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ni

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of ni in English

English Online Dictionary. What means ni‎? What does ni mean?

English

Pronunciation

Noun

(grammar) Initialism of noun inanimate.

Anagrams

-in, -in', IN, i'n, in, in-

Abinomn

Pronoun

you (singular)

Afar

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈni/ [ˈnɪ]

Determiner

ní

References

E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ni”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Ainu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nʲi/

Noun

ni (Kana spelling ニ)

tree
wood

Synonyms

cikuni

Albanian

Alternative forms

tani
nani
nime

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *nū, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Cognate to Sanskrit नू (nū, “now”). Often occurs in coordination with other particles, compare tani, nani, nime.

Adverb

now
Synonyms: tash, tani, hë, nani, nime

Related terms

References

Anguthimri

Noun

(Mpakwithi) place
(Mpakwithi) camp

References

Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin nīs, from Latin nos. Compare Romanian ne (older form nă).

Pronoun

ni (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of noi)

(direct object, first-person plural) us

Related terms

noi (stressed accusative)

Pronoun

ni (unstressed dative and reflexive form of noi)

(indirect object, first-person plural) (to) us

Related terms

nau (stressed dative)

Asturian

Noun

ni f (uncountable)

nu (name for the letter of the Greek alphabet: Ν and ν)

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *nɯi⁴ (“two”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s (“two”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen ခံ (khee), Tibetan གཉིས (gnyis), Sikkimese ཉི (nyi), Nuosu ꑍ (nyip), Burmese နှစ် (hnac).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Numeral

ni (Bengali script নি)

Synonyms

rongni
tu
do

References

van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Bambara

Etymology 1

Noun

soul, life, spirit

Etymology 2

Conjunction

if
when

References

Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *ni.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/ [ni]
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: ni

Pronoun

First-person singular personal pronoun; I

Declension

Derived terms

Biloxi

Noun

Synonym of ani (“water”)

References

David Kaufman, Tanêks-Tąyosą Kadakathi: Biloxi-English Dictionary (University of Kansas, 2011, →ISBN, page 34

Breton

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *ni, from Proto-Celtic *snīs.

Pronoun

we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Brythonic *nei, from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss, from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.

Noun

ni m (plural nied)

nephew

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ni]
Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

Conjunction

neither, nor

Adverb

not even, even

Etymology 2

Noun

ni f (plural nis)

nu; the Greek letter Ν (lowercase ν)

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɲɪ]

Pronoun

ni f

accusative singular of ona

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse níu, from Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /niː/, [niːˀ]

Numeral

nine

Drung

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj.

Noun

References

Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎^[5], Santa Barbara: University of California

Dumbea

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Pronoun

they

References

Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Determiner

this.

Pronoun

this.

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian noi, French nous, Spanish nos, Latin nos, plus the i of personal pronouns.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Pronoun

ni (first-person plural, accusative nin, possessive nia)

we (first-person plural personal pronoun)
ourselves

French

Etymology

From Middle French ny, from Old French ne, from Latin nec. Compare Italian né, Catalan and Spanish ni, Portuguese nem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Conjunction

neither; nor

Usage notes

Used with the negative particle ne.
Chiefly used at least twice in the same sentence the same way neither and nor would be used in an English sentence, such as ni riche, ni pauvre (“neither rich nor poor”).

Derived terms

Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐌽𐌹

Hanunoo

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *ni (“marker of possession”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈni/ [ˈni]
Rhymes: -i
Syllabification: ni

Preposition

ni (Hanunoo spelling ᜨᜲ)

of; by
ti luka ni Bado ― lime tube of Bado

Hausa

Alternative forms

níi

Etymology

From Proto-Chadic, from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔanāku.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /níː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [níː]

Pronoun

nī

I (1st person singular pronoun)

Hungarian

Etymology

Native word of debated origin:

Shortened from nézd (“look!”) ~ nízd (a dialectal variant).
An onomatopoeia expressing astonishment.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈni]
Hyphenation: ni

Interjection

(colloquial) lo!, look!
Itt van ni! ― Look! Here it is!

Usage notes

Most of the time it is used in its duplicated form: nini!

References

Idi

Noun

water

References

Idi Organised Phonology Data

Ido

Pronoun

(personal) we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Ingrian

Pronunciation

(Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈni/, [ˈni]
(Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈni/, [ˈni]
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: ni

Conjunction

Alternative form of niin

References

Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 340

Interlingua

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French and Spanish ni, from Latin nec (“and not”).

Adverb

and not.
Io non sape, ni vole saper ― I don’t know, and I don’t want to know
Neither, nor.
Illo ni me place ni displace ― It neither pleases me nor displeases me
And, or (following a "with no" or "without").
Nos debe resister sin aqua ni alimento ― We must resist with no water or food

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈni/
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: nì

Etymology 1

Blend of no +‎ sì.

Adverb

(informal) neither yes nor no

Etymology 2

Noun

ni m or f (invariable)

nu (Greek letter)

Anagrams

in, in-

Japanese

Romanization

The hiragana syllable に (ni) or the katakana syllable ニ (ni) in Hepburn romanization.

Kamano

Alternative forms

nina

Noun

water

References

The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN

Kansa

Etymology

From Proto-Siouan *wa-rį́• (“water”).

Noun

water
any liquid
river

References

Kansa dictionary
Quapaw dictionary, in notes: "ni (ni) - water, river, liquid (Kanza)"

Kedah Malay

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Pronoun

you (singular)

Klao

Noun

water

References

World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2002, →ISBN

Laboya

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [niː]

Noun

coconut

References

Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “ni”, in Lamboya word list‎^[7], Leiden: LexiRumah

Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin nei, from Proto-Italic *nei, from Proto-Indo-European *néy (“not”), from *ne. Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐌹 (nei), Lithuanian nei, Old Church Slavonic ни (ni), Old Irish ní and Sanskrit न (ná). See also nē.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /niː/, [niː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ni/, [niː]

Adverb

nī (not comparable)

not, if...not, unless- an absolutely negative particle like ne so only in combinations

Derived terms

quid nī? (why not?)
nīmīrum (not wonderful)
nisi

Conjunction

nī

not, that not, unless; like ne in imperative and intentional clauses
Ni quid tibi hinc in spem referas. ― Take not whatsoever hope hence.

Vinum aliudve quid ni laudato. ― I don't praise wine or anything else.

Numa constituit, ut pisces, qui squamosi non essent, ni pollucerent ... ni qui ad polluctum emerent. ― [The Roman king] Numa ordained that scaleless fish be neither offered [to the gods] ... nor bought for offering.

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin nec.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Conjunction

nor
neither...nor
either...or

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nügüt. Cognates include Finnish nyt.

Adverb

Lolopo

Etymology

From Proto-Loloish *(ʔ)-ne¹, from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔnəj¹/³, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun; day”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ni³³]

Noun

(Yao'an) day

References

Merrifield, Judith, Merrifield, Scott (2018) “Query for ni”, in Yao'an Loxrlavu – English Dictionary (in Chinese), SIL International

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German nie, from Old High German nio. Cognate with German nie.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /niː/

Adverb

never

Synonyms

(never): nimools, keemol, keemools

Malay

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/
Rhymes: -ni, -i

Determiner

ni (Jawi spelling ني)

Colloquial form of ini

Pronoun

ni (Jawi spelling ني)

Colloquial form of ini

Mandarin

Romanization

Nonstandard spelling of nī.
Nonstandard spelling of ní.
Nonstandard spelling of nǐ.
Nonstandard spelling of nì.

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.

Marshallese

Etymology

From Proto-Micronesian *niu, from Proto-Oceanic *niuʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *niuʀ.

Pronunciation

(phonetic) IPA^(key): [nʲi]
(phonemic) IPA^(key): /nʲij/
Bender phonemes:

Noun

coconut tree

Related terms

iu (coconut)

References

Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle English

Adverb

Alternative form of ne

Conjunction

Alternative form of ne

Middle Irish

Particle

Alternative spelling of ní

Mizo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *nii (“sun; day”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun; day”).

Noun

sun
day
time

Etymology 2

Noun

aunt

References

Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940) “ni”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

Mohegan-Pequot

Pronoun

ni (first person singular)

singular first-person pronoun I

Mokilese

Etymology

From Proto-Micronesian *niu, from Proto-Oceanic *niuʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *niuʀ.

Noun

coconut tree

Derived terms

ni pwespwes
ni rei
ni roam
ni soal
ni wahssa

References

Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

Navajo

Pronoun

second person singular pronoun you
second person singular possessive pronoun yours

Usage notes

The verb in Navajo incorporates information about person, and many sentences may thus not have explicit independent pronouns. For instance:

Hooghandi naniná.
Ni éí hooghandi naniná.

Both sentences are grammatically complete, and mean essentially the same thing: you are at home. The verb naniná is in the second-person form, so the pronoun can be safely omitted, as in the first sentence. This is similar to pronoun dropping in other languages where the verb specifies person, such as Spanish. Meanwhile, the explicit use of ni in the second sentence emphasizes that the speaker is talking about you. This can be thought of as roughly equivalent to the use of emphasis in English: while the first sentence comes across as you're at home, the second one is more like you, you're at home.

Naxi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja.

Noun

fish

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s.

Numeral

References

Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

Ningil

Noun

water

References

transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66 : /niː/
Margaret Manning, Naomi Saggers, A Tentative Phonemic Analysis of Ningil (SIL), in Phonologies of five Austronesian languages (Richard Loving, John M. Clifton; 1975) : /ni/

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse níu (whence also Danish ni, Icelandic níu, Faroese níggju and Swedish nio) from Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognate with Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun); Old English niġon (English nine); Old Frisian nigun (West Frisian njoggen); Old High German niun (German neun).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Numeral

nine

Derived terms

førtini
nittini

Related terms

niende

References

“ni” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

nio, nie (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse níu.

Numeral

nine

Derived terms

førtini
nittini

References

“ni” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Nutabe

Noun

water

References

Paul Rivet, Nouvelle contribution à l’étude de l’ethnologie précolombienne de Colombie, Journal de la Société des Américanistes volume 35, pages 25-39 (1943), page 26

Old Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈɲi/
IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈɲi/

Pronoun

dual accusative of oně

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ne.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Particle

Derived terms

nein

Descendants

Middle High German: ne
- German: nee (dialectal)

Old Irish

Particle

Alternative spelling of ní

Omaha-Ponca

Etymology

From Proto-Siouan *wa-rį́• (“water”).

Noun

water

References

Alice Cunningham Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, The Omaha Tribe (1970), page 166

Phalura

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Determiner

ni (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling نیۡ)

this (agr: prox fem / prox non-nom masc)

References

Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ni”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[8], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Determiner

ni (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling نیۡ)

these (agr: prox)

References

Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ni”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[9], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Pronoun

ni (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling نیۡ)

it
she (prox fem nom)

References

Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ni”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[10], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/

Pronoun

ni (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling نیۡ)

they (prox nom)

References

Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ni”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[11], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -i
Syllabification: ni
Homophone: -ni

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ni.

Conjunction

(archaic) Alternative form of ani

Derived terms

Particle

(dialectal, Przemyśl) Alternative form of nie

Etymology 2

See ny.

Noun

ni n (indeclinable)

Alternative form of ny

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νῦ (nû).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: ni

Noun

ni m (plural nis)

nu (the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet)

Proto-Norse

Romanization

Romanization of ᚾᛁ

Rawang

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni˧/

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Verb

to pour; to water.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

headhair.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj. Cognate with Burmese နေ (ne) and နေ့ (ne.), Old Chinese 日 (*njiɡ).

Noun

day (24 hour).

Romanian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin.

Pronoun

Alternative form of ne (dative of noi): to us

Usage notes

This form is used when ne (which is dative) is combined with the following accusatives:

îl (the accusative of el, contracted as ni-l)
îi (the accusative of ei, contracted as ni-i)
le (the accusative of ele)
se (the reflexive accusative of all third-person pronouns)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hungarian ni.

Interjection

(Transylvania) lo!, look!, behold!
Ni la el! ― Look at him!

Samoan

Article

some (plural indefinite article)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ni (“nor, not”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nej, from Proto-Indo-European *ney. Compare ni-, ne.

Particle

ni (Cyrillic spelling ни)

(emphasizes negation) even, either
ni ja to ne znam — even I don't know that; I don't know that either

Conjunction

ni (Cyrillic spelling ни)

(shortening of niti) neither, nor
ona nije ni pametna ni(ti) marljiva — she is neither smart nor industrious

ni traga ni glasa o .. — not a trace about ..

ni kriv ni dužan — completely innocent (lit. neither guilty nor indebted)

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ni]
(unstressed) IPA^(key): [nɪ]

Pronoun

us, accusative of nuàutri
us, dative of nuàutri
us, reflexive of nuàutri

Inflection

Slovene

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nìː/

Verb

ní

negative third-person singular present of bíti

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈni/ [ˈni]
Rhymes: -i
Syllabification: ni

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish nin, from Latin nec, apocopated form of neque, from Proto-Indo-European *nekʷe (“and not, neither, nor”), from *ne (“not”) + *-kʷe (“and”). Compare Asturian and Galician nin, Catalan and French ni, Portuguese nem, Italian né, Dalmatian ne. Indo-European cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌷 (nih) and Irish nach.

Conjunction

(coordinating) neither... nor
Antonym: o ... o
1. (with three or more referents) none of...
nor, or

Derived terms

Adverb

not even

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

ni f (plural níes)

nu; the Greek letter Ν, ν
Synonym: ny

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

positive degree present and gnomic (all persons, numbers, and classes) of -wa (“to be”)

Swedish

Etymology

Since 1661, through rebracketing of the 2nd plural verb suffix -(e)n and the older pronoun I ("ye"), e.g. vissten I > visste ni (“did you know”). Compare Icelandic þér and þið which developed similarly.

The Old Swedish ī, īr derives from Old Norse *īʀ (East Norse variant of ér) from Proto-Germanic *jīz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́. Compare Danish I.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /niː/
Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

you (plural nominative)
you (second-person singular nominative formal) (capitalized Ni, rare in modern use)
1. (obsolete) title used when addressing a person of lower social rank
2. (colloquial, perceived formal, derogatory to some) by some considered a respectful alternative to du (“you”), especially when addressing customers or the elderly

Usage notes

Both ni and er are second person plural forms, but can also be used as formal second person singular, as in the German Sie or French vous. It may sometimes also be capitalized (Ni, Er). The courteous "ni" was introduced in Swedish around the year 1900 as an alternative to the more complicated pattern of addressing others in the third person singular by their appropriate titles. This required knowledge of social status, occupation, educations, etc. with terms like fru (“Mrs.”) or fröken (“Ms.”), greve (“count”), kamrer (“accountant”), kandidat (“bachelor's degree holder”), etc. However this "ni-reform" was not well liked and when authority came to use the word ni to their subordinates the word got a condescending undertone. Interestingly enough the older I, from which ni was originally formed, was used alongside ni all along (and is still in use in some dialects) but never got the condescending undertone that ni got. This was all phased out gradually during the 1960s and 1970s in the so-called du-reformen, (“the you-reform”). In contemporary Swedish, du is universal and may be used to address anyone, regardless of differences in social status or age.

Ni is used occasionally by younger speakers to address customers in order to be formal and polite. However this is often seen as being overly formal and too contrived, even condescending and insulting, especially by older speakers. Formality and politeness in modern Swedish is not conveyed through specific grammatical forms, but primarily done through indirectness, manners of speaking or various other behaviors.

Declension

Synonyms

References

ni in Svensk ordbok (SO)
ni in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
ni in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

Tagalog

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ni/ [n̪ɪ]
Rhymes: -i
Syllabification: ni

Etymology 1

From Proto-Austronesian *ni (“marker of possession”).

Preposition

ni (plural nina, Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒ)

of; possessive particle, used only with personal names
bisikleta ni Juan ― Juan's bicycle
objective marker for personal names, objective form of si; functional equivalent of ng

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish ni (“not even”), from Old Spanish nin, from Latin nec, apocopated form of neque.

Conjunction

ni (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒ)

neither; nor
Ni ako hindi nagsisigarilyo. ― Even I don't do cigarettes.

Ni aso ni pusa. ― Neither dog nor cat.

Related terms

Adverb

ni (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒ)

not even
Synonym: ni ultimo

Hindi ako humingi ni isang butil ng bigas. ― I didn't ask not even for a single grain of rice.

Anagrams

-in, -in-, in-

Tarifit

Alternative forms

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Verb

ni (Tifinagh spelling ⵏⵉ)

(intransitive) to mount (on an animal)
(intransitive) to get into, to board, to embark (a vehicle)

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Verbal noun: tnaya (“mounting, boarding”)
Causative: sni (“to make board”)
- Verbal noun: aseniy
tnaya (“transport”)
amnay (“rider; cavalier, knight”)

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ni]
Hyphenation: ni

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *ni. Cognates include Tuvaluan ni and Samoan ni.

Article

Plural indefinite article; any

Etymology 2

Particle

Changes a statement into a polite question; isn't it? doesn't it?

References

R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[12], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 250

Unami

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ni]

Pronoun

Ura (Vanuatu)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni/, [ni]

Noun

tree

Uzbek

Particle

accusative case marker; placed after the direct object of a transitive verb

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ни (ni).

Determiner

not, not a, no

Inflection

Not inflected.

Conjunction

ni ... ni

neither ... nor

References

Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “ни”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[13], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Etymology

See này.

This is one of many cases in which monophthongs were not diphthongized in Central Vietnamese, compare mày vs. mi, chấy vs. chí, nước vs. nác.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ni˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [nɪj˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [nɪj˧˧]

Determiner

(Central Vietnam) this

Adverb

(Central Vietnam) now

Anagrams

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /niː/
Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *ni, from Proto-Celtic *snīs.

Pronoun

us; we

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *nīs, from Proto-Indo-European *ne h₁ésti (“is not”).

Adverb

ni (triggers mixed mutation)

(literary) not

Usage notes

Triggers mixed mutation (i.e. aspirate of p, t, c and soft of remaining mutatable letters) of a following consonant.
The form nid is used before a vowel. When the following consonant is g, which disappears under soft mutation, the form ni remains, thus ni + gwn becomes ni wn, not *nid wn.
In literary registers, dim (“anything”) may be added (as ddim, with soft mutation) for emphasis, so ni chlywais i ddim may mean either “I did not hear anything” or simply “I did not hear”. In the colloquial language, ni is omitted but the mixed mutation remains, giving chlywais i ddim (“I didn't hear”).

References

West Makian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /n̪i/

Pronoun

ni (possessive prefix ni)

second-person singular pronoun, you

References

Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[15], Pacific linguistics

Wutunhua

Etymology

From Mandarin 你 (nǐ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [n̪i]

Pronoun

you (second-person subject pronoun)

Yil

Noun

water

References

transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66 : /niː/
A Tentative Phonemic Statement in Yil in West Sepik Province, in Phonologies of five Austronesian languages (Richard Loving, John M. Clifton; 1975) : /ni/

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nĩ́/

Noun

ní

The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

nẹ́ (Ondo, Ikalẹ)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nĩ́/

Verb

ní

(transitive) to have

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nĩ́/

Preposition

ní

at, in (used when no movement is implied)
preposition used for creating adverbials

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nĩ́/

Verb

ní

(intransitive) to say

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nĩ̄/

Verb

(transitive) to be (to have a quality or identification)

Usage notes

This verb cannot be used with regular subject pronouns such as mo or ó, and emphatic subject pronouns must be used in their place. This verb is also often used in a flipped structure where the quality or identification becomes the grammatical subject of the verb while an object pronoun is used for the actual subject of the sentence.

Òun ni ọ̀rẹ́ mi. – He is my friend. (uses the emphatic pronoun òun instead of ó)
Ṣé ọmọ Yorùbá ni yín? – Are you Yoruba? (Ọmọ Yorùbá becomes the subject of ni while "you" becomes the object pronoun yín)

Etymology 6

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nĩ̄/

(intransitive) to be bloated, to be tumid

Derived terms

níni

Zou

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *nii, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj. Cognates include Northern Min 日 (nì) and Burmese နေ (ne).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni˧/

Noun

Etymology 2

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ni, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s. Cognates include Northern Min 二 (nī) and Tibetan གཉིས (gnyis).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ni˧/

Numeral

References

Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40

Zulu

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

-ni^?

what (kind of)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

-ni

Combining stem of nina.

References

C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “-ni”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-ni”

ni

ni

English

Pronunciation

Noun

See also

Anagrams

Abinomn

Pronoun

Afar

Pronunciation

Determiner

See also

References

Ainu

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Adverb

Related terms

References

Anguthimri

Noun

References

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronoun

Related terms

Pronoun

Related terms

See also

Asturian

Noun

Atong (India)

Etymology

Pronunciation

Numeral

Synonyms

References

Bambara

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Conjunction

References

Basque

Etymology

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Biloxi

Noun

References

Breton

Etymology 1

Pronoun

Etymology 2

Noun

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Conjunction

Adverb

Etymology 2

Noun

Czech

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Danish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Numeral

Drung

Etymology