네

• IPA^(key): /ne̞/

See Korean 네 (ne).

네 (ne)

1. four

See Korean 내 (nae).

네 (ne)

1. smoke

• “네” in Jeju's culture and language, Digital museum.

First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 迺 (Yale: *nay).

In the hangul script, first attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 네〯 (Yale: něy).

Beyond Middle Korean, the reconstruction of the ancestral Koreanic root for "four" is difficult. See a list of relevant attestations and forms in Appendix:Historical Koreanic numerals#Four.

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  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

네 • (ne)

1. (native numeral) four (of something)

   학생 네 명 ― haksaeng ne myeong ― four students

   비둘기 네 마리 ― bidulgi ne mari ― four pigeons

   네 개의 그림이 있습니다. ― Ne gae-ui geurim-i itseumnida. ― There are four pictures.

In modern Korean, numbers are usually written in Arabic numerals.

The Korean language has two sets of numerals: a native set of numerals inherited from Old Korean, and a Sino-Korean set which was borrowed from Middle Chinese in the first millennium C.E.

Native classifiers take native numerals.

• 개 한 마리 (gae han mari, “one dog”, native numeral)
• 나무 두 그루 (namu du geuru, “two trees”, native numeral)

Some Sino-Korean classifiers take native numerals, others take Sino-Korean numerals, while yet others take both.

• 종이 두 장(張) (jong'i du jang, “two sheets of paper”, native numeral)
• 이 분(分) (i bun, “two minutes”, Sino-Korean numeral)
• 서른/삼십 명(名) (seoreun/samsip myeong, “thirty people”, both sets possible)

Recently loaned classifiers generally take Sino-Korean numerals.

• 일 킬로미터 (il killomiteo, “one kilometer”, Sino-Korean numeral)

For many terms, a native numeral has a quantifying sense, whereas a Sino-Korean numeral has a sense of labeling.

• 세 반(班) (se ban, “three school classes”, native numeral)
• 삼 반(班) (sam ban, “Class Number Three”, Sino-Korean numeral)

When used in isolation, native numerals refer to objects of that number and are used in counting and quantifying, whereas Sino-Korean numerals refer to the numbers in a more mathematical sense.

• 하나만 더 주세요 (hana-man deo juse-yo, “Could you give me just one more, please”, native numeral)
• 일 더하기 일은? (il deohagi ir-eun?, “What's one plus one?”, Sino-Korean numeral)

While older stages of Korean had native numerals up to the thousands, native numerals currently exist only up to ninety-nine, and Sino-Korean is used for all higher numbers. There is also a tendency—particularly among younger speakers—to uniformly use Sino-Korean numerals for the higher tens as well, so that native numerals such as 일흔 (ilheun, “seventy”) or 아흔 (aheun, “ninety”) are becoming less common.

Probably from the same source as 예 (ye), plausibly *녜 (*nye) (apparently not directly attested).

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네 • (ne)

1. (polite) yes

   네, 알겠습니다. ― Ne, al-get-seumnida. ― Yes, I understand.

• Korean has a number of words for "yes". 예 (ye) is highly polite and formal, appropriate in an interview; 네 (ne) is polite but less formal, appropriate in a conversation with parents; and 응 (eung) and 어 (eo) are plain and non-formal, appropriate in a conversation with friends.

nominative

From Middle Korean 네〯 (ně-y).

Equivalent to a contraction of 너 (neo, “you”) +‎ 이 (-i, nominative case marker), which is no longer grammatically accepted.

genitive

From Middle Korean 네 (nèy).

Equivalent to a contraction of 너 (neo, “you”) +‎ 의 (-ui, genitive case marker).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
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네 • (ne)

1. Form of 너 (neo, “you”):
   1. Only used in 네가 (nega): the nominative form of 너 (neo, “you”).
   2. your; genitive of 너 (neo, “you”).

• Usually pronounced 니 (ni) to avoid homophony with 내 (nae, “I, me; my”). The 네 (ne) pronunciation is still used in reading literature, songs, etc.
• (nominative): 너가 (neo-ga) is increasingly common.
• (genitive): 너 (neo) used attributively, without any genitive marking, is also common.

Related to 누구 (nugu). Possibly descended from 뉘〯 (Yale: nwǔy).

네 • (ne)

1. (Russia) who, whom
   • 2015 February 18, 신 크세이냐 본서너브나 [sin keuseinya bonseoneobeuna], “내 덕에 먹고 산다 [nae deoge meokgo sanda]”, in 한국구비문학대계 [han'gukgubimunhakdaegye]‎, 우즈베키스탄 타쉬켄트 이크마을 [ujeubekiseutan taswikenteu ikeuma'eul]:

     야 너는 네 덕에 사는가?

     ya neo-neun ne deog-e sa-neun'ga?

     Hey, thanks to who is it that you live well?