Spanish

Proper noun

Che

1. A Spanish male surname.

Chickasaw

Alternative forms

• chi

Pronoun

che

1. you

Esperanto

Preposition

che

1. H-system spelling of ĉe

Galician

Etymology

From Latin tibi, dative singular form of tū.

Pronoun

che dative (nominative ti, oblique ti, accusative te)

1. (to) you (singular second-person personal pronoun)

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns
• contigo
• te
• ti
• teu

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃe/

Pronoun

che

1. I, me

Determiner

che

1. my

   che angirũ — "my friend"

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto ĉe, from French chez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡se/, /t͡sɛ/

Preposition

che

1. at, in, to (someone in his or her house, home or place), with (a people, in respect of their customs)

   Partio che me!‎ ― Party at my place!

   Me lojas che mea patro.‎ ― I live with my dad.

   Irez che la mediko!‎ ― Go to the doctor!

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin quod.

Conjunction

che

1. that
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:

     Nu’ iè truvato spada, che me talgia,‎

     I have not found a sword that would cut me,

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈke/
• Hyphenation: che
• Rhymes: -e

Etymology 1

From Latin quid.^[1], from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis.

Pronoun

che

1. who
2. what
3. which

Etymology 2

From Latin quod, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod-.

Conjunction

che

1. that
2. than
3. when

References

1. ↑ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, ISBN 88-15-08638-2, page 139

Ladin

Conjunction

che

1. that

Mandarin

Romanization

che

1. Nonstandard spelling of chē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of chě.
3. Nonstandard spelling of chè.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Picard

Determiner

che m

1. this

Romagnol

Conjunction

che

1. that; which

Romansch

Conjunction

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) that

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) ca, c'
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) cha

Pronoun

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) who, whom

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) tge
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) cha

Etymology

From Latin quid.

Pronoun

che

1. (Puter, Vallader) what

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tge
• (Sursilvan) tgei

Conjunction

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) than

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) ca
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter) cu
• (Vallader) co

Spanish

Etymology 1

Noun

che f ‎(plural ches)

1. (obsolete) Name of the letter ch.

Etymology 2

Interjection

che

1. (Argentine, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay) hey

Descendants

• Portuguese: tchê

Noun

che m, f ‎(plural che)

1. (colloquial, Chile) Argentinian person

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ṯɕɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ṯɕɛ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [c̻ɛ˧˥]; SAMPROSA: /M[dZe@]/

Verb

che

1. to cover
2. (literally) to hide