# ne
## Translingual
### Symbol

ne
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Nepali.

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Latin nē, Sanskrit न (na), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.

#### Adverb

ne (not comparable)
* (obsolete) Not.
** c1500, Melusine (translation):
    For she ne dare doo, but to commande.
** 1512, Robert Copland, The History of Helyas, Knight of The Swan‎:And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the ne dyed for sorowe / wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge.
** c1520, Andria by Terence (translation):
    This shold haue bene his skuce at the lest / And it ne had bene but good & honest.
** c1520, Andria by Terence (translation):
    O so incessaunt thow ad in thy desyre / For so that thow thy mynde now mayst haue / Thow ne caryst what thow dost requyre.
** 1550, The Mirror for Magistrates:For he ne had, nor could increase his line.
** 1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet:In geving me to him whom I ne can, ne may, ne ought to love.
** 1576, William Lambarde, A perambulation of Kent‎:Mary (quoth the king) so might me mine, ne haddest thou been Earle Godwine: casting in his dish the murder of his brother Alfred, which was done to death at Elie by the Counsell of Godwine.
** 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:Ne durst again his fieri face out-show.
** 1587, George Gascoigne, Francis Kinwelmershe, Jocasta:Ioc: How can that be and thou my ioy in warre? Po: Henceforth n'am I your ioy ne yet your sonne.
** c. 1590, William Fowler, The Works of William Fowler‎:What happs might chance me I ne knewe.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:His forces faile, ne can no lenger fight.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:As when a ship, that flyes faire vnder saile, / An hidden rocke escaped hath vnwares, / That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile, / The Marriner yet halfe amazed stares / At perill past, and yet it doubt ne dares / To ioy at his foole-happie ouersight.
** 1591, John Phillip, A Commemoration on the Life and Death of the Right Honourable, Sir Christopher Hatton:And now sweete death most welcome vnto mee, thy stroakes ne can, ne shall me once dismay.
** 1592, Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London:And twenty thousand infants that ne wot the right hand from the left.
** 1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors‎:But when he spoke, his plenteous words did flow / Like to thick-falling flakes of winter snow, / Ne any couth his wit so hiely straine.
** 1614, John Davies of Hereford, Eclogue Between Young Willy the SInger of His Native Pastorals, and Old Wernocke His Friend‎:Now, siker ( Wernocke ) thou hast split the marke / Albe that I ne wot I han mis-song: / But, for I am so yong, I dread my warke / Woll be misualued both of old and yong.
** 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I, 2:Whilom in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth, / Who ne in virtue's ways did take delight [...].

#### Conjunction

ne
* (obsolete) Nor.
** 1484, Original Letters, King Edward the Fifth, under the direction of his Uncle, to Otes Gilbert, Esq., commanding him to receive Knighthood at the expected Coronation‎:That than I shall not geve therunto faith ne credence, nor therfore put them to any maner ponyssement, before that they or any of them so accused may be at their lawful defence and answer.
** 1489, The gouernayle of helthe‎:And therin is no drede nor bytternes ne expences, but therin is pure recreacyon of body and of soule soo it be donn in clene places.
** 1489, The gouernayle of helthe‎:Be not to hasty ne sodenly vengeable, to poure folke doo no vyolence.
** 1489, The gouernayle of helthe‎:Moreouer no man be so hardy to drynk fastyng cold water, ne after that he hath accompanyed wyth a woman, ne after gret trauayle, ne after exersice tyll he haue fyrst rested hym, ne by nyght namely yf he haue do gloue tofore.
** 1500, The Example of Euyll Tongues:A false tonge wyll euer Imagyne and saye / That neuer by creature was sayd ne thought.
** 1509, Wynkyn de Worde, The fyftene joyes of maryage‎:For chastyce can he not by daye ne nyght his wyfe but by his betynge maketh lyght and hote the loue bytwene her and her frende.
** 1511, The Records of the City of Norwich‎:Item, that noo woman nor maide weyve any worsted stamynges ne sayes for that that thei be nott of sufficient powre to werke the said worsteddes as thei owte to be wrought, upon payne of iij s iiij d as often as thei be founde wevyng to be devyded and leuyed in maner and forme aboue expressed.
** 1520, Richard Pynson, The Lyfe of The Blessed Martyr Saynte Thomas‎:That they shulde no lenger kepe ne susteyne Thomas the archebysshope.
** 1526, The Grete Herball‎:The rote ought to be gadered in the begynnynge of somer and dryed in the sonne bycause [tha]¬t it corrupt ne rotte bycause of the moystnesse[,] & it may be kept two yeres;
** 1535, Thomas Elyot, The Education or Bringing up of Children:For lyinge is a detestable vice, and to be hated of all men, ne to be suffred amonge seruantis ne other persones[,] howe poure estate so euer they be of.
** 1542, Nicholas Udall, Apophthegms (translation):Thus some persones beeyng inuited and exhorted to falle to the studie of lettres, make their excuse that thei bee sickely, that thei can not slepe ne take their naturall reste in the nightes.
** 1558, Thomas Phaer, The Aeneid (translation):We Moores be not so base of wit, ne yet so blunt of mynd.
** c. 1560, Edward Gosynhill, The Schoolhouse of Women‎:The deuyll gossyp, ought me a shame / And prayde I am nowe, euerye penye I wolde god he had, be blinde and lame / The daye and houre, he fyrste woed me / Ware not gossyp, these chyldren thre I wolde not tary, ye may be sure / Longer with hym, daye ne houre.
** 1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet:Neither extremitie, ne gentle meanes could boote; she hydeth close within her brest, her secret sorowes roote.
** 1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet:Ne on her teares or plaint, at all to have remorse, but (if they can not with her will,) to bring the mayde perforce.
** 1570, John Thynne, The Debate betweene Pride and Lowlines‎:His hart encreaseth not thereby ne lesseth as edoon these fooles.
** 1577, The Hereford Municipal Manuscript‎:And that no victualer ne other person or persons forestall any kynde of victualls cominge to the said Cyty or within the precyncte of the same before the same victualls be come to the place.
** 1587, George Gascoigne, Francis Kinwelmershe, Jocasta:Ioc: How can that be and thou my ioy in warre? Po: Henceforth n'am I your ioy ne yet your sonne.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:But to her cry they list not lenden eare, / Ne ought the more their mightie strokes surceasse.
** 1634, W. Lathum, (Please provide the book title or journal name):Whose worth all outward is in shew alone / But inward sent hath not, ne vertue none.
** 1798, Samuel Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ll. 443-6:The pang, the curse, with which they died, / Had never pass'd away; / I could not draw my een from theirs / Ne turn them up to pray.

##### Usage notes

* Ne survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is almost never used in common speech.

##### Related terms

* ne exeat

### Etymology 2

From Maori nē.

#### Adverb

ne (not comparable)
* (New Zealand) "Isn't that so?" (used in representations of Maori English). [from 19th c.]
** 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin 1986, p. 6:
    Then, he had only chuckled again and said, “Well, we got him on the way, ne?”

### Etymology 3
#### Adverb

ne
* (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of any.

### Anagrams

* -en, en-, en, EN, En

## Abinomn
### Noun

ne (dual nerom, plural nekon)
* arrow (projectile)

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈne/ [ˈnɛ]

### Pronoun

né
* we, us

#### Usage notes

* The form née is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.

#### See also
### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ne”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

## Ainu
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne/

### Verb

ne (Kana spelling ネ)
* (intransitive, copulative) to be, become
    Ainu ne ruwe ne.He is an Ainu.

#### Derived terms

* newa (“and”)

### See also

* an (“to exist”)

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* (Gheg) na
* në

### Etymology

The nominative-accusative is from accusative Proto-Albanian *nōs, stressed form of clitic Proto-Indo-European *nos, which is continued by the clitic na. Neve and nesh are innovated, but Gheg retains dative nahe (Old Albanian nae) from a genitive *nosōm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [nɛ]

### Pronoun

ne (accusative ne, dative neve, ablative nesh)
* we, us

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 85, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “ne”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 289

## Blagar
### Noun

ne
* human, person

### References

* A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1

## Breton
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *ni.

### Particle

ne
* not

#### Usage notes

Used combined with ket, mirroring French ne ... pas.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* (Balearic, Central) IPA: /nə/
* (Valencia, Alghero) IPA: /ne/

### Pronoun

ne (enclitic, contracted 'n, proclitic en, contracted proclitic n')
* represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun
* represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition de
* replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition de
* replaces the object of a causative verb

#### Usage notes

* ne cannot be used more than once as the object of a given verb.
* While ne is usually used to replace phrases beginning with the preposition de, adverbial phrases (eg de pressa) are replaced with hi.
* ne is sometimes used instead of ho to replace an adjective or indefinite noun as the predicate of a verb.
* ne is sometimes used popularly to add emphasis to a sentence: in this sense, it has no translation in English.
* -ne is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs ending with a consonant or ⟨u⟩, or between some adverbs/pronouns and a verb. In some varieties of Catalan (Balearic/Valencian) it can also occur in sentence-initial position.

#### See also

$^1$ Behaves grammatically as plural.   $^2$ Behaves grammatically as third person. $^3$ Only as object of a preposition.   $^4$ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

## Chuukese
### Conjunction

ne
* to (connects verbs)

### Preposition

ne
* Expressing a fraction or a ratio. Preceded by a nominator and followed by the denominator.

## Czech
### Etymology

inherited from Old Czech ne, from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnɛ]
* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

ne
* no!

### Particle

ne
* not

### See also

* ano

### Further reading

* “ne”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “ne”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin nec, neque. Compare Italian nè, Spanish, Catalan and French ni, Romanian nici.

### Adverb

ne
* neither

## Deg
### Noun

ne
* water

### References

* Maurice Delafosse, Vocabulaires comparatifs de plus de 60 langues ou dialectes parlés à la Côte d’Ivoire et dans les régions limitrophes : avec des notes linguistiques et ethnologiques, une bibliographie et une carte (Paris, E. Leroux, 1904), page 231

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* nen (before vowels and b, d and t)

### Etymology

From nen through apocope, itself a contraction of eenen, enen, the now-obsolete accusative form of een.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ne
* Rhymes: -ə

### Article

ne
* (Belgium, colloquial) a, an
    ne mana man

#### Usage notes

ne is used primarily in dialects that retain the three-way gender split. It is only used for masculine words, while een is used for feminine and neuter words.
The form nen is used before vowels (as the English an) and certain consonants (commonly b, d and t), differing from dialect to dialect.

### See also

* den

### Anagrams

* en

## Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
### Determiner

ne
* that.

### Pronoun

ne
* that.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From French ne, Polish nie, Russian не (ne), etc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ne]
* Hyphenation: ne

### Particle

ne
* no
* not
* non-

#### Antonyms

* ja
* jes

#### Derived terms

* nei (“to say no, to deny”)
* nee (“rejectingly, denyingly, with the word no”)
* nea (“negative, denying, rejecting”)
* kapnei (“to shake one's head no”)

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nek, from Proto-Uralic *ne + *-k (dual ending). Compare Erzya не (ne), неть (neť).
The inflectional stem nii- derives from the same stem with the plural infix (-i-), through an older *nij- (< *ne-j-). Compare also se.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈne̞]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -e
* Hyphenation: ne

### Pronoun

ne
* (demonstrative, of things and animals) nominative plural of se: they, those (objects not pointed at by the speaker)
* (colloquial, dialectal, of people) nominative plural of se: they
    Synonym: he

### Determiner

ne
* nominative plural of se: those (not pointed at by the speaker)
    Tässä ne kirjat nyt ovat.This is where those books are now.

#### Usage notes

See the usage notes under se.

#### Inflection

The case suffixes are mostly regular (except the inessive and elative singular). Abessive is never used in the singular and extremely seldom in the plural. Instructive niin is more or less a theoretical construction, since it has developed into an adverb, and its current meaning cannot be derived from ne.
Declension of se
noun case
singular
pluraladverbial form
singular
plural
nominative
se
nesuperessive
siellä
genitive
sen
niiden, niittendelative
sieltä
partitive
sitä
niitäsublative
sinne
accusative
se, sen
nelative
siis
inessive
siinä
niissätemporal
silloin
elative
siitä
niistäcausative
siten
illative
siihen
niihinmultiplicative
adessive
sillä
niillädistributive
ablative
siltä
niiltätemp. dist.
allative
sille
niilleprolative
essive
sinä
niinäsituative
translative
siksi
niiksioppositive
abessive
(niittä)
instructive
(niin)
comitative
niine :

#### Descendants

* Kven: net
* Meänkieli: net

#### See also
### Further reading

* “ne”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* -en, en

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French nen or ne preceding words starting in a consonant, from Latin nōn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nə/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ə

### Particle

ne
* (literary) not (used alone to negate a verb; now chiefly with only a few particular verbs: see usage notes)
** 1713, Voltaire, letter, Dec 1713:
    Je ne sais si je dois vous appeler Monsieur ou Mademoiselle […] .I don't know if I should call you Mr or Miss.
** 1826, Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal, section XXXVIII:Le prince de France nous aime, celui d’Espagne ne cesse de nous secourir.The prince of France loves us, that of Spain never stops helping us.
** 1868, Emile Zola, Madeleine Férat:Je n’ose te jurer que je t’aime toujours, parce que je sens bien que tu ne me croirais pas.I dare not swear that I still love you, for I sense that you would not believe me.
** 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive:Mais je ne le crois pas : un homme qui trouve naturel de dénoncer des hommes ne peut avoir notre conception de l’humain […] .But I don't think so: a man who finds it natural to denounce men cannot have our idea of being human.
** 1963, Françoise Hardy, L'Amour s'en va:L’amour s’en va, et le tien ne saurait durer.Love goes away, and yours will not be able to last.
* not, no (used before a verb, with a coordinating negative element usually following; see Usage Notes, below)
** 1851, Henri Murger, Le pays latin:Je ne sais rien de plus odieux que l’hypocrisie.I don't know anything more odious than hypocrisy.
** 1998, Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules Élémentaires:Bruno se rendit compte qu’il ne serait jamais accepté par les hippies […] .Bruno realised that he'd never be accepted by the hippies.
** 2012 May 3, Le Monde:"Il n’y a pas eu un truc auquel on ne s’attendait pas", affirme Stéphane Le Foll."There wasn't anything we weren't expecting," stated Stéphane Le Foll.
* Used in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb (especially when the main verb expresses doubt or fear), to provide extra overtones of doubt or uncertainty (but not negating its verb); the so-called "pleonastic" or "expletive" ne.
** 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Derner Jour d'un Condamné, section XXVII:Ah! mes cheveux blanchiront avant que ma tête ne tombe!Oh! My hair will go white before my head falls!
** 1837, George Sand, Mauprat:Oui, mais je crains qu’elle ne soit plus malade qu’elle ne l’avoue, repartit l’abbé."Yes, but I think she might be more ill than she's letting on," the priest replied.
* In comparative clauses usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative
    Apprendre le français est plus facile qu’on ne pense.Learning French is easier than you (might) think.

#### Usage notes

* Typically, ne follows the subject and is itself followed by the verb and:
** a negative adverbial (pas (“not; don't/doesn't”), plus (“no more, no longer”), jamais (“never”), guère (“hardly”), or (now literary) point (“not a bit”));
** a nominal element modified by a negative determiner (aucun or nul, both meaning "no", "not a") — note that these phrases can take on nominal, pronominal or adverbial functions;
** More mobile are negative pronouns, the most common being personne (“nobody”) and rien (“nothing”), which will follow ne and the verb if they function as the object complement of that verb, but if they are the subject of a given clause, they will usually sit at its head:
    Personne ne s’en souviendra demain. ― Nobody will remember about it tomorrow.
    Rien ne le dérange. ― Nothing bothers him.
* In literary French (i.e., the most formal variety of the written language) certain verbs can be negated with ne alone (without another negating element like pas). Nowadays, this list is restricted chiefly to the verbs pouvoir, savoir, cesser, oser, and daigner. Less formal registers still require coordination with another negative element.
* In colloquial (i.e., spoken) French, ne is often omitted, leaving the other negating element (pas, plus, rien, personne, etc.) to indicate the sentence's negative state on its own (unless more than one of these elements is already present).
    Je veux pas ça. ― I don't want that.
    Il attend personne. ― He's not waiting for anyone.
    J’en ai plus besoin. ― I don't need it anymore.
    On va nulle part. ― We're not going anywhere.
    In some regions, ne has disappeared from spoken language either entirely or nearly so. Even when it is included in spoken form, the weak "e" is often elided, causing the remaining /n/ to assimilate into nearby words. Compare a few possible versions of the above example, Je veux pas ça, more or less rising in levels of formality:
       J’ veux pas ça. /ʒ‿vø pɑ sa/
       Je veux pas ça. /ʒə vø pɑ sa/
       Je n’ veux pas ça. /ʒə̃ vø pɑ sa/
       Je ne veux pas ça. /ʒə nə vø pɑ sa/, /ʒə‿n.vø pɑ sa/

### See also

* guère
* jamais
* pas
* personne
* plus
* point
* que
* rien

### Further reading

* “ne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* French grammar: Negation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* en

## Gagauz
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish نَه (nä), from Proto-Turkic *nē-. Compare Turkish ne, Azerbaijani nə.

#### Adverb

ne
* why

#### Pronoun

ne
* (interrogative) what?
    O ne?What is that?
    ne isteersiniz?what do you want?
* whatever, what
    ne desä yapacamI will do whatever he says

##### Derived terms

* nasıl
* näändan
* näänı
* neçin
* nedän
* nekadar
* neredä
* neredän
* nereli
* nereyi
* nesoy
* netakım
* netürlü
* nezaman
* nicä

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish نَه (nä), from Persian نه (na). Turkish ne, Azerbaijani nə.

#### Conjunction

ne... ne...
* neither... nor...
    ne sendä ne dä bendä varNeither I nor do you have it.

### Further reading

* Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 120
* N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “ne”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, pages 341-342

## German
### Etymology 1

From Middle High German ne, ni (“not, if not”), from Old High German ne, ni (“no, not, not at all, by no means”), from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”). Also possibly from a contraction of nicht, dialectal net, nit, ni.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nə/

#### Particle

ne
* (colloquial, regional, Northern Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia) right?; is it?; is it not?; tag question
    Synonyms: gell, oder, wa; see also Thesaurus:nicht wahr
    Wir müssen da lang, ne?We need to go that way, don't we?
    Du hast keine Geschwister, ne?You don't have siblings, do you?

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /neː/

#### Interjection

ne
* Alternative spelling of nee

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nə/

#### Article

ne
* Alternative spelling of 'ne

## German Low German
### Article

ne f
* (Paderbornisch) nominative/accusative feminine singular of en: a

### Pronoun

ne m
* (Paderbornisch) weak accusative of hei: him

#### See also

* iähne

## Gothic
### Romanization

nē
* Romanization of 𐌽𐌴

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnɛ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -nɛ

### Adverb

ne
* don't, should/shall not, stop (doing something)
    Ne hallgass rá! ― Don't listen to him!
    Ne felejtsd el! or (more emphatically) El ne felejtsd! ― (Mind you) don't forget it!
    Miért ne? (= Miért ne csináljuk/tegyük?) ― Why not? (literally, “Why shouldn't [we do it]?”)
    Bár ne tettem volna! ― I wish I hadn't done it.
    Ne lopj! ― Thou shalt not steal.

#### Usage notes

Used before the verb in an imperative clause (or sometimes a conditional clause expressing a wish or desire) to negate that clause; ne is always used instead of nem in the imperative mood.

#### Derived terms

* nebáncsvirág
* nehogy
* nemulass
* netalán
* netovább
* ajándék lónak ne nézd a fogát
* aki nem dolgozik, ne is egyék
* akinek nem inge, ne vegye magára
* akinek vaj van a fején, ne menjen a napra
* amit ma megtehetsz, ne halaszd holnapra
* félreértés ne essék
* hogy egyik szavam a másikba ne öltsem
* ne igyál előre a medve bőrére
* ne keltsd fel az alvó oroszlánt
* ne szólj, szám, nem fáj fejem
* ne zavartasd magad
* soha ne add fel
* tisztesség ne essék szólván

### Further reading

* ne in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Ido
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne/, /nɛ/

### Etymology 1

From Esperanto ne, from French ne, Russian не (ne).

#### Adverb

ne
* not, don’t

##### Derived terms

* ne- (“non-, un-, in-, im-, ir- (etc.)”)

### Etymology 2

From n +‎ -e.

#### Noun

ne (plural ne-i)
* The name of the Latin script letter N/n.

##### See also

* Latin script letter names: literi: a · be · ce · che · de · e · fe · ge · he · i · je · ke · le · me · ne · o · pe · que · re · se · she · te · u · ve · we · xe · ye · ze

## Ingrian
### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈne̞]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈne̞]
* Rhymes: -e
* Hyphenation: ne

### Pronoun

ne
* Alternative form of neet
** 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:Miltaisee poolee ne ollaa opettajast?On which side of the teacher are they?

### Determiner

ne
* Alternative form of neet

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 338

### Anagrams

* en

## Isthmus Zapotec
### Conjunction

ne
* and

## Istro-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin nix, nivem, through Proto-Romanian (compare Romanian nea, Aromanian neao), from Proto-Italic *sniks, from Proto-Indo-European *snígʷʰs (“snow”), root noun derived from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).

### Noun

ne f (definite nevu, genitive/dative lu nevu)
* snow

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From Latin inde (“thence”). Compare French en (adverb, pronoun).

#### Alternative forms

* -ne (enclitic form)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^°$/ne/$^°$
* IPA: (traditional) /ne/$^°$
* Rhymes: -e
* Hyphenation: ne
* In modern usage but not traditional usage, this word actively blocks syntactic gemination of its initial consonant. Hence però ne prendo (“I (will) take some”) is pronounced /peˈrɔ ne ˈprɛndo/ in modern usage, but /peˈrɔ‿nne ˈprɛndo/ traditionally, since però normally triggers syntactic gemination.

#### Adverb

ne
* from there
    Si chiuse in casa e non ne uscì per giorni.He shut himself in the house, and didn't come out for days.(literally, “He locked himself in house, and didn't from there come out for days.”)

##### Usage notes

* The adverb ne replaces di là (“from there”):
    Sono di Genova; ne sono venuto stamattina.I am from Genoa; I came from there this morning.

#### Pronoun

ne
* from this; from that; from these; from those, sometimes not translated in English
    Furono mesi di lavoro sfibrante, ma ne venne fuori un gran film.There were months of exhausting work, but a great movie came out of those.
* about this; about that; about these; about those
    Ne abbiamo parlato, ma non sono sicuro che abbia capito.We talked about that, but I'm not sure he understood.
    Certo che ricordo quell'evento: ne ho perfino scritto in un articolo.Of course I remember that event, I even wrote an article about that
* of this; of that; of these; of those, sometimes not translated in English
    Se è avanzata della torta, ne vorrei una fetta, per favore.If there's some cake left, I would like a slice.(literally, “If is left some cake, of it I would like a slice.”)
    Avevi promesso di tornare a casa, te ne ricordi?You promised you'd come back home, do you remember (that)?(literally, “You had promised to come back to home, do you of it remember?”)
* of them (sometimes not translated in English)
    Non ne ho più.I don't have any left.(literally, “I don't of it have any more.”)
* for this; of that; of these; of those, sometimes not translated in English
    Ho capito cos'ha fatto, ma non ne ho capito il motivo.I understood what he did, but I didn't understand the reason for that.
* intensive particle, used in forms of certain verbs suffixed with -ne, where it indicates a particular way of carrying out the verb's action
    Spalancò la porta e se ne andò tutta esultante.She slammed the door open, and left all cheerful.
    Se ne sta sdraiato per ore a non fare nulla.He just stays there lying down for hours, without doing anything.
* only used in forms of the verb of volerne (“to hold a grudge”)
    Non te ne vorrò.I won't hold a grudge against you.
* only used in forms of the verb of andarne (“to be at stake”)
    Ne va della tua vita.Your life is at stake.

##### Usage notes

* The pronoun ne stands for di + [pronoun], and can thus be a translation of “[preposition] + it/them” for any preposition that is translated as di in Italian.

##### See also

| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Combined | Disjunctive | Locative | Partitive |
| Singular | first | — | io | mi, m', -mi | mi, m', -mi | mi, m', -mi | me | me | — | — |
| Singular | second | — | tu | ti, t', -ti | ti, t', -ti | ti, t', -ti | te | te | — | — |
| Singular | third | m | lui | si$^2$, s', -si | lo, l', -lo | gli, -gli | glie, se$^2$ | lui, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| Singular | third | f | lei, Lei$^1$ | si$^2$, s', -si | la, La$^1$, l', L'$^1$, -la, -La$^1$ | le$^3$, Le$^1$, -le$^3$, -Le$^1$ | glie, se$^2$ | lei, Lei$^1$, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| Plural | first | — | noi | ci, c', -ci | ci, c', -ci | ci, c', -ci | ce | noi | — | — |
| Plural | second | — | voi, Voi$^4$ | vi, Vi$^4$, v', V'$^4$, -vi, -Vi$^4$ | vi, Vi$^4$, v', V'$^4$, -vi, -Vi$^4$ | vi, Vi$^4$, v', V'$^4$, -vi, -Vi$^4$ | ve | voi, Voi$^4$ | — | — |
| Plural | third | m | loro, Loro$^1$ | si, s', -si | li, Li$^1$, -li, -Li$^1$ | gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro$^1$ | glie, se | loro, Loro$^1$, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| Plural | third | f | loro, Loro$^1$ | si, s', -si | le, Le$^1$, -le, -Le$^1$ | gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro$^1$ | glie, se | loro, Loro$^1$, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| $^1$ | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. |
| $^2$ | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. |
| $^3$ | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. |
| $^4$ | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). |

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^{°°}$/ne/$^*$
* Rhymes: -e
* Hyphenation: ne
* This word triggers syntactic gemination of the following consonant, and may or may not block syntactic gemination of its initial consonant (contrast the pronominal usage above).

#### Contraction

ne
* Apocopic form of nel
    Massimo Troisi non ha vinto un oscar per la sua interpretazione ne Il postino.Massimo Troisi did not win an Oscar for his performance in Il Postino.

##### Usage notes

* The contraction ne is used where nel, nella, etc., would ordinarily be used, but cannot be because the article is part of the title of a film, book, etc.

##### See also

* de
* né

### Further reading

* ne$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* ne$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Japanese
### Romanization

ne
* The hiragana syllable ね (ne) or the katakana syllable ネ (ne) in Hepburn romanization.

## Kalasha
### Determiner

ne
* no

### Particle

ne
* no

## Kapampangan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈne/ [ˈnɛ]
* Hyphenation: ne

### Etymology 1

Contraction of na + ya.

#### Pronoun

ne
* blend of 3rd person singular possessive/ergative pronoun + 3rd person singular absolutive pronoun
    Ikit ne.S/he saw him/her.

### Etymology 2

Compare Tagalog 'no, Japanese な (na), ね (ne).

#### Particle

ne
* (informal) sentence-final particle indicating emotion or mild emphasis
    Nokarin ya kaya ne?Now, I wonder where is s/he?
* (tag question) sentence-final question marker particle indicating emphasis and asking for confirmation: right?; eh?; isn't it, innit?
    Mako naku ne?I'm leaving, ok?

#### Adverb

ne
* already; now (expresses the event when following a verb)
    Yari ne.Finished already.
* already; now (declares the event of action when following a verb in the past tense)
    Meko ne.s/he left already.
* already; now (suggests immediate or quick action when following the infinitive form and future tense of the verb)
    Papunta ne kanu.s/he said that s/he's coming already.

##### See also

* na

## Karaim
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *nē-.

### Pronoun

ne
* what

### References

* N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ne”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

## Karelian

Regional variants of ne :
| North Karelian (Viena) | ne |
| South Karelian (Tver) | ne |

### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nek. Cognates include Finnish ne and Estonian need.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnʲe/
* Hyphenation: ne

### Determiner

ne
* (South Karelian) those
* (North Karelian or dialectal) these, those (medial)

### Pronoun

ne
* (South Karelian) those
* (North Karelian or dialectal) these, those (medial)

#### Usage notes

* In North Karelian, ne is used to refer to objects that are far away from the speaker, but close to the addressee.

#### See also
### References

* A. V. Punzhina (1994) “ne”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
* P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “ne”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN
* Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “ne”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

## Ladin
### Adverb

ne
* not

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈneː/, [ˈneː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈnɛː]

### Etymology 1

From Old Latin ne (“not”), from Proto-Italic *nē, from the extension of Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”). Cognates include Proto-Germanic *ne (whence Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni) and Old English ne), Sanskrit न (ná), Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Russian не (ne), Lithuanian ne, Irish ní.

#### Adverb

nē (not comparable)
* no, not
** 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.10:ne Crustumini quidem atque Antemnates […] satis se inpigre moventthe Crustuminians and Antemnates did not move with enough energy
* + subjunctive, introduces a prohibition or negative command: do not, don’t
** c. 110 BCE – c. 25 BCE, Cornelius Nepos, On the Latin Historians II. Atticus 16.2.5:nē necesse habuerisdo not regard it as necessary
** 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.18.3:nē sīs admīrātusdo not be surprised
** 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.25.2:nē Apellae quidem dīxerisdo not tell Apella even
** 45 BCE, Cicero, De divinatione 2.127:hōc facitō; hōc nē fēceristhou shalt do this, thou shalt not do that
** c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.98:nē vōs quidem mortem timueritisnor must you fear death
* + future imperative, introduces a prohibition or negative command in general directions serving for all time, as precepts, statutes, and proverbs: do not, don’t
** c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.334:Boreā flante, nē arātō, sēmen nē iacitōwhen the north wind blows, do not plough, do not sow seed

##### Derived terms

* nē quidem (“not even”)

#### Conjunction

nē (+ subjunctive)
* that not, in order not to and similar; lest
    Vereor, nē videātur ōrātiō mea stulta.I fear lest my oration seem foolish.
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.11:nē quem post sē hostem reliqueretin order not to leave any enemy behind himself
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.10:sī reliquam partem hiemis ūnō locō legiōnēs continēret, nē stipendiāriīs Aeduōrum expugnātīs cūncta Gallia dēficeret[he feared] lest if he should confine his legions in one place for the remaining part of the winter, all Gaul would revolt when the stipendiaries of the Aedui were subdued
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.11:veritus nē noctū ex oppidō prōfugerenthe feared lest [the enemy] should escape by night

##### Usage notes

* Not to be confused with the affirmative particle ne (see Etymology 2).
* The adverb, in cases of prohibition, became obsolete in colloquial speech in late antiquity, being displaced by non, originally a solecism.

##### Derived terms

* nēve/neu
* nē forte
* nē quō (“to no place, nowhither”)
* nē quis
* neutiquam

##### Related terms

* -ne
* ne-, in-
* neque, nec
* nī
* nōn
* quīn
* sīn

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *né-h₁ (“that way, so”), which consists of *áno- (“yonder”, pronomial stem, distal) +‎ *-h₁ (modal and instrumental suffix). Cognate with Ancient Greek νή (nḗ, “yes, indeed”) and Proto-Germanic *-nā (emphatic suffix after adverbs) which features in Icelandic svona (“so”), hérna (“here”), and þarna (“there”). The same pronominal stem is also present in the words enim (“for; truly”), nempe (“indeed”), and nam (“for”).

#### Interjection

nē
* truly!, indeed!; only joined with personal pronouns and commonly connected with other affirmative particles
** 44 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Philippics :At enim te in disciplinam meam tradideras—nam ita dixisti—domum meam ventitaras. Ne tu, si id fecisses, melius famae, melius pudicitiae tuae consuluisses.You had however committed yourself to my instruction and frequented my house, or so you claimed. You would certainly have been more mindful of your virtue and reputation if you had!

### References

* ↑ Dunkel, George E. (2014) Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (Indogermanische Bibliothek. 2. Reihe: Wörterbücher) (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, →ISBN, pages 60, 62

## Latvian
### Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

### Pronunciation

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### Conjunction

ne
* not
    ne tikai ― not only
    ne visai ― not quite

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɛ/

### Interjection

ne
* no (used to show disagreement or negation)

## Livonian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne/

### Pronoun

ne
* they; nominative plural of tämā

## Luganda
### Conjunction

ne
* and (only used if the overall statement is grammatically positive)

#### See also

* na

#### References

The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 94.

## Mandarin
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Romanization

ne (ne$^5$ / ne$^0$, Zhuyin ˙ㄋㄜ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吶 / 呐
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呢
ne
* Nonstandard spelling of nē.
* Nonstandard spelling of né.
* Nonstandard spelling of nè.
* Nonstandard spelling of nê̄.

#### 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.

## Mezquital Otomi
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Otomi [Term?], from Proto-Otomian [Term?], from Proto-Oto-Pamean *neʔ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nè/

#### Verb

ne
* (trans) want

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Otomi *ne, from Proto-Otomian *ne, from Proto-Oto-Pamean *te/*ne, from Proto-Oto-Manguean *(Y)te(H)³.

#### Alternative forms

* né (obsolete)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /né/, /ně/

#### Noun

ne
* mouth
* snout
* edge (of a blade)
* bite, sting
* animals at the head of the herd

### References

* Andrews, Enriqueta (1950) Vocabulario otomí de Tasquillo, Hidalgo‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 19, 47, 74
* Hernández Cruz, Luis, Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)‎ (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 210

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

### Adverb

ne
* not

#### Usage notes

Immediately precedes the verb. Often found in combination with the synonymous niet or another negating adverb, which is placed elsewhere.

#### Alternative forms

* en

#### Descendants

* Dutch: n- (prefix)

### Further reading

* “ne (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* “ne (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “en (V)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page en
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “ne”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* ny, ni (rare)

### Etymology

From Old English ne, from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɛ/, /nə/

### Adverb

ne
* not (negates the accompanying verb)
    Þei ne bileveden hire nought. ― They didn't believe her.
** 13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Knight's Portrait" (line 70), The Canterbury Tales.
    He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde.
** 1481, William Caxton, Lyf of the Noble and Crysten Prynce, Charles the Grete:I ne entende but onely to reduce thauncyent ryme in to prose.I intend only to reduce the ancient rhyme into prose.
* not (to no degree, extent, or way)
    Þou ne art weyke. ― You aren't weak.

#### Usage notes

* Middle English lacks do-support. Instead, ne is simply used by itself: Puple deien, bot fame ne deieþ ("People die, but reputation does not die").
* Middle English has negative concord, so negatives don't cancel out another, unlike formal English or Latin. ne is often accompanied by other negatives rather than used alone. Double, triple, and quadruple negatives are common: I ne oght no man noght ("I haven't owed anything to anyone," literally "I not owed no one nothing").
* ne usually immediately precedes the verb; compare nought / nat, which usually follows it.

#### Related terms

* never
* non
* nought

#### Descendants

* English: ne (obsolete)
* Scots: ne (obsolete)

#### References

* “ne, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Conjunction

ne
* nor (and not, or (not), not)
* lest (in case, before)
* than (introducing a basis of comparison)

#### Usage notes

* ne can contract with certain words that follow it, such as ne was → nas. This is optional, so forms like ne was are possible.
* ne... ne... is often found in correlative constructions, with the meaning of not... or...; this is comparable to modern English neither... (n)or....

#### Descendants

* English: ne (obsolete)
* Scots: ne (obsolete)

#### References

* “ne, conj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* “ne, conj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Middle French
### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* n'

#### Adverb

ne
* not (used to negate a verb)
** 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 22:Ha ha pourdieu franc chevalier et preux ne me occisez mieHa! For the love of God honest and valiant knight, don't kill me!
** 1530, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:et ne m'advint oncques de mentir ou asseurer chose que ne feust veritableIt never happened to me to lie or to assure someone of something that wasn't truthful
** 1562, Henry IV of France, Lettres Missives:Catherine de Médicis, ne tarda pas à faire venir auprès de lui, en 1561, sa femme et ses enfants.Catherine of Medicis did not hesitate to bring to him, in 1561, his wife and his children

##### Usage notes

* As in modern French, may be used in combination with another adverb, such as ne... iamais, ne... pas, ne... gaire, ne... mie, ne... oncques, ne... poin(c)t and ne... rien(s), but such an adverb is not required.

### Etymology 2

See ny

#### Conjunction

ne
* Alternative form of ny (“neither; nor”)

## Mohawk
### Article

ne
* the

## Negerhollands
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɛ/

### Verb

ne
* take

### References

* Language Contact in the Danish West Indies (2012, →ISBN

## Nheengatu
### Etymology

From Old Tupi ne. Cognate with Guaraní nde.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ne]
* This entry needs an audio pronunciation. If you are a native speaker with a microphone, please record this word. The recorded pronunciation will appear here when it's ready.
* Hyphenation: ne
* Rhymes: -e

### Pronoun

ne
* (second-class) second-person singular personal pronoun (you, your)
    Ne akanhemu reikú nhaãsé ne kirá reikú.You are scared because you are fat.
    Aé uputari upitá ne irũmu.He wants to stay with you.
    Ne manha uwiké uka pisasú upé.Your mother enters the new house.

#### Usage notes

* As a second-class pronoun, ne is used as the subject of a sentence when its verb is a second-class one (those verbs are sometimes referred to as adjectives). The personal pronoun ne is also used when governed by any postposition with the exception of arama and supé. Finally, ne is used as a possessive pronoun as well.

### See also

Nheengatu personal pronouns :
| singular | first-class pronoun | second-class pronoun |
| first-person | ixé | se |
| second-person | indé | ne |
| third-person | aé | i |
| plural | first-class pronoun | second-class pronoun |
| first-person | yandé | yané |
| second-person | penhẽ | pe |
| third-person | aintá (or tá) | aintá (or tá) |

### References

* AVILA, Marcel Twardowsky (2021) Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, page 564
* NAVARRO, Eduardo de Almeida (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica, 2nd edition, →ISBN, pages 11 and 106

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *na, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *na, from Proto-Indo-European *ne. Related to na.

### Adverb

ne
* not
    Ez ne kurd im.I'm not Kurdish.

### Interjection

ne
* no

## Northern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

### Adjective

-ne
* four

#### Inflection
## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* near m pl

### Etymology

From Old Norse nið f, possibly from Proto-Germanic *nidwō (“sinking; downfall”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /neː/

### Noun

ne n (plural neet)
* a lunar phase of an old moon, i.e. period of time in which the moon is waning
    Antonym: ny

#### Derived terms

* i ny og ne
* nemåne

### References

* “ne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* en

## Old Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈnɛ/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈnɛ/

### Particle

ne
* Negation particle; no, not

#### Descendants

* Czech: ne

### References

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “ne”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Old Dutch
### Alternative forms

* ne- (more common prefix variant)

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“no, not”). Cognate with Old English ne (“not”), Old Frisian ne (“not”), Old Saxon ne (“not”) and Old High German ni (“not”).

### Adverb

ne
* not
    Synonyms: niewiht, ne-
** c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen [The Old Middle and Old Low Franconian psalms and glosses]:
    Sālig man thēr niweht vuor in gerēde ungenēthero, inde in wege sundigero ne stunt, inde in stuole sufte ne saz.Graceful is the man who did not go to the trial of the godless, and did not stand on the road of sin, and did not sit in the seat of perdition.

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: ne
** Dutch: n-

### Further reading

* “ne”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne/

### Adverb

ne
* not
** 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 8‎:Iċ… hlūde ċirme, healde mīne wīsan, hlēoþre ne mīþe,…I… loudly cry out, hold my tone, don't hide a sound,…

#### Usage notes

* Old English does not have do-support. Instead, ne is simply used by itself: Menn sweltaþ, ac hlīsa ne swilt ("People die, but reputation does not die").
* Ne is placed immediately before the finite verb: Sēo lǣrestre ne meahte furðum mīnes naman ġemunan (“The teacher could not even remember my name”). It only goes before infinitives on the rare occasion when there is no finite verb to negate: Iċ wēne þæt þū sċyle forlǣtan and eft ne cuman ("I think you should leave and not come back"), Uton ne forspillan nāne tīd mā ("Let's not waste any more time").
* Ne negates verbs. Other parts of speech are negated with nā: Earg iċ eom, nā lǣwa ("I'm a coward, not a traitor"), Iċ hīe fræġn "Hū wæs þīn færeld?" and hēo cwæþ "Nā yfel" ("I asked her 'How was your trip?' and she said "Not bad'"). Nā is also used when the verb is only implied: Ne rēċe iċ hwæðer mē hwā ġelīefe þē nā ("I don't care if anyone believes me or not"). Nā also negates tō-infinitives and participles: Þās þing ġedafenode tō dōnne and þā ōðru nā tō forlǣtenne ("It would have made sense to do these things and not to neglect the others").
* Ne and its accompanying verb often come at the beginning of a sentence: Ne meahte nān mann tecnāwan hwelcre mægðe hē wǣre ("Nobody could tell what tribe he was," literally "Couldn't nobody tell what tribe he was").
* Old English has negative concord, meaning one negative does not cancel out another. Double, triple, and quadruple negatives are very common: Ne sċolde iċ nǣfre nānum menn nāwiht ("I've never owed anything to anyone," literally "I never not owed no one nothing").
* In a few verbs beginning with a vowel, h, or w, ne actually fuses with the verb, creating nesan (“to not be”), nabban (“to not have”), nyllan (“to not want”), nytan (“to not know”), and nāgan (“to not own”). In the West Saxon dialect (the dialect of most surviving texts and sometimes referred to as "standard" Old English), the contracted forms are the norm, while in other dialects the uncontracted forms ne wesan, ne habban, etc. are also common.

### Conjunction

ne
* (in negative phrases) or, and not (optionally translated as "nor")
    Þurh þissa þinga ġehāt sind cumene tō anwealde unmenn. Ac hīe lēogaþ, ne ġelǣstaþ hīe þæt ġehāt, ne hīe nǣfre nyllaþ!By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie, they do not fulfill that promise, and they never will!
** c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
    Sē enġel him cwæþ tō, "Ne cyss þū mīne fēt, ne þū mē ne hrepe."The angel said to him, "Don't kiss my feet, and don't touch me."
** late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy
    Nān mann hine ne cann, ne hē nānne mann ne furðum þæt ġeþēode.No one knows him, and he doesn't know anyone or even the language.
* ne... ne... is used to mean "[not...] or..." (optionally translated as "neither... nor...")
    Iċ næbbe ne frīend ne fīend. Wrace iċ hæbbe.I don't have friends or enemies. I have revenge.
** c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice
    Neutrum is nāþor cyn, ne werlīces ne wīflīces...Neuter is neither gender, neither masculine, nor feminine...

#### Usage notes

* In the phrase "[not...] or...", ne is often used consecutively for "or", stacking with the ne negating the following verb: Iċ nāt ne ne rēċe hwelċes cynnes fugol hit sīe, hit is mīn frēond ("I don't know or care what kind of bird it is, it's my friend").

#### Descendants

* Middle English: ne, ny, ni (rare)
** English: ne (obsolete)
** Scots: ne (obsolete)

## Old French
### Etymology 1

From Latin nōn.

#### Alternative forms

* nen (poetic, before vowels)

#### Adverb

ne
* not; used to form negative constructions

##### Descendants

* French: ne

### Etymology 2

From Latin nec.

#### Conjunction

ne
* neither (not one or the other)
** c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:A lor seignor gaires n’antendent Ne les serors ne li cinc frereThey didn't listen to their father Neither the sisters nor the five brothers

##### Descendants

* French: ni

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* ni

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”). Cognates include Old English ne and Old Saxon ne.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne/

### Adverb

ne
* not

#### Descendants

* North Frisian:
    Heligoland: ni

### Conjunction

ne
* nor

### Particle

ne
* no

#### Synonyms

* nā

### References

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

## Old Saxon
### Alternative forms

* ni

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ne.

### Adverb

ne
* not

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: ne, en

## Old Tupi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɛ/
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Hyphenation: ne

### Pronoun

ne
* (rare) Alternative form of nde
** 1555, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter X, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, published 1595, page 41v:Nérúbamo xerecóu[Ne rubamo xe rekóû]I am your father(literally, “In the condition of your father I am”)

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀦𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* ने (Devanagari script)
* নে (Bengali script)
* නෙ (Sinhalese script)
* နေ or ၼေ (Burmese script)
* เน (Thai script)
* ᨶᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ເນ (Lao script)
* នេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄚𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Adjective

ne
* accusative plural masculine of na (“those”)

### Pronoun

ne
* accusative plural of na (“them, those”)

## Phuthi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

### Adjective

-ne
* four

#### Inflection
## Polish
### Pronunciation

* (Lesser Poland):
** (Podegrodzie) IPA: /ˈnɛ/
** (Przemyśl) IPA: [ˈnɛ]

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

ne
* (Przemyśl) used to call cows and calves

### Etymology 2

See na.

#### Interjection

ne
* (Podegrodzie) Alternative form of na (“take it”)

### Further reading

* Aleksander Saloni (1899) “ne”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 241
* Karol Mátyás (1891) “ne”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 325

## Rawang

Picture dictionary :
ne
dv̀nggvng
nezø̀m
netong
ne
shvná
shvnávn
dvtøp
mvká
nònggøp
nítǿl
mvká :

### Noun

ne
* eye.

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* нє (pre-1860s Cyrillic form)

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin nīs, from Latin nos. Compare nă (old form) and Aromanian nã.

### Pronunciation

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

### Pronoun

ne (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of noi)
* (direct object, first-person plural) us
    El ne urmează.He's following us.

#### Related terms

* noi (stressed accusative)

### Pronoun

ne (unstressed dative and reflexive form of noi)
* (indirect object) (to) us
    Ele ne dau cadouri.They give us presents.

#### Related terms

* nouă (stressed dative)

#### See also

* ne-
* vă
* mă
* te
* se

## Saterland Frisian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nə/
* Hyphenation: ne

### Article

ne
* Form of of n used before feminine adjectives
    Dät is n Gous. Ne grieze Gous. ― That's a goose. A grey goose.

## Scots
### Etymology

From Middle English ne, from Old English ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /neɪ/, /nɛ/, /nə/, /n(ː)/

### Adverb

ne
* (archaic, rare) Not.
    Ne look at the sky, when ye tread bumpy roads.(please add an English translation of this usage example) (A Northern English folk saying)
** 1513, Gavin Douglas, The Aeneid (translation):To suffir exile he said that he ne couth.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1513, Gavin Douglas, The Aeneid (translation):I ne ask na land, nor realm.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Conjunction

ne
* (archaic, rare) Nor.
    Ne mother, ne father, ne friends, ne foes ne-knew what had worthen of him.(please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Usage notes

* Ne is a negative particle and it is used preverbally, i.e. it is placed directly before a verb, for example,ː"What haps might chance me I ne knew" (William Fowler (makar), 1590) and "To suffer exile he said that he ne couth" (Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid, 1513). Now archaic and chiefly dialectal, it is still understood and used by a few rural speakers in Scotland and Northern England.
* As a conjunction, it is placed immediately before the word it negates as inː ne mickle, ne little; Twas ne man, ne woman.. ne beast; ne rich, ne poor, ne bold, ne meek, ne stong, ne weak can escape God's wrath.
* In urban areas and cities became displaced by na or nae.

#### Further reading

* “ne”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne/

### Particle

ne (Cyrillic spelling не)
* not (denoting negation)
    ne znam ― I don't know
    on je ne samo darovit, već i jako marljiv ― he is not only talented, but also very industrious
    htio-ne htio ― whether you want it or not
    da ne spavaš? / ne spavaš li? / zar ne spavaš? ― aren't you sleeping?
    ne mogu, a da ne… ― I cannot but…
    reći ne ― to say no; refuse, decline
    ne manje nego/od… ― no less than…
    ne doći ― to fail to come, not come
    … Zar ne? ― … Aren't you? (Isn't it?, Do you?, Don't you?)
    neću ― I won't

### Interjection

ne (Cyrillic spelling не)
* no
    Jesi li demokrat? Ne! ― Are you a democrat? No!

#### Synonyms

* jok (dialectal)

#### Antonyms

* da

## Skou
### Pronoun

ne
* we
    Ne fu.We saw her.

### References

* Donohue, Mark. A Grammar of the Skou Language of New Guinea (2004).

## Slovak
### Alternative forms

* ich

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɲe]

### Pronoun

ne
* accusative of ony

#### Usage notes

Used after prepositions.

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɛ́/, /nɛ/

### Particle

nȅ
* not (negates meaning of verb)
* no (expresses disapproval, disagreement)

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “no”): dà, já

### Further reading

* “ne”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

### Adjective

-ne
* four

#### Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

## Sumerian
### Romanization

ne
* Romanization of 𒉈

## Swazi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

### Adjective

-ne
* four

#### Inflection
## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* ane
* hana
* hane — Rizal, Quezon
* hani

### Etymology

Compare Ilocano ne, Kapampangan ne, and Japanese ね (ne).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈne/ [ˈn̪ɛ]
* Rhymes: -e
* Syllabification: ne

### Particle

ne (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒ) (Bataan, Nueva Ecija, tag question)
* Sentence-final question marker particle indicating emphasis and asking for confirmation: right?; eh?; isn't it, innit?
    Synonyms: 'no, 'di ba, ano
    Tapos magkikita tayo sa bahay ni Aling Neneng, ne?Afterwards, we'll see each other at Ms. Neneng's house, am I right?
    Maligo ka na, ne?Take a bath, alright?

#### See also

* ha

### Further reading

* “hane”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 298.
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
* Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 292: “Entiendes) Hani (pc) [aba naman] cundi mo aco caling̃ain hani? que ſera demi ſino tienes cuenta comigo entiendes? cun baga maymaalaala ca hani? ſi ſete acordare algo entiendes?”

### Anagrams

* en

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /neː/

### Determiner

ne
* (proximal) this, these
    namo ne ― this chicken

### Pronoun

ne
* (demonstrative) this
    ngori tomau ne ― I want this
    ne foke ― this is a cockroach

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɛ/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish نه (ne, “what, whatever, how”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ne, “what”), from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”).
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰤𐰀 (n²a /⁠ne⁠/, “what, which”), Karakhanid نا (ne), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ne), Azerbaijani nə, Salar neñ, Bashkir ни (ni), Chuvash мӗн (mĕn) (metathesis < *ne-me), Kazakh не (ne), Khakas ниме (nime), Kyrgyz не (ne), Tatar ни (ni), Turkmen nǟmä, Tuvan чүү (çüü), Uyghur نېمە (nëme), Uzbek nima.

#### Pronoun

ne
* what
    Ne istiyorsun? ― What do you want?
* whatever
    Ne istersen yaparım. ― I will do whatever you want.

##### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
ne
neler
definite accusative
neyi
neleri
dative
neye
nelere
locative
nede
nelerde
ablative
neden
nelerden
genitive
neyin
nelerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
neyim
nelerim
2nd singular
neyin
nelerin
3rd singular
neyi
neleri
1st plural
neyimiz
nelerimiz
2nd plural
neyiniz
neleriniz
3rd plural
neleri
neleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
neyimi
nelerimi
2nd singular
neyini
nelerini
3rd singular
neyini
nelerini
1st plural
neyimizi
nelerimizi
2nd plural
neyinizi
nelerinizi
3rd plural
nelerini
nelerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
neyime
nelerime
2nd singular
neyine
nelerine
3rd singular
neyine
nelerine
1st plural
neyimize
nelerimize
2nd plural
neyinize
nelerinize
3rd plural
nelerine
nelerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
neyimde
nelerimde
2nd singular
neyinde
nelerinde
3rd singular
neyinde
nelerinde
1st plural
neyimizde
nelerimizde
2nd plural
neyinizde
nelerinizde
3rd plural
nelerinde
nelerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
neyimden
nelerimden
2nd singular
neyinden
nelerinden
3rd singular
neyinden
nelerinden
1st plural
neyimizden
nelerimizden
2nd plural
neyinizden
nelerinizden
3rd plural
nelerinden
nelerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
neyimin
nelerimin
2nd singular
neyinin
nelerinin
3rd singular
neyinin
nelerinin
1st plural
neyimizin
nelerimizin
2nd plural
neyinizin
nelerinizin
3rd plural
nelerinin
nelerinin
Predicative forms
singular
plural
1st singular
neyim
nelerim
2nd singular
nesin
nelersin
3rd singular
ne nedir
neler nelerdir
1st plural
neyiz
neleriz
2nd plural
nesiniz
nelersiniz
3rd plural
neler
nelerdir :

##### Related terms

* nasıl
* ne denli
* ne gibi
* nece
* neden
* neli
* nere
* nesi
* nesiz
* nesne
* netekim
* neyse
* nice
* niçin
* nitelik
* niye

#### Adverb

ne
* what, how, such
    Ne güzel! ― How beautiful!
    Ne güzel bir gün! ― What a beautiful day!
* Used as an intensifier to express surprise, astonishment, together with expressions like be!, ha!.
    Ne osurdun be! ― You farted such (that probably the whole world heard it).

### Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish نه (ne, “neither; nor”), from Persian نه (na). Cognate to Old English ne (“not”).

#### Conjunction

ne ... ne ...
* neither; nor
    Ne bu ne şu ― Neither this nor that

##### Usage notes

* Not used alone but rather as ne...ne..., the way it is used is directly copied from Persian نه...نه...(“neither; nor”).

##### Antonyms

* ... de... de, ... da... da

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

ne
* The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*nē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

## Tuvaluan
### Particle

ne
* past tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

## Unami
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [nə]

### Pronoun

në
* that (inanimate)

### See also

$^1$ Inaccessible to speaker, deceased

## Ura (Vanuatu)
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne/, [ne]

### Noun

ne
* water
* river

### Further reading

* Terry Crowley, Ura: A Disappearing Language of Southern Vanuatu (1999)

## Votic
### Pronunciation

* (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA: /ˈne/, [ˈne]
* Rhymes: -e
* Hyphenation: ne

### Pronoun

ne
* Alternative form of need

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /neː/

### Noun

ne
* Nasal mutation of de.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## West Makian
### Etymology

Likely cognate with Ternate ne (“this”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /n̪e/

### Determiner

ne
* (proximal) this, these
    Synonyms: mene, nema
    Antonym: ma
    pala ne ilamo ― this house is large
    nudupe de ngeu ne ― throw away these leftovers

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

## Xhosa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

### Adjective

-ne
* four

#### Inflection
## Yup'ik
### Noun

ne (absolutive ena)
* house

## Zou
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ne˧/

### Noun

ne
* lip

### Verb

ne
* (transitive) to eat

#### Derived terms

* ene

### References

* Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, pages 40-41

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

### Adjective

-ne
* four

#### Derived terms

* isine

### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “-ne”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-ne”