icke

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See also: Icke

German

Alternative forms

  • ick (conjunctive)

Etymology

Borrowed from Low German ick, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪkə/
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Pronoun

icke (disjunctive)

  1. (Berlin) I, me
    Als wie icke?
    Do you mean me?

Middle Dutch

Pronoun

icke

  1. (poetic) Alternative form of ic

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ækki, ække, ikke, originally the nominative neuter of ængin (“no one, nobody”). Related to Danish ikke, Norwegian Bokmål ikke and Norwegian Nynorsk ikkje.

Pronunciation

Adverb

icke (not comparable)

  1. (slightly formal or dated outside compounds) not; negation of the verb in a sentence.
    Synonyms: inte, (formal, poetic) ej
    Jag trodde det skulle finnas glass kvar i frysen, men icke
    I thought there would be ice cream left in the freezer, but no (somewhat jocular formality – inte is unidiomatic here)

Derived terms

Noun

icke n (uncountable)

  1. (logic) the Boolean function "not"

Declension

Declension of icke 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative icke icket — —
Genitive ickes ickets — —

References

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