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Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
nena f (plural nenes)
- female equivalent of nen; girl, female child
Further reading
Dupaningan Agta
Noun
nena
- mother (term of reference)
Synonyms
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese neno, nena (“young, tender”), from Vulgar Latin *ninnus, probably imitative of infantile language. Cognate with Spanish niña.
Pronunciation
Noun
nena f (plural nenas)
- child (female), especially before puberty
- Synonyms: cativa, meniña, rapariga, rapaza
- girl; young woman
- 1403, M. M .Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Estudios Mindonienses, page 237:
- Item mando que den aa nena que mora en na casa duas trases et hun tornes et huna camisa et duas sauaas
- Item, I order that they give to the girl that lives at the house two trases and a solidus from Tours and a shirt and two sheets
- Synonyms: meniña, moza
Related terms
References
- “nena” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “neno” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “nena” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “nena” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “nena” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “neno” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Laz
Noun
nena
- Latin spelling of ნენა (nena)
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *nenä.
Noun
nena
- nose
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ننه (Turkish nene).
Noun
nena f (Cyrillic spelling нена)
- grandmother
- grandma
- granny
- old woman
Synonyms
Spanish
Etymology
Feminine form of nene (“kid, baby”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnena/
- Rhymes: -ena
- Syllabification: ne‧na
Noun
nena f (plural nenas)
- female equivalent of nene; baby girl
- Coordinate term: niña
- (colloquial) babe, dear (term of endearment to a woman or girl)
1978, “¿Qué hace una chica como tú en un sitio como este?”, performed by Burning:Los años te delatan, nena, / estás fuera de sitio- The years give you away, babe / you're out of place
Derived terms
Further reading
Swahili
Pronunciation
Verb
-nena (infinitive kunena)
- to say
Conjugation
Conjugation of -nena
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Positive present
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-nanena
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Subjunctive
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-nene
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Negative
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-neni
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Imperative singular
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nena
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Infinitives
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Imperatives
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Tensed forms
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Habitual
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hunena
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Positive past
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positive subject concord + -linena
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Negative past
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negative subject concord + -kunena
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Positive present (positive subject concord + -nanena)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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ninanena/nanena
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tunanena
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2nd person
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unanena
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mnanena
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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ananena
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wananena
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -nanena
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Negative present (negative subject concord + -neni)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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sineni
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hatuneni
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2nd person
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huneni
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hamneni
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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haneni
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hawaneni
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other classes
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negative subject concord + -neni
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Positive future
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positive subject concord + -tanena
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Negative future
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negative subject concord + -tanena
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Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -nene)
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Singular
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Plural
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1st person
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ninene
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tunene
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2nd person
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unene
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mnene
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3rd person
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m-wa(I/II)
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anene
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wanene
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other classes
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positive subject concord + -nene
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Negative subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -sinene
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Positive present conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngenena
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Negative present conditional
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positive subject concord + -singenena
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Positive past conditional
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positive subject concord + -ngalinena
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Negative past conditional
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positive subject concord + -singalinena
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Perfect
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positive subject concord + -menena
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"Already"
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positive subject concord + -meshanena
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"Not yet"
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negative subject concord + -janena
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"If/When"
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positive subject concord + -kinena
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"If not"
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positive subject concord + -siponena
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Consecutive
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kanena / positive subject concord + -kanena
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Consecutive subjunctive
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positive subject concord + -kanene
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Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.
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Derived terms
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *nenä.
Noun
nena
- nose (on face)
- nose (of a shoe)
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “нос, носок”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika