue bytwene her and her frende.

1509, Wynkyn de Worde, The fyftene joyes of maryage:

Item, that noo woman nor maide weyve any worsted stamynges ne sayes for that that thei be nott of sufficient powre to werke the said worsteddes as thei owte to be wrought, upon payne of iij s iiij d as often as thei be founde wevyng to be devyded and leuyed in maner and forme aboue expressed.

1511, The Records of the City of Norwich:

That they shulde no lenger kepe ne susteyne Thomas the archebysshope.

1520, Richard Pynson, The Lyfe of The Blessed Martyr Saynte Thomas:

The rote ought to be gadered in the begynnynge of somer and dryed in the sonne bycause [tha]¬t it corrupt ne rotte bycause of the moystnesse[,] & it may be kept two yeres;

For lyinge is a detestable vice, and to be hated of all men, ne to be suffred amonge seruantis ne other persones[,] howe poure estate so euer they be of.

1535, Thomas Elyot, The Education or Bringing up of Children:

Thus some persones beeyng inuited and exhorted to falle to the studie of lettres, make their excuse that thei bee sickely, that thei can not slepe ne take their naturall reste in the nightes.

1542, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegms (translation):

We Moores be not so base of wit, ne yet so blunt of mynd.

1558, Thomas Phaer, The Aeneid (translation):

The deuyll gossyp, ought me a shame / And prayde I am nowe, euerye penye I wolde god he had, be blinde and lame / The daye and houre, he fyrste woed me / Ware not gossyp, these chyldren thre I wolde not tary, ye may be sure / Longer with hym, daye ne houre.

c. 1560, Edward Gosynhill, The Schoolhouse of Women:

Neither extremitie, ne gentle meanes could boote; she hydeth close within her brest, her secret sorowes roote.

1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet:

Ne on her teares or plaint, at all to have remorse, but (if they can not with her will,) to bring the mayde perforce.

His hart encreaseth not thereby ne lesseth as edoon these fooles.

1570, John Thynne, The Debate betweene Pride and Lowlines:

And that no victualer ne other person or persons forestall any kynde of victualls cominge to the said Cyty or within the precyncte of the same before the same victualls be come to the place.

1577, The Hereford Municipal Manuscript:

Ioc: How can that be and thou my ioy in warre? Po: Henceforth n'am I your ioy ne yet your sonne.

1587, George Gascoigne, Francis Kinwelmershe, Jocasta:

But to her cry they list not lenden eare, / Ne ought the more their mightie strokes surceasse.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Whose worth all outward is in shew alone / But inward sent hath not, ne vertue none.

1634, W. Lathum, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

The pang, the curse, with which they died, / Had never pass'd away; / I could not draw my een from theirs / Ne turn them up to pray.

1798, Samuel Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ll. 443-6:


ne

nee

rejectingly, denyingly, with the word no

From French ne, Polish nie, Russian не (ne), etc.


ne

(demonstrative, of things and animals) nominative plural of se: they, those (objects not pointed at by the speaker)

se

(colloquial, dialectal, of people) nominative plural of se: they

From Proto-Finnic *nek, from Proto-Uralic *ne + *-k (dual ending). Compare Erzya не (ńe), неть (ńeť).
The inflectional stem nii- derives from the same stem with the plural infix (-i-), through an older *nij- (< *ne-j-). Compare also se.


ne

Tässä ne kirjat nyt ovat.

nominative plural of se: those (not pointed at by the speaker)

se (nominative singular)
ne (nominative plural)
siellä (singular superessive)
sen (genitive singular)
niiden (genitive plural)
niitten (genitive plural)
sieltä (delative singular)
sitä (partitive singular)
niitä (partitive plural)
sinne (singular sublative)
se (accusative singular)
sen (accusative singular)
ne (accusative plural)
siis (lative singular)
siinä (inessive singular)
niissä (inessive plural)
silloin (singular temporal)
siitä (elative singular)
niistä (elative plural)
siten (causative singular)
siihen (illative singular)
niihin (illative plural)
sillä (adessive singular)
niillä (adessive plural)
siltä (ablative singular)
niiltä (ablative plural)
sille (allative singular)
niille (allative plural)
sinä (essive singular)
niinä (essive plural)
siksi (singular translative)
niiksi (plural translative)
niittä (abessive plural)
niin (instructive plural)
niine (comitative plural)

Kven: net

Meänkieli: net

*) See the usage notes under tuo for the difference between se and tuo


ne

Je ne sais si je dois vous appeler Monsieur ou Mademoiselle […].

I don't know if I should call you Mr or Miss.

Le prince de France nous aime, celui d’Espagne ne cesse de nous secourir.

1826, Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal, section XXXVIII:

The prince of France loves us, that of Spain never stops helping us.

Je n’ose te jurer que je t’aime toujours, parce que je sens bien que tu ne me croirais pas.

I dare not swear that I still love you, for I sense that you would not believe me.

Mais je ne le crois pas : un homme qui trouve naturel de dénoncer des hommes ne peut avoir notre conception de l’humain […].

1943, Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive:

But I don't think so: a man who finds it natural to denounce men cannot have our idea of being human.

L’amour s’en va, et le tien ne saurait durer.

Love goes away, and yours will not be able to last.

(literary) not (used alone to negate a verb; now chiefly with only a few particular verbs: see usage notes)

Je ne sais rien de plus odieux que l’hypocrisie.

I don't know anything more odious than hypocrisy.

Bruno se rendit compte qu’il ne serait jamais accepté par les hippies […].

1998, Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules Élémentaires:

Bruno realised that he'd never be accepted by the hippies.

"Il n’y a pas eu un truc auquel on ne s’attendait pas", affirme Stéphane Le Foll.

"There wasn't anything we weren't expecting," stated Stéphane Le Foll.

not, no (used before a verb, with a coordinating negative element usually following; see Usage Notes, below)

Ah! mes cheveux blanchiront avant que ma tête ne tombe!

1829, Victor Hugo, Le Derner Jour d'un Condamné, section XXVII:

Oh! My hair will go white before my head falls!

Oui, mais je crains qu’elle ne soit plus malade qu’elle ne l’avoue, repartit l’abbé.

"Yes, but I think she might be more ill than she's letting on," the priest replied.

Used in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb (especially when the main verb expresses doubt or fear), to provide extra overtones of doubt or uncertainty (but not negating its verb); the so-called "pleonastic" or "expletive" ne.

Apprendre le français est plus facile qu’on ne pense.

Learning French is easier than you (might) think.

In comparative clauses usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative

From Middle French, from Old French nen or ne preceding words starting in a consonant, from Latin nōn.


ne

Wir müssen da lang, ne?

Du hast keine Geschwister, ne?

(colloquial, regional, Northern Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia) right?; is it?; is it not?; tag question

From Middle High German ne, ni (“not, if not”), from Old High German ne, ni (“no, not, not at all, by no means”), from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”). Also possibly from a contraction of nicht, dialectal net, nit, ni.


ne

(Paderbornisch) nominative/accusative feminine singular of en: a


ne

(Paderbornisch) weak accusative of hei: him


ne

Ne hallgass rá!

Ne felejtsd el! or (more emphatically) El ne felejtsd!

Miért ne? (= Miért ne csináljuk/tegyük?)

Why not? (literally, “Why shouldn't [we do it]?”)

Bár ne tettem volna!

Ne lopj!

don't, should/shall not, stop (doing something)

akinek vaj van a fején, ne menjen a napra


ne

From Esperanto ne, from French ne, Russian не (ne).


ne

Latin script
Appendix:Latin script#English

The name of the Latin script letter N/n.


ne

Miltaisee poolee ne ollaa opettajast?

1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:


ne

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

nevu (definite)
lu nevu (dative genitive)

From Latin nix, nivem, through Proto-Romanian (compare Romanian nea, Aromanian neao), from Proto-Italic *sniks, from Proto-Indo-European *snígʷʰs (“snow”), root noun derived from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).


ne

Si chiuse in casa e non ne uscì per giorni.

(literally, “He locked himself in house, and didn't from there come out for days.”)

He shut himself in the house, and didn't come out for days.

From Latin inde (“thence”). Compare French en (adverb, pronoun).


ne

Furono mesi di lavoro sfibrante, ma ne venne fuori un gran film.

There were months of exhausting work, but a great movie came out of those.

from this; from that; from these; from those, sometimes not translated in English

Ne abbiamo parlato, ma non sono sicuro che abbia capito.

We talked about that, but I'm not sure he understood.

Certo che ricordo quell'evento: ne ho perfino scritto in un articolo.

Of course I remember that event, I even wrote an article about that

about this; about that; about these; about those

Se è avanzata della torta, ne vorrei una fetta, per favore.

(literally, “If is left some cake, of it I would like a slice.”)

If there's some cake left, I would like a slice.

Avevi promesso di tornare a casa, te ne ricordi?

(literally, “You had promised to come back to home, do you of it remember?”)

You promised you'd come back home, do you remember (that)?

of this; of that; of these; of those, sometimes not translated in English

Non ne ho più.

(literally, “I don't of it have any more.”)

of them (sometimes not translated in English)

Ho capito cos'ha fatto, ma non ne ho capito il motivo.

I understood what he did, but I didn't understand the reason for that.

for this; of that; of these; of those, sometimes not translated in English

Spalancò la porta e se ne andò tutta esultante.

She slammed the door open, and left all cheerful.

Se ne sta sdraiato per ore a non fare nulla.

He just stays there lying down for hours, without doing anything.

intensive particle, used in forms of certain verbs suffixed with -ne, where it indicates a particular way of carrying out the verb's action

Non te ne vorrò.

only used in forms of the verb of volerne (“to hold a grudge”)

Ne va della tua vita.

only used in forms of the verb of andarne (“to be at stake”)

with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects

Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects. Unlike the singular forms

the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language

and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead


ne

Massimo Troisi non ha vinto un oscar per la sua interpretazione ne Il postino.

Massimo Troisi did not win an Oscar for his performance in Il Postino.


ne

The hiragana syllable ね (ne) or the katakana syllable ネ (ne) in Hepburn romanization.


ne

Ikit ne.

blend of 3rd person singular possessive/ergative pronoun + 3rd person singular absolutive pronoun


ne

Nokarin ya kaya ne?

(informal) sentence-final particle indicating emotion or mild emphasis

Mako naku ne?

(tag question) sentence-final question marker particle indicating emphasis and asking for confirmation: right?; eh?; isn't it, innit?

Compare Tagalog 'no, Japanese な (na), ね (ne).


ne

Yari ne.

already; now (expresses the event when following a verb)

Meko ne.

already; now (declares the event of action when following a verb in the past tense)

Papunta ne kanu.

already; now (suggests immediate or quick action when following the infinitive form and future tense of the verb)


ne

(North Karelian or dialectal) these, those (medial)

From Proto-Finnic *nek. Cognates include Finnish ne and Estonian need.


ne

še (nominative singular)
ne (nominative plural)
šen (genitive singular)
niijen (genitive plural)
šitä (partitive singular)
niitä (partitive plural)
šiih (illative singular)
niih (illative plural)
šiinä (inessive singular)
niissä (inessive plural)
šiitä (elative singular)
niistä (elative plural)
šillä (adessive singular)
niillä (adessive plural)
šiltä (ablative singular)
niiltä (ablative plural)
šiksi (singular translative)
niiksi (plural translative)
šinä (essive singular)
niinä (essive plural)
niineh (comitative plural)
šiittä (abessive singular)
niittä (abessive plural)
še (nominative singular)
ne (nominative plural)
šen (genitive singular)
niijen (genitive plural)
šidä (partitive singular)
niidä (partitive plural)
šiih (illative singular)
niih (illative plural)
šiinä (inessive singular)
niissä (inessive plural)
šiitä (elative singular)
niistä (elative plural)
šillä (adessive singular)
niillä (adessive plural)
šildä (ablative singular)
niildä (ablative plural)
šiksi (singular translative)
niiksi (plural translative)
šinä (essive singular)
niinä (essive plural)
šiinke (comitative singular)
niinke (comitative plural)
šiittä (abessive singular)
niittä (abessive plural)

the medial determiners are used instead of the distal series.Dialectally

the determiners are used as in North Karelian


ne

ne Crustumini quidem atque Antemnates […] satis se inpigre movent

27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.10

the Crustuminians and Antemnates did not move with enough energy

nē necesse habueris

c. 110 BCE – c. 25 BCE, Cornelius Nepos, On the Latin Historians II. Atticus 16.2.5

nē sīs admīrātus

62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.18.3

nē Apellae quidem dīxeris

62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.25.2

hōc facitō; hōc nē fēceris

thou shalt do this, thou shalt not do that

nē vōs quidem mortem timueritis

c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.98

+ subjunctive, introduces a prohibition or negative command: do not, don’t

Boreā flante, nē arātō, sēmen nē iacitō

c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.334

when the north wind blows, do not plough, do not sow seed

+ future imperative, introduces a prohibition or negative command in general directions serving for all time, as precepts, statutes, and proverbs: do not, don’t

From Old Latin ne (“not”), from Proto-Italic *nē, from the extension of Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”). Cognates include Proto-Germanic *ne (whence Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni) and Old English ne), Sanskrit न (ná), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.


ne

Vereor, nē videātur ōrātiō mea stulta.

nē quem post sē hostem reliqueret

c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.11

in order not to leave any enemy behind himself

sī reliquam partem hiemis ūnō locō legiōnēs continēret, nē stipendiāriīs Aeduōrum expugnātīs cūncta Gallia dēficeret

c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.10

[he feared] lest if he should confine his legions in one place for the remaining part of the winter, all Gaul would revolt when the stipendiaries of the Aedui were subdued

veritus nē noctū ex oppidō prōfugerent

he feared lest [the enemy] should escape by night

that not, in order not to and similar; lest


ne

At enim te in disciplinam meam tradideras—nam ita dixisti—domum meam ventitaras. Ne tu, si id fecisses, melius famae, melius pudicitiae tuae consuluisses.

You had however committed yourself to my instruction and frequented my house, or so you claimed. You would certainly have been more mindful of your virtue and reputation if you had!

truly!, indeed!; only joined with personal pronouns and commonly connected with other affirmative particles

Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme

From Proto-Indo-European *né-h₁ (“that way, so”), which consists of *áno- (“yonder”, pronomial stem, distal) + *-h₁ (modal and instrumental suffix). Cognate with Ancient Greek νή (nḗ, “yes, indeed”) and Proto-Germanic *-nā (emphatic suffix after adverbs) which features in Icelandic svona (“so”), hérna (“here”), and þarna (“there”). The same pronominal stem is also present in the words enim (“for; truly”), nempe (“indeed”), and nam (“for”).


ne

ne tikai

ne visai

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.


ne

no (used to show disagreement or negation)


ne

and (only used if the overall statement is grammatically positive)


ne

From Proto-Otomi [Term?], from Proto-Otomian [Term?], from Proto-Oto-Pamean *neʔ.


ne

From Proto-Otomi *ne, from Proto-Otomian *ne, from Proto-Oto-Pamean *te/*ne, from Proto-Oto-Manguean *(Y)te(H)³.


ne

Dutch: n- (prefix)

From Old Dutch ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.


ne

Þei ne bileveden hire nought.

He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde.

13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Knight's Portrait" (line 70), The Canterbury Tales.

I ne entende but onely to reduce thauncyent ryme in to prose.

1481, William Caxton, Lyf of the Noble and Crysten Prynce, Charles the Grete:

I intend only to reduce the ancient rhyme into prose.

Þou ne art weyke.

English: ne (obsolete)

Scots: ne (obsolete)

From Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.


ne

than (introducing a basis of comparison)

English: ne (obsolete)

Scots: ne (obsolete)


ne

Ha ha pourdieu franc chevalier et preux ne me occisez mie

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 22:

Ha! For the love of God honest and valiant knight, don't kill me!

et ne m'advint oncques de mentir ou asseurer chose que ne feust veritable

It never happened to me to lie or to assure someone of something that wasn't truthful

Catherine de Médicis, ne tarda pas à faire venir auprès de lui, en 1561, sa femme et ses enfants.

1562, Henry IV of France, Lettres Missives:

Catherine of Medicis did not hesitate to bring to him, in 1561, his wife and his children


ne

Ne akanhemu reikú nhaãsé ne kirá reikú.

Aé uputari upitá ne irũmu.

Ne manha uwiké uka pisasú upé.

(second-class) second-person singular personal pronoun (you, your)

From Old Tupi ne. Cognate with Guaraní nde.


ne

Ez ne kurd im.
I'm not Kurdish.

From Proto-Iranian *na, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *na, from Proto-Indo-European *ne. Related to na.


ne

-ne (canonical)
engimune (first-person singular)
ngimune (copulative first-person singular)
omune (second-person singular)
umune (copulative second-person singular)
esibane (first-person plural)
sibane (copulative first-person plural)
elibane (plural second-person)
libane (copulative plural second-person)
omune (class-1)
mune (class-1 copulative)
abane (class-2)
bane (class-2 copulative)
omune (class-3)
mune (class-3 copulative)
emine (class-4)
mine (class-4 copulative)
eline (class-5)
line (class-5 copulative)
amane (class-6)
mane (class-6 copulative)
esine (class-7)
sine (class-7 copulative)
ezine (class-8)
zine (class-8 copulative)
ene (class-9)
ine (class-9 copulative)
ezine (class-10)
zine (class-10 copulative)
olune (class-11)
lune (class-11 copulative)
obune (class-14)
bune (class-14 copulative)
okune (class-15)
kune (class-15 copulative)
okune (class-17)
kune (class-17 copulative)


ne

a lunar phase of an old moon, i.e. period of time in which the moon is waning

From Old Norse nið f, possibly from Proto-Germanic *nidwō (“sinking; downfall”).


ne

Czech: ne

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.


ne

Iċ… hlūde ċirme, healde mīne wīsan, hlēoþre ne mīþe,…

I… loudly cry out, hold my tone, don't hide a sound,…


ne

Þurh þissa þinga ġehāt sind cumene tō anwealde unmenn. Ac hīe lēogaþ, ne ġelǣstaþ hīe þæt ġehāt, ne hīe nǣfre nyllaþ!

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie, they do not fulfill that promise, and they never will!

c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
Sē enġel him cwæþ tō, "Ne cyss þū mīne fēt, ne þū mē ne hrepe."

The angel said to him, "Don't kiss my feet, and don't touch me."

late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy
Nān mann hine ne cann, ne hē nānne mann ne furðum þæt ġeþēode.

No one knows him, and he doesn't know anyone or even the language.

(in negative phrases) or, and not (optionally translated as "nor")

Iċ næbbe ne frīend ne fīend. Wrace iċ hæbbe.

I don't have friends or enemies. I have revenge.

c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice
Neutrum is nāþor cyn, ne werlīces ne wīflīces...

Neuter is neither gender, neither masculine, nor feminine...

ne... ne... is used to mean "[not...] or..." (optionally translated as "neither... nor...")

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Middle English: ne, ny, ni (rare)
English: ne (obsolete)
Scots: ne (obsolete)


ne

not; used to form negative constructions

French: ne


ne

A lor seignor gaires n’antendent
Ne les serors ne li cinc frere

c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

They didn't listen to their father
Neither the sisters nor the five brothers

French: ni


ne

North Frisian:

Heligoland: ni

From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”). Cognates include Old English ne and Old Saxon ne.


ne

Middle Low German: ne, en


ne

Nérúbamo xerecóu

1555, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter X, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, published 1595, page 41v:


ne

accusative plural masculine of na (“those”)


ne

-ne (canonical)
legimune (first-person singular)
gimune (copulative first-person singular)
lomune (second-person singular)
umune (copulative second-person singular)
lesibane (first-person plural)
sibane (copulative first-person plural)
lelibane (plural second-person)
libane (copulative plural second-person)
lamune (class-1)
mhune (class-1 copulative)
labane (class-2)
bhane (class-2 copulative)
lomune (class-3)
mhune (class-3 copulative)
lemine (class-4)
mhine (class-4 copulative)
leline (class-5)
lhine (class-5 copulative)
lamane (class-6)
mhane (class-6 copulative)
lesine (class-7)
ssine (class-7 copulative)
letine (class-8)
ttine (class-8 copulative)
lene (class-9)
yhine (class-9 copulative)
letine (class-10)
ttine (class-10 copulative)
lobune (class-14)
bhune (class-14 copulative)
lokune (class-15)
kkune (class-15 copulative)
lokune (class-17)
kkune (class-17 copulative)


ne

Latvian: ne

Lithuanian: nè

Proto-Slavic: *ne (see there for further descendants)


ne

Celtiberian: ne

desc

Old Irish: na, ná (with vowel lengthened)

Irish: ná

*nīs(t) (“is not”) (from *ne esti; in Insular Celtic coming to mean simply ‘not’)

Proto-Brythonic: *niOld Breton: neMiddle Breton: neBreton: neCornish: nyOld Welsh: niMiddle Welsh: ny


ne

Proto-West Germanic:

desctree

Old English: ne
Middle English: ne, ny, ni (rare)
English: ne (obsolete)
Scots: ne (obsolete)

Old Frisian: ne, ni

Old Saxon: ne, ni
Middle Low German: ne, en

Old Dutch: ne

Middle Dutch: ne
Dutch: n- (prefix)

Old High German: ni, ne
Middle High German: ne
German: nee (dialectal)

Proto-Norse: ᚾᛁ (ni) (unstressed)

Old Norse: ne, né

Gothic: 𐌽𐌹 (ni)


ne

ně-

some but indefinite who; see there for further descendants

Proto-Albanian: *ne uka

Albanian: nuk (not, doesn’t)

Proto-Balto-Slavic: *ne (see there for further descendants)

Proto-Celtic: *ne (see there for further descendants)

Proto-Germanic: *ne, *ni (see there for further descendants)

Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ná (see there for further descendants)

Proto-Italic: *nē (see there for further descendants)


ne

Mezquital Otomi: ne

From Proto-Otomian *ne, from Proto-Oto-Pamean *te/*ne, from Proto-Oto-Manguean *(Y)te(H)³.


ne

Northern Ryukyuan:

Kikai: 荷 (nī)

Northern Amami Ōshima: 荷 (ni)

Okinoerabu: 荷 (nī)

Middle Okinawan: 荷 (NI) (Ryūka Gikyoku)

Kunigami: 荷 (nī)

Okinawan: 荷 (ni)

Southern Amami Ōshima: 荷 (nïï)

Tokunoshima: 荷 (nï)

Yoron: 荷 (nī)

Southern Ryukyuan:

Miyako: 荷 (n, nī)

Yaeyama: 荷 (nī)

Yonaguni: 荷 (nī)

From Proto-Japonic *nəi (“baggage, cargo, load”).


ne

Nenets

Tundra Nenets: не (nye)

Forest Nenets: нē (nē)

Enets

Forest Enets: нэ

Proto-Selkup: *ne

Northern Selkup: нея (njeja)

Southern Selkup:

Tym: нэ (ne)

Ket: нэ (ne)

Nganasan: ны (nɨ)

Kamassian: не (ne)

Koibal: нэ

Mator: нэ


ne

East Slavic:

Old East Slavic: не (ne)

Belarusian: не (nje), ня (nja) (unstressed)

Russian: не (ne)

Carpathian Rusyn: не (ne), нї (nji)

Ukrainian: не (ne)

Old Novgorodian: не (ne)

South Slavic:

Old Church Slavonic:

Old Cyrillic script: не (ne)

Glagolitic script: ⱀⰵ (ne)

Bulgarian: не (ne)

Macedonian: не (ne)

Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: не

Latin: ne

Slovene: nȅ, ne (tonal orthography)

West Slavic:

Old Czech: ne
Czech: ne

desctree

Old Polish: nie
Polish: nie
Silesian: niy, ńy (Steuers Silesian alphabet), nie

Old Slovak: nie

Pannonian Rusyn: нє (nje)

Slovak: nie

Pomeranian:

Kashubian: nié

Slovincian: njê

Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: ně, nje-

Upper Sorbian: ně, nje-


ne

El ne urmează.

head

ne (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of noi)

From Vulgar Latin nīs, from Latin nos. Compare nă (old form) and Aromanian nã.


ne

Ele ne dau cadouri.

ne (unstressed dative and reflexive form of noi)


ne

Dät is n Gous. Ne grieze Gous.

Form of of n used before feminine adjectives


ne

Ne look at the sky, when ye tread bumpy roads.

To suffir exile he said that he ne couth.

1513, Gavin Douglas, The Aeneid (translation):

I ne ask na land, nor realm.

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.


ne

Ne mother, ne father, ne friends, ne foes ne-knew what had worthen of him.


ne

ne znam

on je ne samo darovit, već i jako marljiv

he is not only talented, but also very industrious

htio-ne htio

da ne spavaš? / ne spavaš li? / zar ne spavaš?

ne mogu, a da ne…

reći ne

ne manje nego/od…

ne doći

… Zar ne?

… Aren't you? (Isn't it?, Do you?, Don't you?)

neću

From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.


ne

Jesi li demokrat? Ne!


ne

Ne fu.


ne

no (expresses disapproval, disagreement)

From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.


ne

-ne (canonical)
lengimune (first-person singular)
ngimune (copulative first-person singular)
lomune (second-person singular)
umune (copulative second-person singular)
lesibane (first-person plural)
sibane (copulative first-person plural)
lenibane (plural second-person)
nibane (copulative plural second-person)
lomune (class-1)
mune (class-1 copulative)
labane (class-2)
bane (class-2 copulative)
lomune (class-3)
mune (class-3 copulative)
lemine (class-4)
mine (class-4 copulative)
leline (class-5)
line (class-5 copulative)
lamane (class-6)
mane (class-6 copulative)
lesine (class-7)
sine (class-7 copulative)
letine (class-8)
tine (class-8 copulative)
lene (class-9)
ine (class-9 copulative)
letine (class-10)
tine (class-10 copulative)
lolune (class-11)
lune (class-11 copulative)
lobune (class-14)
bune (class-14 copulative)
lokune (class-15)
kune (class-15 copulative)
lokune (class-17)
kune (class-17 copulative)


ne

Tapos magkikita tayo sa bahay ni Aling Neneng, ne?

Afterwards, we'll see each other at Ms. Neneng's house, am I right?

Maligo ka na, ne?

Sentence-final question marker particle indicating emphasis and asking for confirmation: right?; eh?; isn't it, innit?

Compare Ilocano ne, Kapampangan ne, and Japanese ね (ne).


ne

namo ne


ne

ngori tomau ne

ne foke


ne

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Nepali.


ne

Ne istiyorsun?

Ne istersen yaparım.

ne (nominative singular)
neler (nominative plural)
neyi (accusative definite singular)
neleri (accusative definite plural)
neye (dative singular)
nelere (dative plural)
nede (locative singular)
nelerde (locative plural)
neden (ablative singular)
nelerden (ablative plural)
neyin (genitive singular)
nelerin (genitive plural)
neyim (first-person nominative singular)
nelerim (first-person nominative singular)
neyin (nominative second-person singular)
nelerin (nominative second-person singular)
neyi (nominative singular third-person)
neleri (nominative singular third-person)
neyimiz (first-person nominative plural)
nelerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
neyiniz (nominative plural second-person)
neleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
neleri (nominative plural third-person)
neyimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
nelerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
neyini (accusative definite second-person singular)
nelerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
neyini (accusative definite singular third-person)
nelerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
neyimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
nelerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
neyinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
nelerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
nelerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
neyime (dative first-person singular)
nelerime (dative first-person singular)
neyine (dative second-person singular)
nelerine (dative second-person singular)
neyine (dative singular third-person)
nelerine (dative singular third-person)
neyimize (dative first-person plural)
nelerimize (dative first-person plural)
neyinize (dative plural second-person)
nelerinize (dative plural second-person)
nelerine (dative plural third-person)
neyimde (first-person locative singular)
nelerimde (first-person locative singular)
neyinde (locative second-person singular)
nelerinde (locative second-person singular)
neyinde (locative singular third-person)
nelerinde (locative singular third-person)
neyimizde (first-person locative plural)
nelerimizde (first-person locative plural)
neyinizde (locative plural second-person)
nelerinizde (locative plural second-person)
nelerinde (locative plural third-person)
neyimden (ablative first-person singular)
nelerimden (ablative first-person singular)
neyinden (ablative second-person singular)
nelerinden (ablative second-person singular)
neyinden (ablative singular third-person)
nelerinden (ablative singular third-person)
neyimizden (ablative first-person plural)
nelerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
neyinizden (ablative plural second-person)
nelerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
nelerinden (ablative plural third-person)
neyimin (first-person genitive singular)
nelerimin (first-person genitive singular)
neyinin (genitive second-person singular)
nelerinin (genitive second-person singular)
neyinin (genitive singular third-person)
nelerinin (genitive singular third-person)
neyimizin (first-person genitive plural)
nelerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
neyinizin (genitive plural second-person)
nelerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
nelerinin (genitive plural third-person)
neyim (first-person singular)
nelerim (first-person singular)
nesin (second-person singular)
nelersin (second-person singular)
ne (singular third-person)
nedir (singular third-person)
neler (singular third-person)
nelerdir (singular third-person)
neyiz (first-person plural)
neleriz (first-person plural)
nesiniz (plural second-person)
nelersiniz (plural second-person)
neler (plural third-person)
nelerdir (plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish نه (ne, “what, whatever, how”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ne, “what”), from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”).
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰤𐰀 (n²a /ne/, “what, which”), Karakhanid نا (ne), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ne), Azerbaijani nə, Salar neñ, Bashkir ни (ni), Chuvash мӗн (mĕn) (metathesis < *ne-me), Kazakh не (ne), Khakas ниме (nime), Kyrgyz не (ne), Tatar ни (ni), Turkmen nǟmä, Tuvan чүү (çüü), Uyghur نېمە (nëme), Uzbek nima.


ne

Ne güzel!

Ne güzel bir gün!

Ne osurdun be!

You farted such (that probably the whole world heard it).

Used as an intensifier to express surprise, astonishment, together with expressions like be!, ha!.


ne

Ne bu ne şu

From Ottoman Turkish نه (ne, “neither; nor”), from Persian نه (na). Cognate to Old English ne (“not”).


ne

The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.


ne

past tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb


ne

pala ne ilamo

nudupe de ngeu ne

Likely cognate with Ternate ne (“this”).


ne

-ne (canonical)
endimne (attributive first-person positive singular)
endingemne (attributive first-person negative singular)
ndimne (attributive copulative first-person positive singular)
andimne (attributive copulative first-person negative singular)
omne (attributive positive second-person singular)
ongemne (attributive negative second-person singular)
umne (attributive copulative positive second-person singular)
awumne (attributive copulative negative second-person singular)
esibane (attributive first-person plural positive)
esingebane (attributive first-person negative plural)
sibane (attributive copulative first-person plural positive)
asibane (attributive copulative first-person negative plural)
enibane (attributive plural positive second-person)
eningebane (attributive negative plural second-person)
nibane (attributive copulative plural positive second-person)
anibane (attributive copulative negative plural second-person)
omne (attributive class-1 positive)
ongemne (attributive class-1 negative)
mne (attributive class-1 copulative positive)
akamne (attributive class-1 copulative negative)
abane (attributive class-2 positive)
abangebane (attributive class-2 negative)
bane (attributive class-2 copulative positive)
ababane (attributive class-2 copulative negative)
omne (attributive class-3 positive)
ongemne (attributive class-3 negative)
mne (attributive class-3 copulative positive)
awumne (attributive class-3 copulative negative)
emine (attributive class-4 positive)
engemine (attributive class-4 negative)
mine (attributive class-4 copulative positive)
ayimine (attributive class-4 copulative negative)
eline (attributive class-5 positive)
elingeline (attributive class-5 negative)
line (attributive class-5 copulative positive)
aliline (attributive class-5 copulative negative)
amane (attributive class-6 positive)
angemane (attributive class-6 negative)
mane (attributive class-6 copulative positive)
awamane (attributive class-6 copulative negative)
esine (attributive class-7 positive)
esingesine (attributive class-7 negative)
sine (attributive class-7 copulative positive)
asisine (attributive class-7 copulative negative)
ezine (attributive class-8 positive)
ezingezine (attributive class-8 negative)
zine (attributive class-8 copulative positive)
azizine (attributive class-8 copulative negative)
ene (attributive class-9 positive)
engene (attributive class-9 negative)
ine (attributive class-9 copulative positive)
ayiyine (attributive class-9 copulative negative)
ezine (attributive class-10 positive)
ezingezine (attributive class-10 negative)
zine (attributive class-10 copulative positive)
azizine (attributive class-10 copulative negative)
olune (attributive class-11 positive)
olungelune (attributive class-11 negative)
lune (attributive class-11 copulative positive)
alulune (attributive class-11 copulative negative)
obune (attributive class-14 positive)
obungebune (attributive class-14 negative)
bune (attributive class-14 copulative positive)
abubune (attributive class-14 copulative negative)
okune (attributive class-15 positive)
okungekune (attributive class-15 negative)
kune (attributive class-15 copulative positive)
akukune (attributive class-15 copulative negative)
okune (attributive class-17 positive)
okungekune (attributive class-17 negative)
kune (attributive class-17 copulative positive)
akukune (attributive class-17 copulative negative)


ne

-ne (canonical)
engimune (first-person positive singular)
engingemune (first-person negative singular)
ngimune (copulative first-person positive singular)
angimune (copulative first-person negative singular)
omune (positive second-person singular)
ongemune (negative second-person singular)
umune (copulative positive second-person singular)
awumune (copulative negative second-person singular)
esibane (first-person plural positive)
esingebane (first-person negative plural)
sibane (copulative first-person plural positive)
asibane (copulative first-person negative plural)
enibane (plural positive second-person)
eningebane (negative plural second-person)
nibane (copulative plural positive second-person)
anibane (copulative negative plural second-person)
omune (class-1 positive)
ongemune (class-1 negative)
mune (class-1 copulative positive)
akamune (class-1 copulative negative)
abane (class-2 positive)
abangebane (class-2 negative)
bane (class-2 copulative positive)
ababane (class-2 copulative negative)
omune (class-3 positive)
ongemune (class-3 negative)
mune (class-3 copulative positive)
awumune (class-3 copulative negative)
emine (class-4 positive)
engemine (class-4 negative)
mine (class-4 copulative positive)
ayimine (class-4 copulative negative)
eline (class-5 positive)
elingeline (class-5 negative)
line (class-5 copulative positive)
aliline (class-5 copulative negative)
amane (class-6 positive)
angemane (class-6 negative)
mane (class-6 copulative positive)
awamane (class-6 copulative negative)
esine (class-7 positive)
esingesine (class-7 negative)
sine (class-7 copulative positive)
asisine (class-7 copulative negative)
ezine (class-8 positive)
ezingezine (class-8 negative)
zine (class-8 copulative positive)
azizine (class-8 copulative negative)
ene (class-9 positive)
engene (class-9 negative)
engeyine (class-9 negative)
ine (class-9 copulative positive)
yine (class-9 copulative positive)
ayiyine (class-9 copulative negative)
ezine (class-10 positive)
ezingezine (class-10 negative)
zine (class-10 copulative positive)
azizine (class-10 copulative negative)
olune (class-11 positive)
olungelune (class-11 negative)
lune (class-11 copulative positive)
alulune (class-11 copulative negative)
obune (class-14 positive)
obungebune (class-14 negative)
bune (class-14 copulative positive)
abubune (class-14 copulative negative)
okune (class-15 positive)
okungekune (class-15 negative)
kune (class-15 copulative positive)
akukune (class-15 copulative negative)
okune (class-17 positive)
okungekune (class-17 negative)
kune (class-17 copulative positive)
akukune (class-17 copulative negative)