neger

Perhaps from Middle French nègre, from Spanish negro; or perhaps a variant of nigger.

neger (plural negers)

1. (rare, often offensive) Synonym of nigger.
   • c. 1700, ‘The Saint Turn'd Sinner’ (ballad):

     The Parson still more eager, / Than lustful Turk or Neger, / Took up her lower Garment, / And said there was no harm in't, / According to the Text.

• Egner, Geren, Green, Green., genre, green, regen

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

• IPA^(key):

neger c (singular definite negeren, plural indefinite negre)

1. (derogatory, now offensive) a dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent
2. a ghostwriter

The term neger is not quite as offensive as English nigger, but is now generally considered offensive by most people; in its place, the term sort (“black”) is preferred.

or

• (dark-skinned, derogatory): nigger, abekat
• (dark-skinned, neutral): sort, farvet, afrikaner, mørkhudet (“dark skinned”)
• (ghostwriter): ghostwriter

• neger on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

neger

Wikipedia ^nl

From earlier negro (“black person”) or from French nègre (“black person”), from Spanish negro (“black person”), from Latin niger (“black”). Doublet of nikker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈneː.ɣər/

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• Hyphenation: ne‧ger
• Rhymes: -eːɣər

neger m (plural negers, diminutive negertje n, feminine negerin)

1. (colloquial, now offensive in many contexts) a black person, a Negro (male or of unspecified gender)
   • 1965, “Hij was maar een neger”, performed by Zangeres Zonder Naam:

     Hij hoorde gezang, ozo vroom en devoot / Terwijl men voor hem alle deuren goed sloot. / Hij was maar 'n neger, zo'n zwarte (...)

     He heard singing, so very pious and devout / While people closed all doors shut for him. / He was only a negro, one of those blacks (...)

• The word is not to be confused with the (etymologically related) Dutch word nikker, which is a term similar in meaning and offensiveness to English nigger.
• For many speakers in Belgium and the Netherlands it is a neutral albeit mainly colloquial way to refer to someone with a dark skin colour. Historically, the word was also used in formal registers, including in newspapers and literary works, but such use had become rare by the early 21st century.
• In Suriname, the word is a derogatory term, except when used in the compounds bosneger and stadsneger.
• In the Benelux, since about 2010, neger is increasingly considered to be hurtful, condescending and/or discriminatory, especially by black people, due to the offensiveness of the etymologically related English nigger and Negro. Prescriptivists may equate its offensiveness with that of nigger.
• There is evidence that at least some black speakers have reappropriated the word.
• The synonyms zwarte, zwarte persoon/man/vrouw, or persoon/man/vrouw met Afrikaanse roots can be used as neutral alternatives in all geographies and circumstances. There is also some use of the neologistic prefix Afro-, which is used similarly to English African-. It can be added as a prefix to any nationality or ethnicity to indicate African roots; for example: Afro-Nederlander (“African Dutchman”), Afro-Belg (“African Belgian”), Afro-Vlaming (“African Fleming”) and Afro-Surinamer (“African Surinamese”). These are neutral alternatives in most circumstances; however, within Suriname, Afro-Surinamer is a somewhat more politically charged term, as it is mostly used to emphasize unity between the two black ethnicities of Creoles and Maroons.

• zwarte

• negroïde

• Afrikaans: neger
• Negerhollands: neeger
• >? Sranan Tongo: nengre
  • Aukan: nengee
  • Saramaccan: në́ngë

• enger
• genre
• regen

neger (indeclinable)

1. (Austria, colloquial, dated, possibly offensive) broke, bankrupt

• Neger
• Negerant

neger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of negō

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

neger

Wikipedia ^no

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

neger m (definite singular negeren, indefinite plural negere or negre or negrer, definite plural negerne or negrene)

1. a Negro (sometimes derogatory and offensive)

• “neger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

neger

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

neger m (definite singular negeren, indefinite plural negrar, definite plural negrane)

1. a Negro (sometimes derogatory and offensive)

• “neger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

neger m pers

1. (derogatory) nigger

   Synonym: černoch

• “neger”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

neger

Wikipedia ^sv

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈneːɡɛr/
• Rhymes: -¹eːɡɛr
• Hyphenation: ne‧ger

neger c

1. (derogatory, now offensive) a negro, a nigger, a black person

• Has undergone a similar development to English negro. Newspapers abandoned the word in the 1970s, in favor of terms like svart (“black”), färgad (“colored”) (now often considered derogatory), and afrikan (“African”). Sometimes used in a more-or-less neutral way by old people.
• The pluralization with -ar, although attested as early as 1756, is less common and omitted from several dictionaries.

• blåman
• svarting

• negerboll
• negerkyss
• negerslav
• blåneger

• → Finnish: neekeri

• neger in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• neger in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• Fula Ordboken

• gener, genre, green