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Aba
Noun
nie
- water
References
- D. T. Tryon, Towards a Classification of Solomon Islands Languages
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch niet, nie, from Middle Dutch niwet, niet, from Old Dutch *niowiht, niewiht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ni/ (generally)
- IPA(key): /‿i/ (commonly after a verb that ends in a consonant)
Adverb
nie
- not
Hy kan nie Afrikaans praat nie.- He can't speak Afrikaans.
Usage notes
Related terms
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Middle High German nio, from Old High German nio.
Pronunciation
Adverb
nie
- never
Dutch
Etymology 1
From niet, with dialectal end-t deletion and shortening of the ie-vowel.
Alternative forms
- (standard) niet
- (dialectal) ni
Pronunciation
Adverb
nie
- (dialectal) Alternative form of niet
Usage notes
- While the spelling nie and the invariable use of the corresponding pronunciation are dialectal, the standard word niet is not rarely given the same pronunciation, particularly in fast speech.
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch nie, from Old Dutch nie, from Proto-Germanic *ne *aiwaz. Cognate to German nie.
Equivalent to n- (“n-”) + ie (“ever”) (from Middle Dutch ie, from Old Dutch io).
Pronunciation
Adverb
nie
- (obsolete) never
- Synonyms: nooit, nimmer, nooit ofte nimmer
French
Pronunciation
Verb
nie
- inflection of nier:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
German
Etymology
From Middle High German nio, from Old High German nio.
Pronunciation
Adverb
nie
- never, never at all (referring to an indefinite period of time)
- Das ist nie passiert! ― That has never happened!
- Wir werden die Wahrheit wohl nie erfahren. ― We'll probably never know the truth.
- never, not once (referring to a defined period of time; see usage notes below)
- Synonyms: nicht, gar nicht, überhaupt nicht
Er hat sich in zwei Wochen nie die Haare gewaschen.- He never washed his hair for two weeks.
Usage notes
- (not once): In English it is quite common to use the word “never” referring to a defined period of time: “I was waiting all night, but he never called.” German generally prefers, and often requires, to use nicht (“not”) in such contexts, possibly emphasized by another adverb such as gar or überhaupt: Ich habe den ganzen Abend gewartet, aber er hat (gar) nicht angerufen. Using nie is only possible if such a period of time is (unusually) long, as in the example sentence above.
Synonyms
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “nie” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “nie” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “nie” in Duden online
Anagrams
Hunsrik
Etymology
From Middle High German nio, from Old High German nio.
Pronunciation
Adverb
nie
- never
Ich hon das nie gesihn.- I've never seen that.
Du sollst das nie mache.- You should never do that.
Further reading
Ingrian
Etymology
From nittoa (“to fasten”) + -e. Akin to Finnish nide.
Pronunciation
Noun
nie
- binding of a scythe
Declension
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 340
Iu Mien
Etymology
From Chinese 泥 (MC nej).
Noun
nie
- soil, dirt
Japanese
Romanization
nie
- Rōmaji transcription of にえ
Mandarin
Romanization
nie
- Nonstandard spelling of niē.
- Nonstandard spelling of nié.
- Nonstandard spelling of niě.
- Nonstandard spelling of niè.
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Masurian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish nie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Syllabification: nie
Particle
nie
- negation particle; no, not
Further reading
- Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2021) “nie”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 4, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, pages 295-298
Northern Sami
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈnie̯/
Adverb
nie
- that, so (to that degree)
- like that, in the same way
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From ni (“nine”).
Noun
nie f (definite singular nia, uncountable)
- a niner
- Synonym: niar
References
- “nie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ne. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɲɛ(ː)/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɲɛ/, /ɲe/
Particle
nie
- negation particle; not, not
Verb
nie impf
- there is no
Descendants
References
Plautdietsch
Etymology
From Middle Low German nîe, nü̂we, from Old Saxon niuwi. Related to West Frisian nij, Dutch nieuw, German neu, English new, Swedish ny.
Adjective
nie
- new
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Polish nie. Doublet of a-.
Particle
nie
- negation particle; no, not
- Antonym: tak
Verb
nie impf (defective)
- (Middle Polish) there is no
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronoun
nie
- accusative singular of ono
- accusative plural of one
Usage notes
Used only with prepositions. See Appendix:Polish pronouns.
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 395 times in scientific texts, 446 times in news, 1225 times in essays, 2061 times in fiction, and 3714 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 8341 times, making it the 5th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “nie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 280
Further reading
- nie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- nie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “NIE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 15.02.2015
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “nie”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “nie”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “nie”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 252
Sardinian
Pronunciation
Noun
nie m (plural nies)
- (Logudorese) Alternative form of nibe (“snow”)
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
nie
- Obsolete spelling of nije
Silesian
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ/
- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Syllabification: nie
Particle
nie
- Alternative form of niy
Pronoun
nie
- accusative singular of ôno
- accusative plural of ône
Usage notes
Used only with prepositions.
Further reading