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English
Adverb
not even (not comparable)
- Introduces or constitutes a more emphatic negation or exclusion than "not".
Not even I knew that.
You didn't even look at me.
Translations
constitutes an emphatic negation
- Burmese: တောင် (my) (taung)
- Catalan: ni tan sols
- Czech: ani (cs), ba ani
- Dutch: niet eens (nl), nog niet, zelfs niet (each can however be split)
- Finnish: ei edes (fi)
- French: même pas (fr)
- Galician: nin sequera, nin (gl)
- German: nicht mal, nicht einmal (de), eben (de)/selbst (de)/sogar (de)... nicht (de) (can be split)
- Greek:
- Ancient: οὐδέ (oudé), μηδέ (mēdé)
- Icelandic: ekki einu sinni
- Interlingua: non mesmo
- Italian: neanche (it), neppure (it), nemmeno (it), manco (it)
- Latin: ne quidem
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ikke engang, selv ikke
- Portuguese: nem ao menos (pt), nem sequer (pt), nem mesmo (pt), nem (pt)
- Romanian: nici (ro)
- Russian: да́же не (ru) (dáže ne)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чак нити, чак ни
- Roman: čak niti, čak ni
- Spanish: ni siquiera (es)
- Swedish: inte ens
- Ukrainian: навіть не (navitʹ ne)
- Welsh: dim hyd yn oed
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Interjection
not even
- (colloquial) Used to express strong disappointment or disapproval.
I heard they wanted to cancel the show tonight. –Not even!
Translations
used to express strong disappointment