nê
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ne"
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Afrikaans nè, probably short for newaar (“isn't that true?”), colloquial variant of nie waar.
Adverb
[edit]nê
- (South Africa, colloquial) As interrogative particle: "isn't that the case?"; also used with emphatic effect.
- 1900, Harold Blore, An Imperial Light Horseman:
- Then you are not come as a recruit to our ranks, but have already ducked your head to a bullet, nê?
- 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 21:
- No, we like this place, exotic for us whites, nê.
Anagrams
[edit]Eastern Maninkakan
[edit]Alternative scripts
[edit]- ߣߋ (nko)
Pronoun
[edit]nê
Franco-Provençal
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]nê f (plural nês) (ORB, broad)
References
[edit]- neige in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- nê in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
Further information
[edit]- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 378: “la neve” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 903: “la neige” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nĭx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 156
Mandarin
[edit]Romanization
[edit]nê
- Nonstandard spelling of nê̄.
Usage notes
[edit]- 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.
Paicî
[edit]Noun
[edit]nê
Vietnamese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nê
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Adjective
[edit]nê
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Zazaki
[edit]Particle
[edit]nê
Antonyms
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- English lemmas
- English adverbs
- English terms spelled with Ê
- English terms spelled with ◌̂
- South African English
- English colloquialisms
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- Eastern Maninkakan lemmas
- Eastern Maninkakan pronouns
- Franco-Provençal terms inherited from Latin
- Franco-Provençal terms derived from Latin
- Franco-Provençal lemmas
- Franco-Provençal nouns
- Franco-Provençal countable nouns
- Franco-Provençal feminine nouns
- ORB, broad
- Hanyu Pinyin
- Mandarin non-lemma forms
- Mandarin nonstandard forms
- Paicî lemmas
- Paicî nouns
- pri:Times of day
- pri:Night
- pri:Time
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese nouns
- Vietnamese adjectives
- Zazaki lemmas
- Zazaki particles