# -be
## Chichewa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɓe/

### Suffix

-be
* Used only for the verb -li ndi (“to have”) to form the negative.
    Alibe banja.He does not have a family.
* still, nevertheless (used as a clitic at the end of a verb)
    Sindinapitebe ku sukulu.I still have not gone to school.

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [bɛ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -bɛ

### Suffix

-be
* (illative case suffix) Front-vowel variant of -ba. See details there.
    kert (“garden”) → a kertbe (“into the garden”)
* Eye dialect spelling of -ben.

#### Usage notes

* (illative case suffix) Variants:
    -ba is added to back-vowel words. Final -a changes to -á-.
       alma (“apple”) → Beleharapott egy almába. ― He/she has bitten into an apple.
    -be is added to front-vowel words. Final -e changes to -é-.
       zene (“music”) → Variációkat dolgoztunk bele a zenébe. ― We worked variations into the music.
| Case | Back vowel a, á, o, ó, u, ú | Front vowel | Front vowel |
| Case | Back vowel a, á, o, ó, u, ú | unrounded e, é, i, í | rounded ö, ő, ü, ű |
| nominative | — | — | — |
| accusative | -t | -t | -t |
| accusative | -ot / -at | -et | -öt |
| dative | -nak | -nek | -nek |
| instrumental | -val | -vel | -vel |
| causal-final | -ért | -ért | -ért |
| translative | -vá | -vé | -vé |
| terminative | -ig | -ig | -ig |
| essive-formal | -ként | -ként | -ként |
| essive-modal | -ul | -ül | -ül |
| inessive | -ban | -ben | -ben |
| superessive | -n | -n | -n |
| superessive | -on | -en | -ön |
| adessive | -nál | -nél | -nél |
| illative | -ba | -be | -be |
| sublative | -ra | -re | -re |
| allative | -hoz | -hez | -höz |
| elative | -ból | -ből | -ből |
| delative | -ról | -ről | -ről |
| ablative | -tól | -től | -től |
| Note for all endings: Stem-final -a/-e changes to -á-/-é-, respectively, except before -ként.  alma — almában, but almaként  zene ― zenében, but zeneként ||||

#### Related terms

* -ban / -ben
* -ba / -be
* be → be-
* bel-
* bele (belé, beléje)
* -beli (-béli)
* beljebb (bellebb)
* bellebbez (beljebbez)
* belőle
* belső (benső)
* belül (belől, bévül)
* benne
* bennünket, -eteket
* bent (benn)
* bél (and archaic bel)
* -ból / -ből

### See also

* Category:Hungarian terms taking -ba/-be
* Appendix:Hungarian suffixes
$^1$Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise. Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All Hungarian pronouns /

## Japanese
### Romanization

-be
* Rōmaji transcription of べ

## Murui Huitoto
### Etymology

Cognate with Minica Huitoto -be and Nüpode Huitoto -be.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [-bɛ]

### Classifier

-be
* Classifier for leaf-shaped objects.

#### Derived terms
### References

* Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 194

## Tswana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɪ/

### Adjective

-be
* bad, evil
* ugly

#### Declension

| Class | Singular | Plural |
| 1 / 2 | o mobe | ba babe |
| 3 / 4 | o mobe | e mebe |
| 5 / 6 | le lebe | a mabe |
| 7 / 8 | se sebe | di mpe (pred.) tse mpe (attr.) |
| 9 / 10 | e mpe | di mpe (pred.) tse mpe (attr.) |
| 11 | lo lobe |
| 14 | bo bobe |
| 15 | go gobe |