"nê" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "af",
        "3": "nè"
      },
      "expansion": "Afrikaans nè",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "af",
        "2": "newaar",
        "3": "",
        "4": "isn't that true?"
      },
      "expansion": "newaar (“isn't that true?”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "af",
        "2": "nie"
      },
      "expansion": "nie",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "af",
        "2": "waar"
      },
      "expansion": "waar",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Afrikaans nè, probably short for newaar (“isn't that true?”), colloquial variant of nie waar.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "nê",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "South African English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, Harold Blore, An Imperial Light Horseman",
          "text": "Then you are not come as a recruit to our ranks, but have already ducked your head to a bullet, nê?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 21",
          "text": "No, we like this place, exotic for us whites, nê.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "As interrogative particle: \"isn't that the case?\"; also used with emphatic effect."
      ],
      "id": "en-nê-en-adv-GLBsBPPi",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(South Africa, colloquial) As interrogative particle: \"isn't that the case?\"; also used with emphatic effect."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "South-Africa",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nê"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "af",
        "3": "nè"
      },
      "expansion": "Afrikaans nè",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "af",
        "2": "newaar",
        "3": "",
        "4": "isn't that true?"
      },
      "expansion": "newaar (“isn't that true?”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "af",
        "2": "nie"
      },
      "expansion": "nie",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "af",
        "2": "waar"
      },
      "expansion": "waar",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Afrikaans nè, probably short for newaar (“isn't that true?”), colloquial variant of nie waar.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "nê",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Afrikaans",
        "English terms spelled with Ê",
        "English terms spelled with ◌̂",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "South African English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, Harold Blore, An Imperial Light Horseman",
          "text": "Then you are not come as a recruit to our ranks, but have already ducked your head to a bullet, nê?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 21",
          "text": "No, we like this place, exotic for us whites, nê.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "As interrogative particle: \"isn't that the case?\"; also used with emphatic effect."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(South Africa, colloquial) As interrogative particle: \"isn't that the case?\"; also used with emphatic effect."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "South-Africa",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nê"
}