# nen
## English
### Pronoun

nen
* (Geordie) none

### Anagrams

* NNE

## Abinomn
### Noun

nen
* elder brother

## Ainu
### Etymology

From ne (“interrogatory root”) +‎ n (“person”). See nep, nekon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ne̞n]

### Pronoun

nen (Kana spelling ネン)
* (interrogative) who

#### Synonyms

* hunna

### See also

| Personal | Personal | Personal | Qualitative | Quantitative | Temporal | Spacial |
| what? | who? | which? | what kind of? how? | how many? | when? | where? |
| hemanta, nep | hunna, nen | inan | mak, makanak, nekon | henpak | henpara | hunak |

## Albanian
### Etymology

Variant of nyjë.

### Noun

nen m (plural nenë)
* numbered subdivision of a law: paragraph, article, section (of a statute);
* clause (of a contract/statute)

### Further reading

* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* nin (Mallorca)

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ninnus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɛn]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈnen]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nen m (plural nens, feminine nena)
* boy, male child
    Synonym: nano

### Further reading

* “nen” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “nen”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “nen” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “nen” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Cornish
### Noun

nen
* ceiling

### References

* http://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Article

nen
* (Brabant) Alternative form of ne
    nen booma tree

#### Usage notes

See usage notes at ne.

## German
### Article

nen
* Nonstandard form of 'n.

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French nez (“nose”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɛ̃/

### Noun

nen
* nose

## Japanese
### Romanization

nen
* Rōmaji transcription of ねん

## Ladin
### Pronoun

nen
* some

## Mandarin
### Romanization

nen
* Nonstandard spelling of nèn.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Middle Low German
### Etymology

Probably shortened from Old Saxon nihen (“not one”).

### Pronunciation

* Stem vowel: ê²
** (originally) IPA: /nɛːn/

### Article

nên
* no, none; used and inflected in the same way as the article ên.
** ca. 1485, author unknown, Van deme quaden thyra̅ne Dracole wyda., published by Bartholomaeus Gothan, verso of the 5th sheet:
    Gy ſynt de ſnodeſte vn̅ de groteſte thiran. den men vinden mach in alle der werlnde$_{[sic]}$. vn̅ ik hebbe nene̅ minſche̅ ny gheſeen noch ghehort de iuw ye wat gudes na ſecht heft.
       You are the vilest and greatest tyrant that one might find in all the world, and I have not seen nor heard one human, that has ever said a good thing about you.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin nōn (“not”), with the -n surviving intervocalically.

### Adverb

nen
* (before vowels) Alternative form of ne (“not”)
** c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland‎, lines 7–9:Li reis Marsilie la tient, ki Deu nen aimet; / Mahumet sert e Apollin recleimet: / Nes poet guarder que mals ne l'i ateignet.The king Marsile rules it [Zaragoza], [he] who doesn't love God; he worships Mohammed and prays to Apollin: he cannot escape from the evil that approaches him.

#### Usage notes

Mainly used to metric reasons in poems, to gain a syllable.

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* nān

### Etymology

Blend of ne (“not”) +‎ ēn (“one”). Akin to Old English nān.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈneːn/, [ˈnɛːn]

### Determiner

nēn
* no, not one

### Pronoun

nēn
* none, no-one, nobody

#### Descendants

* North Frisian: nån, neen, niin
* Saterland Frisian: neen, naan
* West Frisian: neen

#### References

* Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin nec.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnẽ/

### Adverb

nen
* not even (introduces an emphatic negation or exclusion)
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 30 (facsimile):
    Nen ela outroſſi anos de nõ pode Se deus Maiude dizer q̇ nõ rogue de coraçõ
       Not even she can’t tell us, if God helps me, that one shouldn’t beg heartily

### Conjunction

nen
* nor (introduces each except the first term of a series, indicating that none of them is true)
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 6 (facsimile):
    Porend a ſant eſcritura que non mente nen erra nos conta un gn̈ miragre que fez en Engra terra. A uirgen ſanta maria.
       However, the Holy Scripture, which doesn’t lie nor err, tells of a great miracle that Virgin Holy Mary worked in England.

#### Descendants

* Fala: nin
* Galician: nin
* Portuguese: nem

## Old Saxon
### Alternative forms

* neen
* nian
* nein

### Etymology

By surface analysis, a contraction of ne + en.

### Determiner

nēn
* no, not one

### Interjection

nen
* no
** 9th c. Heliand, verse 1522-1523
    ...queđe iā, gef it sī, [geha] thes thār wār is, queđe nēn, af it nis, [lāta] im genōg an thiu;......say yes, if it be, confess of that where the truth is, say no, if it is not, let enough (for) him in that;...

#### Antonyms

* ja

#### References

Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnen/ [ˈnẽn]
* Rhymes: -en
* Syllabification: nen

### Conjunction

nen
* Obsolete form of ni (“neither, nor”).

### Further reading

* “nen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English name.

### Noun

nen
* name

#### Derived terms

* deinen

## Volapük
### Preposition

nen
* without

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɛn

### Noun

nen f (plural nennau or nennoedd, not mutable)
* heaven

#### Synonyms

* nef

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “nen”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies