# 네

| 네 | U+B124, &#45348; HANGUL SYLLABLE NE |
| Composition: | ㄴ + ㅔ |
| ← 넣 [U+B123] | Hangul Syllables | 넥 → [U+B125] |
네넥넦넧넨넩넪 넫넬넭넮넯넰넱 넲넳넴넵넶넷넸 넹넺넻넼넽넾넿 :
| 너 ← | → 녀 |

## Jeju
### Pronunciation

* (Morphophonemic) IPA: ⫽ne⫽
* (Jeju City) IPA: [ne]
* Phonetic hangul: [네]

### Etymology 1

See Korean 네 (ne).

#### Determiner

네 (ne)
* four

### Etymology 2

See Korean 내 (nae).

#### Noun

네 (ne)
* smoke

### References

* “네” in Jeju's culture and language, Digital museum.

## Korean
### Etymology 1

First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 迺 (Yale: *nay).
In the hangul script, first attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 네〯 (Yale: něy).
Beyond Middle Korean, the reconstruction of the ancestral Koreanic root for "four" is difficult. See a list of relevant attestations and forms in Appendix:Historical Koreanic numerals#Four.

#### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [ne̞(ː)]
* Phonetic hangul: [네(ː)]
** Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

#### Determiner

네 • (ne)
* (native numeral) four (of something)
    학생 네 명 ― haksaeng ne myeong ― four students
    비둘기 네 마리 ― bidulgi ne mari ― four pigeons
    네 개의 그림이 있습니다. ― Ne gae-ui geurim-i itseumnida. ― There are four pictures.

##### Usage notes

In modern Korean, numbers are usually written in Arabic numerals.
The Korean language has two sets of numerals: a native set of numerals inherited from Old Korean, and a Sino-Korean set which was borrowed from Middle Chinese in the first millennium C.E.
Native classifiers take native numerals.
* 개 한 마리 (gae han mari, “one dog”, native numeral)
* 나무 두 그루 (namu du geuru, “two trees”, native numeral)
Some Sino-Korean classifiers take native numerals, others take Sino-Korean numerals, while yet others take both.
* 종이 두 장(張) (jong'i du jang, “two sheets of paper”, native numeral)
* 이 분(分) (i bun, “two minutes”, Sino-Korean numeral)
* 서른/삼십 명(名) (seoreun/samsip myeong, “thirty people”, both sets possible)
Recently loaned classifiers generally take Sino-Korean numerals.
* 일 킬로미터 (il killomiteo, “one kilometer”, Sino-Korean numeral)
For many terms, a native numeral has a quantifying sense, whereas a Sino-Korean numeral has a sense of labeling.
* 세 반(班) (se ban, “three school classes”, native numeral)
* 삼 반(班) (sam ban, “Class Number Three”, Sino-Korean numeral)
When used in isolation, native numerals refer to objects of that number and are used in counting and quantifying, whereas Sino-Korean numerals refer to the numbers in a more mathematical sense.
* 하나만 더 주세요 (hana-man deo juse-yo, “Could you give me just one more, please”, native numeral)
* 일 더하기 일은? (il deohagi ir-eun?, “What's one plus one?”, Sino-Korean numeral)
While older stages of Korean had native numerals up to the thousands, native numerals currently exist only up to ninety-nine, and Sino-Korean is used for all higher numbers. There is also a tendency—particularly among younger speakers—to uniformly use Sino-Korean numerals for the higher tens as well, so that native numerals such as 일흔 (ilheun, “seventy”) or 아흔 (aheun, “ninety”) are becoming less common.

### Etymology 2

Probably from the same source as 예 (ye), plausibly *녜 (*nye) (apparently not directly attested).

#### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [ne̞]
* Phonetic hangul: [네]

#### Interjection

네 • (ne)
* (polite) yes
    네, 알겠습니다. ― Ne, al-get-seumnida. ― Yes, I understand.

##### Usage notes

* Korean has a number of words for "yes". 예 (ye) is highly polite and formal, appropriate in an interview; 네 (ne) is polite but less formal, appropriate in a conversation with parents; and 응 (eung) and 어 (eo) are plain and non-formal, appropriate in a conversation with friends.

### Etymology 3
#### nominative

    From Middle Korean 네〯 (ně-y).
    Equivalent to a contraction of 너 (neo, “you”) +‎ 이 (-i, nominative case marker), which is no longer grammatically accepted.

#### genitive

    From Middle Korean 네 (nèy).
    Equivalent to a contraction of 너 (neo, “you”) +‎ 의 (-ui, genitive case marker).

#### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [ni] ~ [ne̞]
* Phonetic hangul: [니/네]

#### Pronoun

네 • (ne)
* Form of 너 (neo, “you”):
** Only used in 네가 (nega): the nominative form of 너 (neo, “you”).
** your; genitive of 너 (neo, “you”).

##### Usage notes

* Usually pronounced 니 (ni) to avoid homophony with 내 (nae, “I, me; my”). The 네 (ne) pronunciation is still used in reading literature, songs, etc.
* (nominative): 너가 (neo-ga) is increasingly common.
* (genitive): 너 (neo) used attributively, without any genitive marking, is also common.

### Etymology 4

Related to 누구 (nugu). Possibly descended from 뉘〯 (Yale: nwǔy).

#### Pronoun

네 • (ne)
* (Russia) who, whom
** 2015 February 18, 신 크세이냐 본서너브나 [sin keuseinya bonseoneobeuna], “내 덕에 먹고 산다 [nae deoge meokgo sanda]”, in 한국구비문학대계 [han'gukgubimunhakdaegye]‎, 우즈베키스탄 타쉬켄트 이크마을 [ujeubekiseutan taswikenteu ikeuma'eul]:야 너는 네 덕에 사는가?ya neo-neun ne deog-e sa-neun'ga?Hey, thanks to who is it that you live well?