# nie
## Aba
### Noun

nie
* water

### References

* D. T. Tryon, Towards a Classification of Solomon Islands Languages

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch niet, nie, from Middle Dutch niwet, niet, from Old Dutch *niowiht, niewiht.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ni/ (generally)
* IPA: /‿i/ (commonly after a verb that ends in a consonant)
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

nie
* not
    Hy kan nie Afrikaans praat nie.He can't speak Afrikaans.

#### Usage notes

* This word has to be repeated at the end of a sentence, unless it is already the last word according to its natural position. (See the Wikipedia article about double negatives in Germanic languages.) Double negation is optional when the last word is another negator, such as nooit (“never”).

#### Related terms

* niemand
* niks

## Alemannic German
### Etymology

From Middle High German nio, from Old High German nio.

### Pronunciation

* (Zürich) IPA: /niə/

### Adverb

nie
* never

## Dutch
### Etymology 1

From niet, with dialectal end-t deletion and shortening of the ie-vowel.

#### Alternative forms

* niet (standard)
* ni (dialectal)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɪ/

#### Adverb

nie
* (dialectal) Alternative form of niet

##### Usage notes

* While the spelling nie and the invariable use of the corresponding pronunciation are dialectal, the standard word niet is not rarely given the same pronunciation, particularly in fast speech.

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch nie, from Old Dutch nie, from Proto-Germanic *ne *aiwaz. Cognate to German nie.
Equivalent to n- (“n-”) +‎ ie (“ever”) (from Middle Dutch ie, from Old Dutch io).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ni/

#### Adverb

nie
* (obsolete) never
    Synonyms: nooit, nimmer, nooit ofte nimmer

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ni/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

nie
* inflection of nier:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German nio, from Old High German nio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /niː/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iː

### Adverb

nie
* never, never at all (referring to an indefinite period of time)
    Das ist nie passiert! ― That has never happened!
    Wir werden die Wahrheit wohl nie erfahren. ― We'll probably never know the truth.
* never, not once (referring to a defined period of time; see usage notes below)
    Synonyms: nicht, gar nicht, überhaupt nicht
    Er hat sich in zwei Wochen nie die Haare gewaschen.He never washed his hair for two weeks.

#### Usage notes

* (not once): In English it is quite common to use the word “never” referring to a defined period of time: “I was waiting all night, but he never called.” German generally prefers, and often requires, to use nicht (“not”) in such contexts, possibly emphasized by another adverb such as gar or überhaupt: Ich habe den ganzen Abend gewartet, aber er hat (gar) nicht angerufen. Using nie is only possible if such a period of time is (unusually) long, as in the example sentence above.

#### Synonyms

* (never at all): niemals, nimmer (archaic)

#### Derived terms

* nie und nimmer

### See also

| probability | 100 % | 90 % | 50 % | 10 % | 0 % |
| Adverb | immer | meistens | manchmal | selten | nie |
German correlatives * :
| | Interrogative | Relative | Proximal | Distal | Similar | Different | Total | Negative | Indefinite | Indifferent |
| Personal | wer | wer derjenige der | dieser | jener | derselbe ebender ebenjener | sonst wer sonst einer sonst jemand (ein) anderer | jeder alle | niemand keiner | einer jemand irgendeiner irgendjemand mancher | wer auch immer |
| Impersonal | was | was das | dieses | jenes | dasselbe ebendas ebenjenes | sonst was (ein) anderes | jedes | keins | irgendetwas irgendwas manches | was auch immer |
| Optional | welch | welch | dieses | jenes | dasselbe ebendas ebenjenes | sonst welch (ein) anderes | alle | keins weder noch | irgendeins | welcher auch immer |
| Modal | wie | wie | so derart dermaßen | so derart dermaßen | gleich gleichwie genauso | sonst wie anderswie andersrum | egal wie | keineswegs | irgendwie | wie auch immer |
| Categorical | was für | was für | solch derlei | solch derlei | ebenso ebensolch solcherlei | anders | allerlei | keinerlei | mancherlei | was für einer auch immer |
| Temporal | wann | wann | jetzt | dann | ebendann gleichzeitig | sonst wann wann anders | immer | nie niemals | irgendwann | wann auch immer |
| Spatial | wo | wo | da hier | da dort | ebenda gleichenorts | sonst wo woanders andernorts | überall allerorts allerorten | nirgendwo nirgends nirgend | irgendwo mancherorts | wo auch immer |
| Origin | woher | woher | hierher | dorther weither | ebendaher | sonst woher | überallher | nirgendwoher nirgendsher nirgendher | irgendwoher | woher auch immer |
| Goal | wohin | wohin | hierhin | dorthin fernhin | ebendahin | sonst wohin | überallhin | nirgendwohin nirgendshin nirgendhin | irgendwohin | wohin auch immer |
| Countable | wie viele | wie viele | so viele wenige | so viele viele | genauso viele ebenso viele | - | alle | keine | irgendwelche einige | wie viele auch immer |
| Uncountable | wie viel | wie viel | so viel so sehr wenig | so viel so sehr viel | genauso viel ebenso viel | - | alles | nichts kein | etwas | wie viel auch immer sosehr |
| Reason | warum weshalb weswegen wieso | warum weshalb weswegen wieso | darum deshalb deswegen derentwegen | darum deshalb deswegen derentwegen | ebendarum ebendeshalb ebendeswegen gleichfalls | andernfalls ansonsten | (wegen allem) | grundlos umsonst | irgendwie (aus irgendeinem Grund) | warum auch immer |

### Further reading

* “nie” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “nie” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “nie” in Duden online

### Anagrams

* ein

## Hunsrik
### Etymology

From Middle High German nio, from Old High German nio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /niː/

### Adverb

nie
* never
    Ich hon das nie gesihn.I've never seen that.
    Du sollst das nie mache.You should never do that.

### Further reading

* Online Hunsrik Dictionary

## Ingrian
### Etymology

From nittoa (“to fasten”) +‎ -e. Akin to Finnish nide.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈnie/, [ˈnie̞]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈnie/, [ˈnie̞]
* Rhymes: -ie
* Hyphenation: ni‧e

### Noun

nie
* binding of a scythe

#### Declension
### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 340

## Iu Mien
### Etymology

From Chinese 泥 (MC nej).

### Noun

nie
* soil, dirt

## Japanese
### Romanization

nie
* Rōmaji transcription of にえ

## Mandarin
### Romanization

nie
* Nonstandard spelling of niē.
* Nonstandard spelling of nié.
* Nonstandard spelling of niě.
* Nonstandard spelling of niè.

#### 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.

## Northern Sami
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈnie̯/

### Adverb

nie
* that, so (to that degree)
* like that, in the same way

#### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From ni (“nine”).

### Noun

nie f (definite singular nia, uncountable)
* a niner
    Synonym: niar

### References

* “nie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Ine, ein, -ine, nei

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ne. First attested in the 14th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /ɲɛ(ː)/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ɲɛ/, /ɲe/

### Particle

nie
* negation particle; not, not

### Verb

nie impf
* there is no

#### Descendants

* Polish: nie
* Silesian: niy, ńy (Steuers Silesian alphabet), nie

### References

* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “nie”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

## Plautdietsch
### Etymology

From Middle Low German nîe, nü̂we, from Old Saxon niuwi. Related to West Frisian nij, Dutch nieuw, German neu, English new, Swedish ny.

### Adjective

nie
* new

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɲɛ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈɲɛ/, /ˈɲe/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Audio 3:(file)
* Audio 4:(file)
* Audio 5:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Syllabification: nie

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish nie.

#### Particle

nie
* negation particle; no, not
    Antonym: tak

##### Alternative forms

* ni (dialectal, Przemyśl)

#### Verb

nie impf (defective)
* (Middle Polish) there is no

##### Related terms

* nie-

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronoun

nie
* accusative singular of ono
* accusative plural of one

##### Usage notes

Used only with prepositions. See Appendix:Polish pronouns.

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 395 times in scientific texts, 446 times in news, 1225 times in essays, 2061 times in fiction, and 3714 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 8341 times, making it the 5th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “nie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 280

### Further reading

* nie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* nie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* “NIE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 15.02.2015
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “nie”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “nie”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “nie”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 252

## Sardinian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnie/

### Noun

nie m (plural nies)
* (Logudorese) Alternative form of nibe (“snow”)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Verb

nie
* Obsolete spelling of nije.

## Silesian
### Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɲɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Syllabification: nie

### Particle

nie
* Alternative form of niy

### Pronoun

nie
* accusative singular of ôno
* accusative plural of ône

#### Usage notes

Used only with prepositions.

### Further reading

* nie in silling.org