niks

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch niks, probably from German nix.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nəks/
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Pronoun

niks

  1. nothing

Danish

Etymology

From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nix, nichts.

Pronunciation

Interjection

niks

  1. no, no way

Alternative forms

Pronoun

niks

  1. nothing

Related terms

References

Dutch

Etymology

Probably from colloquial and dialectal German nix.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

niks

  1. nothing

Alternative forms

  • nix (slang, deliberate misspelling)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Berbice Creole Dutch: neks
  • Javindo: neks
  • → Guyanese Creole English: nix

Adjective

niks (used only predicatively, comparative meer niks, superlative meest niks)

  1. disagreeable, distasteful, not liking
    Ik vind het niks dat ze hier huizen gaan bouwen.
    I don't like that they're going to build houses here.
  2. uninteresting
    Jij mag deze schilderijen geweldig vinden, maar voor mij is het niks.
    You may think these paintings are great, but they're not interesting for me.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “niets”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Anagrams

Low German

Etymology

Compare to German nichts (“nothing”).

Pronoun

niks

  1. nothing; Alternative form of nix

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nichts.

Pronunciation

Interjection

niks

  1. no, no way

Pronoun

niks

  1. nothing

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Low German niks (“nothing”) and German nichts.

Pronunciation

Adverb

niks

  1. no way

Determiner

niks

  1. (colloquial) no

Interjection

niks

  1. no, no way

Pronoun

niks

  1. nothing

References

  • “niks” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “niks”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

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