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ingen

ingen

Danish

Pronoun

ingen (neuter intet, plural ingen)

  1. no; no one; nobody; nothing
  2. neither
  3. none

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Hungarian

Etymology

ing + -en

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈiŋɡɛn]
  • Hyphenation: in‧gen

Noun

ingen

  1. superessive singular of ing

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse engi, enginn.

Pronoun

ingen (feminine inga, masculine ingen, neuter intet, plural ingen)

  1. no; no one; nobody; nothing
  2. neither
  3. none

Adjective

ingen

  1. no; not any

Derived terms

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse engi, enginn.

Pronoun

ingen (feminine inga, masculine ingen, neuter inkje, plural ingen)

  1. no; no one; nobody; nothing
  2. neither
  3. none

Adjective

ingen

  1. no; not any

Derived terms

References


Old Irish

Etymology 1

From Primitive Irish ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena), from Proto-Celtic *enigenā, from Proto-Indo-European [Term?] (compare Latin indigena (native), Ancient Greek ἐγγόνη (engónē, granddaughter)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈinʲɣʲen/

Noun

ingen f (genitive ingine)

  1. daughter
  2. maiden, virgin, young woman
Inflection
Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *angʷīnā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ-, *h₃nogʷʰ-.

Cognate with Welsh ewin, Breton ivin; and with Latin unguis, English nail, Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux), Russian ноготь (nógot’), Sanskrit नख (nakhá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈiŋʲɡʲen/

Noun

ingen f (genitive ingen)

  1. fingernail
  2. toenail
Inflection
Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Descendants

References

  • 1 ingen (‘daughter’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • 2 ingen (‘nail’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Rudolf Thurneysen, A Grammar of Old Irish (Dublin, 1946), §24

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ængin, from Old Norse engi, enginn, from einn (one) + -gi (privative suffix).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ingen (neuter inget, plural inga)

  1. no, no one, nobody
    Jag har inga cigaretter.
    I have no cigarettes.
    Jag har ingen bil.
    I don't have any car.
    Ingen har någonsin sprungit 100 meter på under nio sekunder!
    No one has ever run 100 meters faster than nine seconds!
    Inget träd kan leva av vatten allena.
    No tree can live by nothing but water.

Synonyms

  • inte någon

Usage notes

The neuter form inget is also used for inanimates, i.e. in the sense "nothing".

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