ene

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Asturian

Noun

ene f (plural enes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter N.

Basque

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Pronoun

ene

  1. genitive of ni
    Synonym: nire

Etymology 2

Interjection

ene

  1. oh my

Etymology 3

Noun

ene inan

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter N.
Declension
Declension of ene (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive ene enea eneak
ergative enek eneak eneek
dative eneri eneari eneei
genitive eneren enearen eneen
comitative enerekin enearekin eneekin
causative enerengatik enearengatik eneengatik
benefactive enerentzat enearentzat eneentzat
instrumental enez eneaz eneez
inessive enetan enean eneetan
locative enetako eneko eneetako
allative enetara enera eneetara
terminative enetaraino eneraino eneetaraino
directive enetarantz enerantz eneetarantz
destinative enetarako enerako eneetarako
ablative enetatik enetik eneetatik
partitive enerik — —
prolative enetzat — —
See also

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

ene f (plural enes)

  1. (Valencia) Alternative form of ena

Further reading

Danish

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Etymology 1

From Old Norse eini, related to einn (“one”).

Alternative forms

Adjective

ene

  1. alone
  2. lonely

Pronoun

ene

  1. definite of en

Etymology 2

From Old Norse einir.

Noun

ene c (singular definite enen, plural indefinite ener)

  1. (botany) juniper
Declension
Declension of ene
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ene enen ener enerne
genitive enes enens eners enernes
Synonyms

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Dutch êne.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.nə/
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  • Hyphenation: ene
  • Rhymes: -eːnə

Pronoun

ene

  1. one (contrasting with another)
    Wil je die ene, of die andere?
    Do you want that one, or that other one?
  2. one, a certain (followed by a name, possibly with a title or honorific)
    Het geval zou onderzocht zijn door ene Professor Armenio Sibello die zou hebben vastgesteld dat het niet langs normale, psychologische weg verklaard kon worden.
    The case was reportedly examined by a certain Professor Armenio Sibello who allegedly had determined that it could not be explained in a normal, psychological way.

Article

ene

  1. (dated) (archaic) nominative/accusative feminine of een; a.

Inflection

Dutch indefinite article
Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative een ene een
Genitive eens ener eens
Dative enen ener enen
Accusative enen ene een

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

en +‎ -e

Pronunciation

Adverb

ene

  1. within, used with "de"
    Ene de ĝiaj municipaj limoj, troviĝas la Monaĥejo de El Escorial kaj la monumento Valo de la Falintoj.
    Within its municipal limits are found the Monastery of The Escorial and the monument Valley of the Fallen.
  2. inwards

Antonyms

Ewe

Ewe cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : ene
    Ordinal : enelia

Numeral

ene

  1. four

Galician

Pronunciation

Noun

ene m (plural enes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter N.

Low German

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Article

ene f (indefinite article)

  1. inflected form of en

Marshallese

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

ene

  1. an atoll islet
  2. an island
  3. land
  4. directional, enclitic, islandward or shoreward

References

Middle English

Middle English numbers (edit)
1 2  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: oon, oo
    Ordinal: first
    Adverbial: ene, enes, ones
    Multiplier: sengle
    Distributive: sengle

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English ǣne, originally the instrumental singular of ān (“one”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

ene

  1. once (one time)
    Synonyms: enes, ones

References

Nias

Noun

ene (mutated form nene)

  1. sand
  2. beach

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 61.

North Wahgi

Noun

ene

  1. sun

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Definite form of en (“one”)

Determiner

ene

  1. one
    den ene etter den andre - one after another / one after the other

Derived terms

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: e‧ne

Noun

ene m (plural enes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter N.
    Synonym: nê
  2. (informal) a often large, unspecified number
    Synonym: dozen
    Tenho ene coisas para fazer hoje! ― I have dozens of things to do today!

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

Adjective

ene (invariable)

  1. (colloquial) a huge amount of, lots of, many

Derived terms

Adverb

ene

  1. (colloquial) a lot

Noun

ene f (plural enes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter N.

Further reading

Swedish

Pronoun

ene

  1. one; masculine definite of en
    den ene mannen sade till den andre
    one man said to the other

Noun

ene n

  1. wood of juniper (en)

Declension

Declension of ene 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative ene enet — —
Genitive enes enets — —

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish ene, the Spanish name of the letter N/n.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔene/,
  • Hyphenation: e‧ne

Noun

ene (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜈᜒ)

  1. (historical) The name of the Latin-script letter N/n, in the Abecedario.
    Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) en, (in the Abakada alphabet) na

Further reading

  • “ene”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tocharian B

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én, the same source as eneṃ (“inside”).

Preposition

ene

  1. in

Derived terms

  • enestai (“in secret, secretly”)

Further reading

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ene”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN

Turkish

Noun

ene

  1. dative singular of en

Umbundu

Pronoun

ene

  1. you (second-person plural pronoun)

See also

Umbundu personal pronouns
singular plural
first-person ame etu
second-person ove ene
third-person eye ovo

Venda

Pronoun

ene

  1. he/she; him/her; third-person singular pronoun.

West Makian

Etymology

Possibly related to the stem found in Ternate ngone.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ene (possessive prefix nV)

  1. first-person plural inclusive pronoun, we
    ene unge ― we three; the three of us

See also

West Makian personal pronouns
independent possessive prefix
1st person singular de ti
2nd person singular ni ni
3rd person singular me mVan., dVinan.
1st person plural inclusive ene nV
1st person plural exclusive imi mi
2nd person plural ini fi
3rd person plural eme di

References

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

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ône (“to see”).

Pronunciation

Verb

ene

  1. (transitive) to see

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ene”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ene:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 315
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ene-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Zou

Etymology

From e- +‎ ne (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ene

  1. eater

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 81
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