nê

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ne"

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans nè, probably short for newaar (“isn't that true?”), colloquial variant of nie waar.

Adverb

nê

1. (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

• -en, en-, en, EN, En

Eastern Maninkakan

Alternative scripts

• ߣߋ (nko)

Pronoun

nê

1. (emphatic) I, me, my

   Synonym: ń

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nivem.

Verb

nê f (plural nês) (ORB, broad)

1. snow

References

• neige in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• nê in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• 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 [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

Romanization

nê

1. 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.

Paicî

Noun

nê

1. night

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ne˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nej˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [nej˧˧]

Noun

nê

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Adjective

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Zazaki

Particle

nê

1. no, nope

Antonyms

• e