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Webster 1913 Edition


ne

ne

(nē)
,
adv.
[AS.
ne
. See
No
.]
Not; never.
[Obs.]
He never yet no villany
ne
said.
Chaucer.
Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never (= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations, now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad, nam, nil. See
Negative
, 2.

ne

,
c
onj.
[See
Ne
,
adv.
]
Nor.
[Obs.]
Shak.
No niggard
ne
no fool.
Chaucer.
Ne . . . ne
,
neither . . . nor.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ne

NE

, not, is obsolete. We find it in early English writers, prefixed to other words; as nill, for ne will, will not; nas, for ne has, has not; nis for ne is, is not.

Definition 2024


See also: Appendix:Variations of "ne"

Afrikaans

Particle

  1. right? isn't it? (used to ask for confirmation that a statement is true)

Istriot

Conjunction

nè ... nè

  1. neithernor
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:
      I’ n’iè truvà spada, curtielo,
      I have found neither sword nor knife,

Italian

Conjunction

  1. Misspelling of .

Mandarin

Romanization

(Zhuyin ㄋㄜˋ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of
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  4. Pinyin transcription of
  5. Pinyin transcription of ,