no

no one

There is no water left.

No hot dogs were sold yesterday.

No geese were at the lake.

No two people are the same.

There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)

We'll be finished in no time at all.

Fifty pounds for this is no money, really.

No smoking

There's no stopping her once she gets going.

Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).

My mother's no fool.

Working nine to five every day is no life.

No geese have blue beaks.

Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.

semmi

with uncountable nouns and a negated verb

нет (net) (with the noun in the genitive case)

ninguno

used after or instead of a masculine noun

тыйыла

both take -w infinitive, are placed at end of sentence

𫧃用得

bē-ēng-tit / bōe-ēng-tit / bōe-ēng-leh / bǒe-ēng-lit / bǒe-ēng-tit / bē-iōng-li / bǒe-ěng-tit / bē-ēng-chit / bōe-ēng-chit / bē-ēng-lit / bōe-ēng-lit / bē-ēng-eh / bōe-ēng-eh

ei

generally; followed by saa/voi and an infinitive

לא (lo) (followed by verb with prefix ל)

tilos

followed by the definite article a/az and a verbal noun, or following an infinitive

divieto di

followed by an infinitive or the corresponding noun

No honking from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. — Claxonarea este interzisă între orele 22 şi 6.

yasaktır

preceded by an infinitive or verbal noun

From Middle English no, noo, na, a reduced form of none, noon, nan (“none, not any”) used before consonants (compare a to an), from Old English nān (“none, not any”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“not any”, literally “not one”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + a.
Cognate with Scots nae (“no, not any, none”), Old Frisian nān, nēn ("no, not any, none"), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), North Frisian nian (“no, not any, none”), Old Dutch nēn ("no, not any, none"; > Dutch neen (“no”)), Old Norse neinn (“no, not any, none”). Compare also Old Saxon nigēn ("not any"; > Low German nen), Old Dutch nehēn (Middle Dutch negheen/negeen, Dutch geen), West Frisian gjin, Old High German nihein (> German kein). More at no, one.

gloss

"no, not any, none"; > Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">neen</i> (“no”)

"not any"; > Low German <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds">nen</i>


no

It is a less physical kind of torture, but no less gruesome.

You’re no better than a common thief.

Look no further than one's nose

This is no different from what we've been doing all along.

(with following adjective) Not, not at all.

Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.

This thing is no good.

The teacher’s decision was no fair.

(informal) Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.

I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.

AS the Devil is not so Black as he is Painted, so neither does he appear in so many Shapes as we make for him; we Dress him up in more Suits of Cloaths, and more Masquerade Habits, than ever he wore; and I question much, if he was to see the Pictures and Figures which we call Devil, whether he would know himself by some of them or no.

1725, Daniel Defoe, An essay on the history and reality of apparitions:

(without adjective, now Scotland, informal) Not.

From Middle English no, na, from Old English nā, nō (“no, not, not ever, never”), from Proto-Germanic *nai (“never”), *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne, *nē, *nēy (negative particle), equivalent to Old English ne (“not”) + ā, ever, always. Cognate with Scots na (“no”), Saterland Frisian noa (“no”), West Frisian né (“no”), nea (“never”), Dutch nee (“no”), Low German nee (“no”), German nie (“never”), dialectal German nö (“no”), Danish nej (“no”), Swedish nej (“no”), Icelandic nei (“no”). More at nay.


no

No, you are mistaken.

No, you may not watch television now.

David, no!

Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.

"Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")

Used to show agreement with a negative question.

No, totally.

No, yeah, that's exactly right.

"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!"

(colloquial) Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement.

desc

→ American Sign Language: H^o@Side-PalmForward Flatten


no

Ug no like veggie.

(colloquial, usually humorous) Not, does not, do not, etc.

ní hea.

The verb of the question is repeated in negated form; if there is no verb, then

نَعَم

used to show agreement with a negative question (in some languages this response is the usual word for "yes")

means yes, but used in response to a negative question

ei (usually receives a possessive suffix and often followed by a verb:) en


no

Q: I'll answer any ten questions that call for a yes or a no.

1994, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, “All Good Things...”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episodes 25-26, John de Lancie (actor):

A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval.

The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and two "nos".

A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.


no

Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin numero (“in number, to the number of”).