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ni

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English

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Noun

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ni

  1. (grammar) Initialism of noun inanimate.

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Abinomn

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Pronoun

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ni

  1. you (singular)

Afar

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Determiner

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ní

  1. our
    • Saytun Qhuraan kee kay maqnah tarjamaty Qafar afal tani [The clear Qur'an and its explanation translated into the Afar language]‎[2], Suurat Al-Faatica, verse 5:
      Diggah nanu Ni Rabbow koo inkittosnaah Qibaada dibuk koo caglisna, nanu ni-caagiidah inkih cato koo esserra.
      Our God, with strength we make you whole, only you we give [our] adoration, we as one ask you for help with our afairs.

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Afar possessive determiners
1st person 2nd person 3rd person m 3rd person f
Personal Singular yi ku kay tet
Plural ni sin ken
Reflexive Singular inní isí
Plural ninní isinní, sinní

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  • 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

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ni (Kana spelling ニ)

  1. tree
  2. wood

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *nū, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Cognate to Sanskrit नू (nū, “now”).[1] Often occurs in coordination with other particles, compare tani, nani, nime.

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ni

  1. now
    Synonyms: tash, tani, hë, nani, nime
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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 206

Anguthimri

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ni

  1. (Mpakwithi) place
  2. (Mpakwithi) camp

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

Aromanian

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Etymology

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

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ni (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of noi)

  1. (direct object, first-person plural) us
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  • noi (stressed accusative)

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ni (unstressed dative and reflexive form of noi)

  1. (indirect object, first-person plural) (to) us
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  • nau (stressed dative)

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Asturian

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Noun

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ni f (uncountable)

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

Atong (India)

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Etymology

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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).

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ni (Bengali script নি)

  1. two

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Bambara

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Noun

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ni

  1. soul, life, spirit

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ni

  1. if
    Ni taara sugu la, i bɛ ne ba ye.
    If you go to the market, you will see my mother
  2. when

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Basque

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Etymology

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From Proto-Basque *ni.

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ni

  1. First-person singular personal pronoun; I
    • c. 1808, Juan Bautista Aguirre, Eracusaldiac [Lessons]‎[4], Tolosa, published 1850, page 473:
      […] Jauna: ez naiz ni beñere izan zu neure viotzean artzeco diña […]
      [ […] Jauna, ez naiz ni beñere izan zu nere biotzean artzeko diña […] ]
      […] Lord, not even once have I been worth of belonging to your heart […]
    • 1989, Gorka Aulestia, Basque-English Dictionary, Douglas: William A, page 53:
      Ni errege izan nintzen.
      I was king.
    • 2013, Patricio Urquizu Sarasua, Gramática de la lengua vasca, Universidad Nacional de Educación de Distancia, page 154:
      Ni etorri naiz.
      I have come.

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Declension of Basque personal pronouns
Common pronouns
singular plural
1st person 2nd person (informal) 2nd person (neutral) 1st person 2nd person
absolutive ni hi zu gu zuek
ergative nik hik zuk guk
dative niri hiri zuri guri zuei
genitive nire,
ene 		hire zure gure zuen
comitative nirekin,
enekin 		hirekin zurekin gurekin zuekin
causative nigatik, niregatik,
enegatik 		higatik, hiregatik zugatik, zuregatik gugatik, guregatik zuengatik
benefactive niretzat, niretako,
enetzat,enetako 		hiretzat, hiretako zuretzat, zuretako guretzat, guretako zuentzat, zuendako
instrumental nitaz hitaz zutaz gutaz zuetaz
inessive nigan, niregan, nire baitan, nitan,
enegan, ene baitan 		higan, hiregan, hire baitan, hitan zugan, zuregan, zure baitan, zutan gugan, guregan, gure baitan, gutan zuengan, zuen baitan, zuetan
locative nire baitako, ene baitako hire baitako gu baitako, gure baitako zu baitako, zure baitako zuen baitako
allative niregana, nireganat, nire baitara, nire baitarat,
enegana, eneganat, ene baitara, ene baitarat 		hiregana, hireganat, hire baitara, hire baitarat zugana, zuregana, zuganat, zureganat,
zu baitara, zure baitara, zu baitarat, zure baitarat 		gugana, guregana, guganat, gureganat,
gu baitara, gure baitara, gu baitarat, gure baitarat 		zuengana, zuenganat,
zuen baitara, zuen baitarat
terminative nireganaino, nire baitaraino,
eneganaino 		higanaino, hireganaino,
hire baitaraino 		zuganaino, zureganaino,
zu baitaraino, zure baitaraino 		guganaino, gureganaino,
gu baitaraino, gure baitaraino 		zuenganaino,
zuen baitaraino
directive niganantz, nireganantz,
eneganantz 		higanantz, hireganantz zuganantz, zureganantz guganantz, gureganantz zuenganantz
destinative niganako, nireganako,
eneganako 		higanako, hireganako zuganako, zureganako guganako, gureganako zuenganako
ablative nireganik, niregandik, nire baitatik, nire baitarik,
eneganik, enegandik, ene baitatik, ene baitarik 		higanik, hireganik, higandik, hiregandik,
hire baitatik, hire baitarik 		zuganik, zureganik, zugandik, zuregandik,
zu baitatik, zu baitarik, zure baitatik, zure baitarik 		guganik, gureganik, gugandik, guregandik,
gu baitatik, gu baitarik, gure baitatik, gure baitarik 		zuenganik, zuengandik,
zuen baitatik, zuen baitarik
Emphatic pronouns
absolutive neu heu zeu geu zeuek
ergative neuk heuk zeuk geuk
dative neuri heuri zeuri geuri zeuei
genitive neure heure zeure geure zeuen
comitative neurekin heurekin zeurekin geurekin zeuekin
causative neugatik, neuregatik heugatik, heuregatik zugatik, zuregatik gugatik, guregatik zuengatik
benefactive neuretzat, neuretako heuretzat, heuretako zeuretzat, zeuretako geuretzat, geuretako zeuentzat, zeuendako
instrumental neutaz heutaz zeutaz geutaz zeuetaz
inessive neugan heuregan, heure baitan zeugan, zeuregan geugan, geuregan zeuengan
locative neure baitako heure baitako zeure baitako geure baitako zeuen baitako
allative neuregana heugana, heuregana, heure baitara, heure baitarat zeugana, zeuregana geugana, geuregana zeuengana
terminative neuregaino heuganaino, heureganaino, heure baitaraino zeuganaino, zeureganaino geuganaino, geureganaino zeuenganaino
directive neuganantz heuganantz, heureganantz zeuganantz, zeureganantz geuganantz, geureganantz zeuenganantz
destinative neureganako heuganako, heureganako zeuganako, zeureganako geuganako, geureganako zeuenganako
ablative neuganik, neugandik heuganik, heureganik, heugandik, heuregandik,
heure baitatik, heure baitarik 		zeuganik, zeureganik, zeugandik, zeuregandik geuganik, geureganik, geugandik, geuregandik zeuenganik, zeuengandik

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Further reading

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  • “ni”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
  • “ni”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Biloxi

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Noun

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ni

  1. Synonym of ani (“water”)

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Breton

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Etymology 1

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

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ni

  1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

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

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ni m (plural nied)

  1. nephew

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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ni

  1. neither, nor

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ni

  1. not even, even

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Noun

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ni f (plural nis)

  1. nu; the Greek letter Ν (lowercase ν)

Danish

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Danish cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ni
    Ordinal : niende

Etymology

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

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ni

  1. nine

Drung

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj.

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ni

  1. day

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

Dumbea

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ni

  1. they

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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

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ni

  1. this.

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ni

  1. this.

Esperanto

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Etymology

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

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

  1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)
    Ni batis lin.
    We hit him.
  2. ourselves
    Ni diris al ni.
    We said to ourselves.

French

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Etymology

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

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ni

  1. neither; nor
    • 1898, Revue du monde invisible, page 339:
      Notre imagination, si ardente qu’on la suppose, ne peut ni guérir instantanément une lésion organique, ni ressusciter un mort.
      Our imagination, so ardent as we suppose, can neither instantaneously heal an organic lesion, nor resuscitate the dead.
    • 1876, Bulletins et mémoires de la Société médicale des hôpitaux de Paris, Volume 12:
      […] les constitutions accidentelles ou intercurrentes ne sont ni moins importantes ni plus faciles à expliquer.
      […] accidental or intercurrent constitutions are neither less important nor easier to explain.
    • c. 1656–1662, Blaise Pascal, “Preuves par discours I – Papier original : RO 3-1 r° / v° et RO 7-1 r° / v°”, in Pensées [Thoughts]‎[6]:
      Mais nous ne connaissons ni l’existence ni la nature de Dieu, parce qu’il n’a ni étendue, ni bornes.
      But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because He has neither extent nor limits.

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  • 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”).

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Gothic

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Romanization

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ni

  1. Romanization of 𐌽𐌹

Hausa

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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nī

  1. I (1st person singular pronoun)

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  • mínì (1st person singular indirect object enclitic pronoun)
  • nì (1st person singular independent object pronoun)
  • -wá (1st person singular possessive enclitic pronoun)

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Native word of debated origin:[1]

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

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ni

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

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

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  1. ^ ni in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

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  • ni in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Idi

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Noun

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ni

  1. water

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Ido

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ni

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

Ingrian

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ni

  1. Alternative form of niin
    • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. I. Molotsova, Loonnontiito (ensimäin osa): oppikirja alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:
      Jot saavva tiitä mitä ono pintamaas, ni pittää tehä mokomat oopьtat.
      In order to get to know what is in the topsoil, (that's why) it's important to perform such experiments.

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

Interlingua

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Etymology

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

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ni

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

Italian

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

Etymology 1

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Blend of no +‎ sì.

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ni

  1. (informal) neither yes nor no

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ni m or f (invariable)

  1. nu (Greek letter)

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Japanese

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ni

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

Kamano

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Noun

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ni

  1. water

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  • The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN

Kansa

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Etymology

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From Proto-Siouan *wa-rį́• (“water”).

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ni

  1. water
  2. any liquid
  3. river

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Kedah Malay

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Etymology

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

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ni

  1. you (singular)

Klao

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Noun

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ni

  1. water

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  • World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2002, →ISBN

Laboya

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Noun

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ni

  1. coconut

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

Latin

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Etymology

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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.

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nī (not comparable)

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

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nī

  1. not, that not, unless; like ne in imperative and intentional clauses
    Ni quid tibi hinc in spem referas. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    Vinum aliudve quid ni laudato. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    Numa constituit, ut pisces, qui squamosi non essent, ni pollucerent ... ni qui ad polluctum emerent. ― Numa ordained scaleless fish not to be served nor bought for serving.

Ligurian

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Etymology

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From Latin nec.

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ni

  1. nor
  2. neither...nor
  3. either...or

Livonian

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Etymology

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

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ni

  1. now

Lolopo

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Etymology

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

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ni 

  1. (Yao'an) day

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

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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

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ni

  1. never

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Malay

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Etymology

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Shortened form of ini, from Proto-Malayic *(i)ni(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

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ni

  1. (colloquial) this (the (thing) here)
  2. (colloquial) this (known (thing) just mentioned)
  3. (colloquial) this (known (thing) about to be mentioned)
  4. (colloquial) this (known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience)

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ni

  1. (colloquial) this (The thing, item, etc. being indicated)

Mandarin

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Romanization

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ni

  1. Nonstandard spelling of nī.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of ní.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of nǐ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of nì.

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  • 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

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Etymology

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

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ni

  1. coconut tree
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Middle English

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Adverb

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ni

  1. Alternative form of ne

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ni

  1. Alternative form of ne

Middle Irish

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Particle

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ni

  1. Alternative spelling of ní

Mizo

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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ni

  1. sun
  2. day
  3. time

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Noun

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ni

  1. aunt

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Mohegan-Pequot

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Pronoun

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ni (first person singular)

  1. singular first-person pronoun I
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Pronoun

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ni

  1. second person singular pronoun you
    Shí dóó ni ayóo ałk’is niidlį́.
    You and I are really good friends.
  2. second person singular possessive pronoun yours
    Díí naaltsoos éí ni.
    This book is yours.

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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.

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Navajo personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person shí nihí danihí
2nd person ni nihí danihí
3rd person bí bí daabí
4th person (3a) hó hó daahó

Naxi

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja.

Noun

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ni

  1. fish

Etymology 2

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

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ni

  1. two

References

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  • Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

Ningil

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Noun

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ni

  1. water

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  • 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

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Norwegian Bokmål cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ni
    Ordinal : niende

Etymology

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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).

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ni

  1. nine

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ni
    Ordinal : niande

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Etymology

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From Old Norse níu.

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ni

  1. nine

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Nutabe

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Noun

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ni

  1. water

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Old High German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *ne.

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Particle

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ni

  1. not

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

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Particle

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ni

  1. Alternative spelling of ní

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Etymology

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From Proto-Siouan *wa-rį́• (“water”).

Noun

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ni

  1. water

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

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Etymology 1

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

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ni (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling نیۡ)

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

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

Etymology 2

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

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ni (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling نیۡ)

  1. these (agr: prox)

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

Etymology 3

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

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ni (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling نیۡ)

  1. it
  2. she (prox fem nom)

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

Etymology 4

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ni (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling نیۡ)

  1. they (prox nom)

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

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ni.

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ni

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of ani
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Particle

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ni

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of nie

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Noun

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ni n (indeclinable)

  1. Alternative form of ny

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  • ni in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ni in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek νῦ (nû).

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  • Hyphenation: ni

Noun

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ni m (plural nis)

  1. nu (the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet)

Proto-Norse

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Romanization

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ni

  1. Romanization of ᚾᛁ

Rawang

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ni

  1. to pour; to water.

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ni

  1. headhair.

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

Noun

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ni

  1. day (24 hour).
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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin.

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ni

  1. Alternative form of ne (dative of noi): to us
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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)
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Hungarian ni.

Interjection

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ni

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

Samoan

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Article

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ni

  1. some (plural indefinite article)

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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

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ni (Cyrillic spelling ни)

  1. (emphasizes negation) even, either
    ni ja to ne znam — even I don't know that; I don't know that either
    Nisam ni htio čuti njegov prijedlog.
    I didn't even want to hear his proposal.

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ni (Cyrillic spelling ни)

  1. (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

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Pronoun

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ni

  1. us, accusative of nuàutri
  2. us, dative of nuàutri
  3. us, reflexive of nuàutri

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nominative nuàutri
prepositional nuàutri
accusative ni
dative ni
reflexive ni
possessive nostru

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ní

  1. negative third-person singular present of bíti

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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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.

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ni

  1. (coordinating) neither... nor
    Antonym: o ... o
    No tengo ni dinero ni tiempo.
    I have neither money nor time.
    1. (with three or more referents) none of...
      Ni Juan, ni Pedro, ni Felipe te darán la razón.
      None of John, Peter, or Phillip will give you the reason.
  2. nor, or
    No descansa de día ni de noche.
    He doesn't rest during the day nor during the night.
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ni

  1. not even
    No descansaba ni por un minuto
    I didn't rest even for a minute.
    Ni yo sé qué significa esta palabra.
    Not even I know what this word means.
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Noun

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ni f (plural níes)

  1. nu; the Greek letter Ν, ν
    Synonym: ny

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Swahili

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ni

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

Swedish

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Etymology

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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.

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ni

  1. you (plural nominative)
    Du är bara en person, men ni där borta är fyra personer
    You are just one person, but you/you guys over there are four people
  2. you (second-person singular nominative formal) (capitalized Ni, rare in modern use)
    1. (obsolete) title used when addressing a person of lower social rank
      –Ni kan börja med att städa kontoret, fröken Andersson.
      –Javisst, Herr Direktör.
      –You can start with cleaning the office, miss Andersson.
      –Certainly, Mr. Director
    2. (colloquial, perceived formal, derogatory to some) by some considered a respectful alternative to du (“you”), especially when addressing customers or the elderly
      Vill ni ha en påse med köpet?
      Do you want a bag with your purchase?

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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.

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Swedish personal pronouns
Number Person Type Nominative Oblique Possessive
common neuter plural
singular first — jag mig, mej3 min mitt mina
second — du dig, dej3 din ditt dina
third masculine (person) han honom, han2, en5 hans
feminine (person) hon henne, na5 hennes
gender-neutral (person)1 hen hen, henom7 hens
common (noun) den den dess
neuter (noun) det det dess
indefinite man or en4 en ens
reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
plural first — vi oss vår, våran2 vårt, vårat2 våra
second — ni er er, eran2, ers6 ert, erat2 era
archaic I eder eder, eders6 edert edra
third — de, dom3 dem, dom3 deras
reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.
2Informal
4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.
5Informal, somewhat dialectal
6Formal address
7Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

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Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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

Preposition

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ni (plural nina, Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒ)

  1. of; possessive particle, used only with personal names
    bisikleta ni Juan ― Juan's bicycle
  2. objective marker for personal names, objective form of si; functional equivalent of ng
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Tagalog markers
Direct (ang) Indirect (ng) Oblique (sa)
Common Singular ang ng sa
Plural ang mga ng mga sa mga
Personal Singular si ni kay
Plural / Polite sina nina kina

Etymology 2

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

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ni (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒ)

  1. neither; nor
    Ni ako hindi nagsisigarilyo. ― Even I don't do cigarettes.
    Ni aso ni pusa. ― Neither dog nor cat.

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ni (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒ)

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

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Tarifit

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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ni (Tifinagh spelling ⵏⵉ)

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

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

Tokelauan

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

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ni

  1. Plural indefinite article; any
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Tokelauan articles
Impersonal
singular plural
Definite te nā
Indefinite he ni
Personal
Nominal Pronominal
Simple ia
After i/ki a a te
After mai ia te

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Particle

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ni

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

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

Unami

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Pronoun

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ni

  1. I

Ura (Vanuatu)

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ni

  1. tree

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  • Terry Crowley, Ura: A Disappearing Language of Southern Vanuatu (1999)

Uzbek

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Particle

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Other scripts
Cyrillic ни (ni)‍
Latin ‍
Perso-Arabic

ni

  1. accusative case marker; placed after the direct object of a transitive verb
    Men O'zbek tilini o'rganyapman.
    I am studying Uzbek.

Veps

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian ни (ni).

Determiner

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ni

  1. not, not a, no

Inflection

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Not inflected.

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ni ... ni

  1. neither ... nor

References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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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.

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ni

  1. (Central Vietnam) this

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ni

  1. (Central Vietnam) now

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Vietnamese demonstratives
Laurence Thompson (1965), Vietnamese Grammar
Unspecified Close to the
speaker or
newly introduced		 Remote,
already identified
PLACE
đ- (first register) 		đâu
‘wherever’ 		đây
‘here’ 		đấy
‘there’
REFERENCE
n- (second register) 		nào
‘whichever’ 		này
‘this’ 		nọ
‘that’
PROPORTION
b- (first register) 		bao
‘to whatever extent’ 		bây
‘to this extent’ 		bấy
‘to that extent’
MANNER
s- (first register)
v- (second register) 		sao
‘however’ 		vầy
‘this way’ 		vậy
‘that way’
Nguyễn Phú Phong (1992), “Vietnamese Demonstratives Revisited”
D•
(Indefinite)		 D1
(Proximal)		 D2
(Medial)		 D3
(Distal)
+NOM(inal) đâu
place-what 		đây
place-this 		đấy
place-that1
±NOM(inal) đó
(place-)that1 		kia
(place-)that2
–NOM(inal) nào
what 		nầy
this 		nấy/ấy
that1 		nọ
that2
Vietnamese demonstratives (alternative version)
Proximal
(*-iː) 		Distal 1
(*-iːʔ) 		Distal 2
(*-əːʔ) 		Distal 3/
Remote
(*-ɔːʔ) 		Interrogative
(rime was a rounded
back vowel)
Place, attributive1
n- 		ni
nì
này 		nấy nớ nọ nào
Place, nominal2
đ- 		đây đí
đấy 		— đó đâu
Manner
r- 		ri
rày 		— rứa — ru
sao3
Extent 14
b- 		bây bấy — — bao
Extent 25
v- 		vầy vậy — — —
1 Originally can only follow a nominal (being used attributively), hence nơi này (“this place; here”), nơi nào (“where”) (no longer completely true in the modern language).
2 Can be used on its own/is itself nominal, hence đây (“here”), đâu (“where”).
3 From earlier *C-raːw (where *C is nonspecific consonant).
4 Placed before the head: bây nhiêu (“this much”), bấy nhiêu (“that much”), bao nhiêu (“how much”).
5 Placed after the head: nhanh vầy (“this fast”), nhanh vậy (“that fast/so fast”).


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Etymology 1

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

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ni

  1. us; we

Etymology 2

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

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ni (triggers mixed mutation)

  1. (literary) not
    • 2004, Beibl Cymraeg Newydd Diwygiedig‎[14], Cymdeithas y Beibl, Genesis 21:26:
      Dywedodd Abimelech, “Ni wn i ddim pwy a wnaeth hyn; ni ddywedaist wrthyf, ac ni chlywais i sôn am y peth cyn heddiw.”
      Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this; you did not tell me, and I did not hear anything about it until today.”
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  • 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”).[1]
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  1. ^ Gareth King, editor (2000), “ni”, in Pocket Modern Oxford Welsh Dictionary: Welsh-English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

West Makian

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ni (possessive prefix ni)

  1. second-person singular pronoun, you

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West Makian personal pronouns
independent possessive prefix
1st person singular de ti
2nd person singular ni ni
3rd person singular me mVan., dVinan.
1st person plural inclusive ene nV
1st person plural exclusive imi mi
2nd person plural ini fi
3rd person plural eme di

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

Yil

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ni

  1. water

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  • 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

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Etymology 1

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IPA(key): /nĩ́/

Noun

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ní

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.
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IPA(key): /nĩ́/

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ní

  1. (transitive) to have

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IPA(key): /nĩ́/

Preposition

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ní

  1. at, in (used when no movement is implied)
  2. preposition used for creating adverbials
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Etymology 4

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IPA(key): /nĩ́/

Verb

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ní

  1. (intransitive) to say
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Etymology 5

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IPA(key): /nĩ̄/

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ni

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

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

  1. (intransitive) to be bloated, to be tumid

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Zou

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Etymology 1

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Ni.

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

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ni

  1. sun

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Zou cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : ni

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

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ni

  1. two

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

Zulu

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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-ni?

  1. what (kind of)
Inflection
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Enumerative concord, tone H
Modifier
Class 1 muni
Class 2 bani
Class 3 muni
Class 4 mini
Class 5 lini
Class 6 mani
Class 7 sini
Class 8 zini
Class 9 yini
Class 10 zini
Class 11 luni
Class 14 buni
Class 15 kuni
Class 17 kuni

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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-ni

  1. Combining stem of nina.

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