"ניגן" meaning in Hebrew

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Verb

Head templates: {{he-verb|pi|dwv=נִגֵּן|sort=נגן|tr=nigén}} ניגן / נִגֵּן • (nigén) (pi'el construction) Inflection templates: {{he-conj|pi|נגן}} Forms: נִגֵּן [canonical], nigén [romanization], no-table-tags [table-tags], לְנַגֵּן [error-unrecognized-form], ניגון [noun-from-verb], נִגּוּן [noun-from-verb], ניגנתי [feminine, first-person, masculine, past, singular], נִגַּנְתִּי [feminine, first-person, masculine, past, singular], ניגנו [feminine, first-person, masculine, past, plural], נִגַּנּוּ [feminine, first-person, masculine, past, plural], ניגנת [masculine, past, second-person, singular], נִגַּנְתָּ [masculine, past, second-person, singular], ניגנת [feminine, past, second-person, singular], נִגַּנְתְּ [feminine, past, second-person, singular], ניגנתם [masculine, past, plural, second-person], נִגַּנְתֶּם [masculine, past, plural, second-person], ניגנתן [feminine, past, plural, second-person], נִגַּנְתֶּן [feminine, past, plural, second-person], ניגן [masculine, past, singular, third-person], נִגֵּן [masculine, past, singular, third-person], ניגנה [feminine, past, singular, third-person], נִגְּנָה [feminine, past, singular, third-person], ניגנו [feminine, masculine, past, plural, third-person], נִגְּנוּ [feminine, masculine, past, plural, third-person], מְנַגֵּן [masculine, present, singular], מְנַגֶּנֶת [feminine, present, singular], מְנַגְּנִים [masculine, plural, present], מְנַגְּנוֹת [feminine, plural, present], אֲנַגֵּן [feminine, first-person, future, masculine, singular], נְנַגֵּן [feminine, first-person, future, masculine, plural], תְּנַגֵּן [future, masculine, second-person, singular], תְּנַגְּנִי [feminine, future, second-person, singular], תְּנַגְּנוּ [future, masculine, plural, second-person], תְּנַגֵּנָּה [feminine, future, plural, second-person], יְנַגֵּן [future, masculine, singular, third-person], תְּנַגֵּן [feminine, future, singular, third-person], יְנַגְּנוּ [future, masculine, plural, third-person], תְּנַגֵּנָּה [feminine, future, plural, third-person], נַגֵּן [imperative, masculine, singular], נַגְּנִי [feminine, imperative, singular], נַגְּנוּ [imperative, masculine, plural], נַגֵּנָּה [feminine, imperative, plural]
  1. To play (music), to play music. Tags: construction-pi'el
    Sense id: en-ניגן-he-verb-V9lKudZf Categories (other): Hebrew entries with incorrect language header, Hebrew links with redundant alt parameters, Hebrew terms belonging to the root נ־ג־ן, Hebrew terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "נִגֵּן",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nigén",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "he-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "לְנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגון",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגּוּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנתי",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנְתִּי",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנו",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנּוּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנת",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנְתָּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנת",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנְתְּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנתם",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנְתֶּם",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנתן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנְתֶּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנה",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגְּנָה",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנו",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגְּנוּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "מְנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "מְנַגֶּנֶת",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "מְנַגְּנִים",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "מְנַגְּנוֹת",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "אֲנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נְנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגְּנִי",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "future",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגְּנוּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגֵּנָּה",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "future",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "יְנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "future",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "יְנַגְּנוּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגֵּנָּה",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "future",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נַגְּנִי",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נַגְּנוּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נַגֵּנָּה",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pi",
        "dwv": "נִגֵּן",
        "sort": "נגן",
        "tr": "nigén"
      },
      "expansion": "ניגן / נִגֵּן • (nigén) (pi'el construction)",
      "name": "he-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pi",
        "2": "נגן"
      },
      "name": "he-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hebrew",
  "lang_code": "he",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hebrew entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hebrew links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hebrew terms belonging to the root נ־ג־ן",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hebrew terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "יוני בלוך, אחרי שאפרת התאבדה\nהיה שם בחור עם פסנתר שניגן והרס איזה שיר לא שלו",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I played the piano.",
          "roman": "nigánti bapsantér.",
          "text": "ניגנתי בפסנתר.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              23
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              9,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "english": "What song shall we play?",
          "roman": "éize shír n'nagén?",
          "text": "איזה שיר ננגן?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To play (music), to play music."
      ],
      "id": "en-ניגן-he-verb-V9lKudZf",
      "links": [
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "construction-pi'el"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ניגן"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "נִגֵּן",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nigén",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "he-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "לְנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגון",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגּוּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנתי",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנְתִּי",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנו",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנּוּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנת",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנְתָּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנת",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנְתְּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנתם",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנְתֶּם",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנתן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגַּנְתֶּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנה",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגְּנָה",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ניגנו",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נִגְּנוּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "מְנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "מְנַגֶּנֶת",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "מְנַגְּנִים",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "מְנַגְּנוֹת",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "אֲנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נְנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגְּנִי",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "future",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגְּנוּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגֵּנָּה",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "future",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "יְנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "future",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "יְנַגְּנוּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "תְּנַגֵּנָּה",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "future",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נַגֵּן",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נַגְּנִי",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נַגְּנוּ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "נַגֵּנָּה",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pi",
        "dwv": "נִגֵּן",
        "sort": "נגן",
        "tr": "nigén"
      },
      "expansion": "ניגן / נִגֵּן • (nigén) (pi'el construction)",
      "name": "he-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pi",
        "2": "נגן"
      },
      "name": "he-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hebrew",
  "lang_code": "he",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Hebrew entries with incorrect language header",
        "Hebrew lemmas",
        "Hebrew links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Hebrew pi'el verbs",
        "Hebrew terms belonging to the root נ־ג־ן",
        "Hebrew terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Hebrew terms with quotations",
        "Hebrew terms with usage examples",
        "Hebrew verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for translations of Hebrew quotations",
        "Requests for transliteration of Hebrew quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "יוני בלוך, אחרי שאפרת התאבדה\nהיה שם בחור עם פסנתר שניגן והרס איזה שיר לא שלו",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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            [
              0,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I played the piano.",
          "roman": "nigánti bapsantér.",
          "text": "ניגנתי בפסנתר.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              23
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              9,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "english": "What song shall we play?",
          "roman": "éize shír n'nagén?",
          "text": "איזה שיר ננגן?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To play (music), to play music."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "construction-pi'el"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ניגן"
}

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  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'to-infinitive'",
  "path": [
    "ניגן"
  ],
  "section": "Hebrew",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "ניגן",
  "trace": ""
}

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