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Cahuilla
Prefix
ne-
- I. First person singular pronoun added to a verb to show its subject.
- My. First person singular possessive pronoun added to a noun to show its possessor.
Chuukese
Prefix
ne-
- to look
Czech
Pronunciation
Prefix
ne-
- used to negate verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Akin to un-, non-, im-, ir-
- Mám hlad. (“I am hungry.”) → Nemám hlad. (“I am not hungry.”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- ne- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Prefix
ne-
- non- (Used to negate some words.)
Usage notes
- ne- as an affix is less common than mal-, and is sometimes synonymous with it, but it can be used to signify the negative or absence of the root when this is different from its opposite, or when the root does not have a meaningful opposite. For example, neamiko (“non-friend”) suggests a stranger or acquaintance, as opposed to malamiko (“enemy”). For another example, nevidebla (“invisible”) is more idiomatic than *malvidebla because the latter would suggest something that one can "unsee" (kiun oni povas *malvidi), rather than something that cannot be seen (kiu ne estas videbla).
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See also
Ido
Etymology
Prefix form of ne.
Pronunciation
Prefix
ne-
- Used to negate verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; non-, un-, in-, im-, ir-.
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Old Latin ne (“not”) in compositions.
Pronunciation
Prefix
ne-
- absolutely negates the principal meaning
- ne- (“not”) + sciō (“I know”) → nesciō (“I don't know”)
Quotations
"Nōmen nesciō" (N.N.) – I don't know the name, John Doe
Derived terms
Latvian
Etymology
From the same stem as the general negative particle nē (“no”).
Prefix
ne-
- Used on all verb forms to form the negative version of that form (runāju (“I speak”), nerunāju (“I don't speak”)), as well as on nouns and adjectives to indicate negation (like Latin in-, im-; English un-; or Russian не- (ne-)).
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Lithuanian
Etymology
From the same stem as the general negative particle ne (“no”).
Prefix
ne-
- Used on all verb forms to form the negative version of that form, as well as on nouns, adjectives and adverbs to indicate negation.
- ne- + tvarkà 'order' → netvarkà 'disorder, mess'
- ne- + ramùs 'calm' → neramùs 'restless, uneasy'
- ne- + geraĩ 'well' → negeraĩ 'badly'
- ne- + norė́ti 'want' → nenorė́ti 'not want'
Derived terms
Northern Kurdish
Prefix
ne-
- forms the negative subjunctive mood of verbs.
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“no, not”). Cognate with Old English ne- (“not”).
Prefix
ne-
- not
- nederen ― to not hurt
- nedrādan ― to not fear
- negeron ― to not covet
- neduon ― to not do
- nequām ― I/he didn't come
- newitan ― to not know
- nēn ― none
- nio ― never
- → niewiht ― not, nothing
- newara ― however
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“no, not”). Akin to Old English ne (“not”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
ne-
- not
- neom ― am not
- næs ― was not
- nǣron ― were not
- nic ― not me
- nǣniġ ― no one, none, not any, no (adj.)
- nealles ― not at all, by no means
- nefne ― unless, except, not even
- nabban ― to not have
- nāgan ― to not owe, not own
- nǣfre ― never
- nyllan ― to not want, refuse
- ne- + witan (“to know”) → nytan (“to not know”)
- ne- + wāt (“I know”) → nāt (“I do not know”)
- ne- + witen (“known”) → nyten (“ignorant”)
Usage notes
Romanian
Etymology
Probably of Slavic origin,[1] possibly borrowed from Old Church Slavonic не- (ne-) or some other language (cf. Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian не-), from Proto-Slavic *ne. Less likely, originally from Latin ne-, and reinforced or influenced by the Slavic prefix.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Pronunciation
Prefix
ne-
- un-; de- (attached to past participles, gerundives and some adjectives to negate them)
- ne- + cunoscut (“known”) → necunoscut (“unknown”)
- ne- + înțeles (“understood”) → neînțeles (“misunderstood”)
- ne- + prietenos (“friendly”) → neprietenos (“unfriendly”)
- ne- + folosind → nefolosind (“not using, without using”)
Derived terms
References
Serbo-Croatian
Prefix
ne- (Cyrillic spelling не-)
- Prefix prepended to adjectives to create an adjective denoting a negative meaning (ne (“not”)). Akin to un-, non-, im-, ir-.
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