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{{also|Appendix:Variations of "ne"}}
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==Translingual==

===Symbol===
{{mul-symbol}}

# {{ISO 639|1}}

==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/nə/}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ne.wav|a=Southern England}}
<!--No ə rhyme: can't rhyme an unstressed word.-->

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|en|enm|ne}}, from {{inh|en|ang|ne}}, from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|en|ine-pro|*ne}}.

Cognates include {{cog|got|𐌽𐌹}}, {{cog|la|ne|nē}}, {{cog|sa|न}}, {{cog|bg|-}}, {{cog|sh|-}} and {{cog|ru|не}}, {{cog|lt|ne}}, {{cog|ga|ní}}.

====Adverb====
{{en-adv|-}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[not|Not]].
#* '''c1500''', ''{{w|Melusine}} (translation)'':
#*: For she '''ne''' dare doo, but to commande.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1512|author=w:Robert Copland|title=The History of Helyas, Knight of The Swan|url=https://books.google.ru/books?id=WHd1iysiTtYC&pg=PP13&dq=The+History+of+Helyas&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu9aPZ8s_WAhXqJZoKHZfPCNsQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=The%20History%20of%20Helyas&f=false
|passage=And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the '''ne''' dyed for sorowe / wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge.}}
#* '''c1520''', ''[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=156983 Andria by Terence] (translation)'':
#*: This shold haue bene his skuce at the lest / And it '''ne''' had bene but good & honest.
#* '''c1520''', ''[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=189845 Andria by Terence] (translation)'':
#*: O so incessaunt thow ad in thy desyre / For so that thow thy mynde now mayst haue / Thow '''ne''' caryst what thow dost requyre.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1550|title=w:The Mirror for Magistrates
|passage=For he '''ne''' had, nor could increase his line.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1562|author={{w|Arthur Brooke (poet)|Arthur Brooke}}|title=w:The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
|passage=In geving me to him whom I '''ne''' can, '''ne''' may, '''ne''' ought to love.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1576|author=w:William Lambarde|title=A perambulation of Kent|url=https://books.google.ru/books/about/A_Perambulation_of_Kent.html?id=t2gOAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
|passage=Mary (quoth the king) so might me mine, '''ne''' haddest thou been Earle Godwine: casting in his dish the murder of his brother Alfred, which was done to death at Elie by the Counsell of Godwine.}}
#* {{RQ:Spenser Shepheardes Calender|text='''Ne''' durst again his fieri face out-show.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1587|author=George Gascoigne; Francis Kinwelmershe|title=[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=1793675 Jocasta]
|passage=Ioc: How can that be and thou my ioy in warre? Po: Henceforth '''n''''am I your ioy ne yet your sonne.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=c. 1590|author={{w|William Fowler (makar)|William Fowler}}|url=https://books.google.ru/books/about/The_Works_of_William_Fowler.html?id=1a0LAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y|title=The Works of William Fowler
|passage=What happs might chance me I '''ne''' knewe.}}
#* {{RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene|text=His forces faile, '''ne''' can no lenger fight.}}
#* {{RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene|text=As when a ship, that flyes faire vnder saile, / An hidden rocke escaped hath vnwares, / That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile, / The Marriner yet halfe amazed stares / At perill past, and yet it doubt '''ne''' dares / To ioy at his foole-happie ouersight.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1591|author={{w|John Phillip (poet)|John Phillip}}|title=[[iarchive:commemorationonl00philrich|A Commemoration on the Life and Death of the Right Honourable, Sir Christopher Hatton]]
|passage=And now sweete death most welcome vnto mee, thy stroakes '''ne''' can, '''ne''' shall me once dismay.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1592|author={{w|Robert Greene (dramatist)|Robert Greene}}|title=w:A Looking Glass for London
|passage=And twenty thousand infants that '''ne''' wot the right hand from the left.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1607|author=w:Thomas Walkington|title=The Optick Glasse of Humors|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A14665.0001.001?rgn=subject;view=toc;q1=Temperament+--+Early+works+to+1800
|passage=But when he spoke, his plenteous words did flow / Like to thick-falling flakes of winter snow, / '''Ne''' any couth his wit so hiely straine.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1614|author=w:John Davies of Hereford|title=Eclogue Between Young Willy the SInger of His Native Pastorals, and Old Wernocke His Friend|url=https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/eclogue-between-young-willy-singer-his-native-pastorals-and-old-wernocke-his-friend
|passage=Now, siker ( Wernocke ) thou hast split the marke / Albe that I '''ne''' wot I han mis-song: / But, for I am so yong, I dread my warke / Woll be misualued both of old and yong.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1812|author=w:Lord Byron|title=w:Childe Harold's Pilgrimage|section=Canto I, 2
|passage=Whilom in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth, / Who '''ne''' in virtue's ways did take delight [...].}}

====Conjunction====
{{en-con}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[nor|Nor]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1484|author=Original Letters|title=King Edward the Fifth, under the direction of his Uncle, to Otes Gilbert, Esq., commanding him to receive Knighthood at the expected Coronation|url=https://books.google.ru/books?id=Blq9ogz-KJcC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=that+than+i+shall+not+geve+therunto+faith+ne+credence,&source=bl&ots=3rOYLKaR4W&sig=hPutih2mx_n1We3DgdFJYq8RDr8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_tLfP8c7WAhWmBZoKHc8fBwIQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=that%20than%20i%20shall%20not%20geve%20therunto%20faith%20ne%20credence%2C&f=false
|passage=That than I shall not geve therunto faith '''ne''' credence, nor therfore put them to any maner ponyssement, before that they or any of them so accused may be at their lawful defence and answer.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1489|title=The gouernayle of helthe|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=4185309
|passage=And therin is no drede nor bytternes '''ne''' expences, but therin is pure recreacyon of body and of soule soo it be donn in clene places.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1489|title=The gouernayle of helthe|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=4187018
|passage=Be not to hasty '''ne''' sodenly vengeable, to poure folke doo no vyolence.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1489|title=The gouernayle of helthe|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=4188215
|passage=Moreouer no man be so hardy to drynk fastyng cold water, '''ne''' after that he hath accompanyed wyth a woman, '''ne''' after gret trauayle, '''ne''' after exersice tyll he haue fyrst rested hym, '''ne''' by nyght namely yf he haue do gloue tofore.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1500|title=The Example of Euyll Tongues
|passage=A false tonge wyll euer Imagyne and saye / That neuer by creature was sayd '''ne''' thought.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1509|author=w:Wynkyn de Worde|title=The fyftene joyes of maryage|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A05124.0001.001
|passage=For chastyce can he not by daye '''ne''' nyght his wyfe but by his betynge maketh lyght and hote the loue bytwene her and her frende.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1511|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=8739251|title=The Records of the City of Norwich
|passage=Item, that noo woman nor maide weyve any worsted stamynges '''ne''' sayes for that that thei be nott of sufficient powre to werke the said worsteddes as thei owte to be wrought, upon payne of iij s iiij d as often as thei be founde wevyng to be devyded and leuyed in maner and forme aboue expressed.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1520|author=w:Richard Pynson|title=The Lyfe of The Blessed Martyr Saynte Thomas|url=https://books.google.ru/books?id=jpVdnQAACAAJ&dq=The+Lyfe+of+The+Blessed+Martyr+Saynte+Thomas&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjz9YHArdDWAhWHApoKHZYPBo0Q6AEIKjAA
|passage=That they shulde no lenger kepe '''ne''' susteyne Thomas the archebysshope.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1526|title=The Grete Herball|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=418840
|passage=The rote ought to be gadered in the begynnynge of somer and dryed in the sonne bycause [tha]¬t it corrupt '''ne''' rotte bycause of the moystnesse[,] & it may be kept two yeres;}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1535|author=w:Thomas Elyot|title=The Education or Bringing up of Children
|passage=For lyinge is a detestable vice, and to be hated of all men, '''ne''' to be suffred amonge seruantis '''ne''' other persones[,] howe poure estate so euer they be of.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1542|author=w:Nicholas Udall|title= {{w|Apophthegmatum opus|Apophthegms}} (translation)
|passage=Thus some persones beeyng inuited and exhorted to falle to the studie of lettres, make their excuse that thei bee sickely, that thei can not slepe '''ne''' take their naturall reste in the nightes.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1558|author=w:Thomas Phaer|title= {{w|The Aeneid}} (translation)
|passage=We  Moores  be not so base of wit, '''ne''' yet so blunt of mynd.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1560|author=Edward Gosynhill|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=1242351|title=The Schoolhouse of Women
|passage=The deuyll gossyp, ought me a shame / And prayde I am nowe, euerye penye I wolde god he had, be blinde and lame / The daye and houre, he fyrste woed me / Ware not gossyp, these chyldren thre I wolde not tary, ye may be sure / Longer with hym, daye '''ne''' houre.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1562|author={{w|Arthur Brooke (poet)|Arthur Brooke}}|title=w:The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
|passage=Neither extremitie, '''ne''' gentle meanes could boote; she hydeth close within her brest, her secret sorowes roote.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1562|author={{w|Arthur Brooke (poet)|Arthur Brooke}}|title=w:The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
|passage='''Ne''' on her teares or plaint, at all to have remorse, but (if they can not with her will,) to bring the mayde perforce.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1570|author=w:John Thynne|title=The Debate betweene Pride and Lowlines|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=4715372
|passage=His hart encreaseth not thereby '''ne''' lesseth as edoon these fooles.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1577|title=The Hereford Municipal Manuscript|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=1720727
|passage=And that no victualer '''ne''' other person or persons forestall any kynde of victualls cominge to the said Cyty or within the precyncte of the same before the same victualls be come to the place.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1587|author=George Gascoigne; Francis Kinwelmershe|title=[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=1793675 Jocasta]
|passage=Ioc: How can that be and thou my ioy in warre? Po: Henceforth n'am I your ioy '''ne''' yet your sonne.}}
#* {{RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene|III|1|passage=But to her cry they list not lenden eare, / '''Ne''' ought the more their mightie strokes surceasse.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1634|author=W. Lathum
|passage=Whose worth all outward is in shew alone / But inward sent hath not, '''ne''' vertue none.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1798|author=w:Samuel Coleridge|title=The Rime of the Ancient Mariner|section=ll. 443-6
|passage=The pang, the curse, with which they died, / Had never pass'd away; / I could not draw my een from theirs / '''Ne''' turn them up to pray.}}

=====Usage notes=====
* ''Ne'' survives only as part of the [[oral tradition]] in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is almost never used in common speech.

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|ne exeat}}

===Etymology 2===

====Adverb====
{{head|en|symbol}}

# {{lb|en|stenoscript}} {{abbreviation of|en|any}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=en|-en|en-|en|EN|En}}

{{cln|en|two-letter words}}

==Abinomn==

===Noun===
{{head|bsa|noun|dual|nerom|plural|nekon}}

# [[arrow]] (projectile)

==Afar==

===Pronunciation===
* {{aa-IPA|né}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|aa|pronoun|cat2=personal pronouns|head=né}}

# [[we]], [[us]]

====Usage notes====
* The form {{m|aa|nee|née}} is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.

====See also====
{{aa-personal pronouns}}

===References===
* {{R:aa:Parker:1985|+}}

==Ainu==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ain|/ne/}}

===Verb===
{{ain-verb|l|{{ain-kana-conv}}}}

# {{lb|ain|intransitive|copulative}} to [[be]], [[become]]
#: {{usex|ain|Ainu '''ne''' ruwe ne.|He '''is''' an Ainu.}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|ain|newa||and}}

===See also===
* {{l|ain|an||to exist}}

==Albanian==

===Alternative forms===
* {{qualifier|Gheg}} {{l|sq|na}} <ref>[https://archive.org/details/fialuurivoghels00junggoog Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 85], by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, [[w:Shkodër|Sckoder]]</ref>
* {{alter|sq|në}}

===Etymology===
The nominative-accusative is from accusative {{inh|sq|sqj-pro|*nōs}}, stressed form of clitic {{inh|sq|ine-pro|*éǵh₂|*nos}}, which is continued by the clitic {{m|sq|na}}.<ref>{{R:sq:Orel:1998|page=289}}</ref> {{m|sq|neve|Neve}} and {{m|sq|nesh}} are innovated, but [[Gheg]] retains dative {{m|sq|nahe}} (Old Albanian {{m|sq|nae}}) from a genitive {{m|und|*nosōm}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|sq|[nɛ]}}

===Pronoun===
{{sq-personal pronoun|ne|neve|nesh}}

# [[we]], [[us]]

====Declension====
{{sq-decl-personal pronoun}}

===See also===
{{sq-personal pronouns}}

===References===
<references/>

==Blagar==

===Noun===
{{head|beu|nouns}}

# [[human]], [[person]]

===References===
* A. Schapper, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=dvPnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA179 The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1]''

==Breton==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|br|cel-bry-pro|*ni}}.

===Particle===
{{head|br|particles}}

# [[not]]

====Usage notes====
Used combined with {{m|br|ket}}, mirroring French {{m|fr|ne}} ... {{m|fr|pas}}.

==Catalan==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ca|/nə/|a=Balearic,Central}}
* {{IPA|ca|/ne/|a=Valencian,Algherese}}

===Pronoun===
{{ca-ppron|type=encl|encl_con='n|procl=en|procl_con=n'}}

# {{n-g|represents an indeterminate number or quantity of a given noun}}
# {{n-g|represents a place (associated with the action described by the verb) that would be introduced by the preposition {{m|ca|de}}}}
# {{n-g|replaces a phrase introduced by the preposition {{m|ca|de}}}}
# {{n-g|replaces the object of a [[causative]] verb}}

====Usage notes====
* ''ne'' cannot be used more than once as the object of a given verb.
* While ''ne'' is usually used to replace phrases beginning with the preposition {{m|ca|de}}, adverbial phrases (eg {{m|ca|de pressa}}) are replaced with {{m|ca|hi}}.
* ''ne'' is sometimes used instead of {{m|ca|ho}} to replace an adjective or indefinite noun as the predicate of a verb.
* ''ne'' is sometimes used popularly to add emphasis to a sentence: in this sense, it has no translation in English.
* {{U:ca:pronouns|form=full}}

====See also====
{{ca-decl-ppron}}

==Chuukese==

===Conjunction===
{{head|chk|conjunctions}}

# [[to]] (connects verbs)

===Preposition===
{{head|chk|prepositions}}

# Expressing a fraction or a ratio. Preceded by a nominator and followed by the denominator.

==Czech==

===Etymology===
inherited from {{inh|cs|zlw-ocs|ne}}, from {{inh|cs|sla-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|cs|ine-bsl-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|cs|ine-pro|*ne}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{cs-IPA}}
* {{audio|cs|Cs-ne.ogg}}

===Interjection===
{{head|cs|interjection}}

# [[no]]!

===Particle===
{{head|cs|particles}}

# [[not]]

===See also===
* {{l|cs|ano}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:cs:PSJC}}
* {{R:cs:SSJC}}

==Dalmatian==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|dlm|la|nec}}, {{m|la|neque}}. Compare {{cog|it|nè}}, {{cog|es|-}}, {{cog|ca|-}} and {{cog|fr|ni}}, {{cog|ro|nici}}.

===Adverb===
{{head|dlm|adverbs}}

# [[neither]]

==Deg==

===Noun===
{{head|mzw|nouns}}

# [[water]]

===References===
* Maurice Delafosse, ''[http://archive.org/details/vocabulairescom00delagoog Vocabulaires comparatifs de plus de 60 langues ou dialectes parlés à la Côte d’Ivoire et dans les régions limitrophes : avec des notes linguistiques et ethnologiques, une bibliographie et une carte]'' (Paris, E. Leroux, 1904), page 231

==Dutch==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alt|nl|nen||before vowels and ''b'', ''d'' and ''t''}}

===Etymology===
From {{m|nl|nen}} through [[apocope]], itself a contraction of {{m|nl|eenen}}, {{m|nl|enen}}, the now-obsolete accusative form of {{m|nl|een}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nl|/nə/}}
* {{audio|nl|Nl-ne.ogg}}
* {{hyph|nl|ne}}
* {{rhymes|nl|ə}}

===Article===
{{head|nl|articles}}

# {{lb|nl|Belgium|colloquial}} [[a]], [[an]]
#: {{ux|nl|'''ne''' man|translation=a man}}

====Usage notes====
{{m|nl||ne}} is used primarily in dialects that retain the three-way gender split. It is only used for masculine words, while {{m|nl|een}} is used for feminine and neuter words.

The form {{m|nl|nen}} is used before vowels (as the English {{m|en|an}}) and certain consonants (commonly ''b'', ''d'' and ''t''), differing from dialect to dialect.

===See also===
* {{l|nl|den}}

===Anagrams===
* {{l|nl|en}}

==Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl==

===Determiner===
{{head|nhe|determiners}}

# [[that]].

===Pronoun===
{{head|nhe|pronouns}}

# [[that]].

==Esperanto==

===Etymology===
From {{bor|eo|fr|ne}}, {{bor|eo|pl|nie}}, {{bor|eo|ru|не}}, etc.

===Pronunciation===
{{eo-IPA|ne}}

===Particle===
{{head|eo|particles}}

# [[no]]
# [[not]]
# [[non-]]

====Antonyms====
* {{l|eo|ja}}
* {{l|eo|jes}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|eo|nei||to say no, to deny}}
* {{l|eo|nee||rejectingly, denyingly, with the word no}}
* {{l|eo|nea||negative, denying, rejecting}}
* {{l|eo|kapnei||to shake one's head no}}

{{eo BRO|1}}

==Finnish==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|fi|urj-fin-pro|*nek}}, from {{der|fi|urj-pro|*ne}} + {{m|urj-pro|*-k|pos=dual ending}}. Compare {{cog|myv|не}}, {{m|myv|неть}}.

The inflectional stem ''nii-'' derives from the same stem with the plural infix ({{m|fi|-i-|id=plural}}), through an older *''nij-'' (< *''ne-j-''). Compare also {{m|fi|se|id=demonstrative}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{fi-p|a=LL-Q1412 (fin)-Susannaanas-ne.wav}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|fi|pronoun|plural||stem|[[ne|nii-]]}}

# {{lb|fi|demonstrative|of things and animals}} {{infl of|fi|se||nom|p}}: [[they]], [[those]] {{gloss|objects not pointed at by the speaker}}
# {{lb|fi|colloquial|dialectal|of people}} {{infl of|fi|se||nom|p}}: [[they]]
#: {{syn|fi|he}}

===Determiner===
{{head|fi|determiners}}

# {{infl of|fi|se||nom|p}}: [[those]] {{gloss|not pointed at by the speaker}}
#: {{ux|fi|Tässä '''ne''' kirjat nyt ovat.|This is where '''those''' books are now.}}

====Usage notes====
See the usage notes under {{m|fi|se|id=demonstrative}}.

====Inflection====
The case suffixes are mostly regular (except the inessive and elative singular). Abessive is never used in the singular and extremely seldom in the plural. Instructive {{m|fi||niin}} is more or less a theoretical construction, since it has developed into an adverb, and its current meaning cannot be derived from {{m|fi||ne}}.
{{fi-decl-pron/se}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|fkv|net}}
* {{desc|fit|net}}

====See also====
{{fi-demonstratives}}
{{fi-personal pronouns}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:KTSK|accessdate=2023-07-03}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|fi|a=en|-en|en}}

{{cln|fi|demonstrative pronouns}}

==French==

===Etymology===
From {{cog|frm|-}}, from {{inh|fr|fro|nen}} or {{m|fro|ne}} preceding words starting in a consonant, from {{inh|fr|la|non|nōn}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{audio|fr|Fr-ne.ogg}}
* {{rhymes|fr|ə|s=1}}

===Particle===
{{head|fr|particles}}

# {{lb|fr|literary}} [[not]] (used alone to negate a verb; now chiefly with only a few particular verbs: see [[#usage notes|usage notes]])
#* '''1713''', {{w|Voltaire}}, letter, Dec 1713:
#*: {{quote|fr|Je '''ne''' sais si je dois vous appeler Monsieur ou Mademoiselle {{...}}.|I don't know if I should call you Mr or Miss.}}
#* {{quote-text|fr|year=1826|author=w:Victor Hugo|title=Bug-Jargal|section=XXXVIII
|passage=Le prince de France nous aime, celui d'Espagne '''ne''' cesse de nous secourir.|t=The prince of France loves us, that of Spain never stops helping us.}}
#* {{quote-text|fr|year=1868|author=w:Emile Zola|title=Madeleine Férat
|passage=Je '''n{{'}}'''ose te jurer que je t'aime toujours, parce que je sens bien que tu ne me croirais pas.|t=I dare not swear that I still love you, for I sense that you would not believe me.}}
#* {{quote-text|fr|year=1943|author=w:Jean-Paul Sartre|title=Réflexions sur la question juive
|passage=Mais je ne le crois pas : un homme qui trouve naturel de dénoncer des hommes '''ne''' peut avoir notre conception de l'humain {{...}}.|t=But I don't think so: a man who finds it natural to denounce men cannot have our idea of being human.}}
#* {{quote-text|fr|year=1963|author=w:Françoise Hardy|title=L'Amour s'en va
|passage=L'amour s'en va, et le tien '''ne''' saurait durer.|t=Love goes away, and yours will '''not''' be able to last.}}
# [[not]], [[no]] (used before a verb, with a coordinating negative element usually following; see Usage Notes, below)
#* {{quote-text|fr|year=1851|author=w:Henri Murger|title=Le pays latin
|passage=Je '''ne''' sais rien de plus odieux que l'hypocrisie.|t=I don't know anything more odious than hypocrisy.}}
#* {{quote-text|fr|year=1998|author=w:Michel Houellebecq|title=Les Particules Élémentaires
|passage=Bruno se rendit compte qu'il '''ne''' serait jamais accepté par les ''hippies'' {{...}}.|t=Bruno realised that he'd never be accepted by the hippies.}}
#* {{quote-journal|fr|journal=Le Monde|date=3 May 2012
|passage="Il '''n{{'}}'''y a pas eu un truc auquel on '''ne''' s'attendait pas", affirme Stéphane Le Foll.|t="There wasn't anything we weren't expecting," stated Stéphane Le Foll.}}
# {{n-g|Used in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb (especially when the main verb expresses doubt or fear), to provide extra overtones of doubt or uncertainty (but not negating its verb); the so-called "pleonastic" or "expletive" ''ne''.}}
#* {{quote-text|fr|year=1829|author=w:Victor Hugo|title=Le Derner Jour d'un Condamné|section=XXVII
|passage=Ah! mes cheveux blanchiront avant que ma tête '''ne''' tombe!|t=Oh! My hair will go white before my head falls!}}
#* {{quote-text|fr|year=1837|author=w:George Sand|title=Mauprat
|passage=Oui, mais je crains qu'elle '''ne''' soit plus malade qu'elle '''ne''' l'avoue, repartit l'abbé.|t="Yes, but I think she might be more ill than she's letting on," the priest replied.}}
# {{n-g|In comparative clauses usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative}}
#: {{ux|fr|Apprendre le français est plus facile qu'on '''ne''' pense.|Learning French is easier than you (might) think.}}

====Usage notes====
* Typically, {{m|fr||ne}} follows the subject and is itself followed by the verb and:
** a negative adverbial ({{m|fr|pas||not; don't/doesn't}}, {{m|fr|plus||no more, no longer}}, {{m|fr|jamais||never}}, {{m|fr|guère||hardly}}, or (now literary) {{m|fr|point||not a bit}});
** a nominal element modified by a negative determiner ({{m|fr|aucun}} or {{m|fr|nul}}, both meaning "no", "not a") — note that these phrases can take on nominal, pronominal or adverbial functions;
** More mobile are negative pronouns, the most common being {{m|fr|personne||nobody}} and {{m|fr|rien||nothing}}, which will follow {{m|fr||ne}} and the verb if they function as the object complement of that verb, but if they are the subject of a given clause, they will usually sit at its head:
*: {{ux|inline=1|fr|Personne ne s'en souviendra demain.|Nobody will remember about it tomorrow.}}
*: {{ux|inline=1|fr|Rien ne le dérange.|Nothing bothers him.}}
* In literary French (i.e., the most formal variety of the written language) certain verbs can be negated with {{m|fr||ne}} alone (without another negating element like {{m|fr|pas}}). Nowadays, this list is restricted chiefly to the verbs {{m|fr|pouvoir}}, {{m|fr|savoir}}, {{m|fr|cesser}}, {{m|fr|oser}}, and {{m|fr|daigner}}. Less formal registers still require coordination with another negative element.
* In colloquial (i.e., spoken) French, {{m|fr||ne}} is often omitted, leaving the other negating element ({{m|fr|pas}}, {{m|fr|plus}}, {{m|fr|rien}}, {{m|fr|personne}}, etc.) to indicate the sentence's negative state on its own (unless more than one of these elements is already present).
*: {{ux|inline=1|fr|Je veux pas ça.|I don't want that.}}
*: {{ux|inline=1|fr|Il attend personne.|He's not waiting for anyone.}}
*: {{ux|inline=1|fr|J'en ai plus besoin.|I don't need it anymore.}}
*: {{ux|inline=1|fr|On va nulle part.|We're not going anywhere.}}
: In some regions, {{m|fr||ne}} has disappeared from spoken language either entirely or nearly so. Even when it ''is'' included in spoken form, the weak "e" is often elided, causing the remaining {{IPAchar|/n/}} to assimilate into nearby words. Compare a few possible versions of the above example, {{m|fr||Je veux pas ça}}, more or less rising in levels of formality:
:: {{lang|fr|J' veux pas ça.}} {{IPAchar|/ʒ‿vø pɑ sa/}}
:: {{lang|fr|Je veux pas ça.}} {{IPAchar|/ʒə vø pɑ sa/}}
:: {{lang|fr|Je n' veux pas ça.}} {{IPAchar|/ʒə̃ vø pɑ sa/}}
:: {{lang|fr|Je ne veux pas ça.}} {{IPAchar|/ʒə nə vø pɑ sa/|/ʒə‿n.vø pɑ sa/}}

===See also===
* {{l|fr|guère}}
* {{l|fr|jamais}}
* {{l|fr|pas}}
* {{l|fr|personne}}
* {{l|fr|plus}}
* {{l|fr|point}}
* {{l|fr|que}}
* {{l|fr|rien}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}
* {{pedia|French grammar#Negation|French grammar: Negation}}

===Anagrams===
* {{l|fr|en}}

==German==

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|de|gmh|ne}}, {{m|gmh|ni|t=not, if not}}, from {{inh|de|goh|ne}}, {{m|goh|ni|t=no, not, not at all, by no means}}, from {{inh|de|gmw-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|de|gem-pro|*ne|t=not}}, from {{inh|de|ine-pro|*ne|t=not}}. Also possibly from a contraction of {{m|de|nicht}}, dialectal {{m|de|net}}, {{m|de|nit}}, {{m|de|ni}}.

====Pronunciation====
* {{IPA|de|/nə/}}

====Particle====
{{head|de|particle}}

# {{senseid|de|tag question}} {{lb|de|colloquial|regional|Northern Germany|North Rhine-Westphalia}} [[right]]?; is it?; is it not?; [[tag question]]
#: {{syn|de|gell|oder|wa|Thesaurus:nicht wahr}}
#: {{ux|de|Wir müssen da lang, '''ne?''' |We need to go that way, '''don't we?'''}}
#: {{ux|de|Du hast keine Geschwister, '''ne?'''|You don't have siblings, '''do you?'''}}

===Etymology 2===

====Pronunciation====
* {{IPA|de|/neː/}}

====Interjection====
{{head|de|interjection}}

# {{senseid|de|no}} {{alternative spelling of|de|nee}}

===Etymology 3===

====Pronunciation====
* {{IPA|de|/nə/}}

====Article====
{{head|de|articles}}

# {{senseid|de|indefinite article}} {{alternative spelling of|de|'ne}}

==German Low German==

===Article===
{{head|nds-de|article form|g=f}}

# {{lb|nds-de|Paderbornisch}} {{infl of|nds-de|en||nom//acc|f|s}}: [[a]]

===Pronoun===
{{head|nds-de|pronoun form|g=m}}

# {{lb|nds-de|Paderbornisch}} {{infl of|nds-de|hei||weak|acc}}: [[him]]

====See also====
* {{l|nds-de|iähne}}

==Gothic==

===Romanization===
{{got-rom|head=nē}}

# {{romanization of|got|𐌽𐌴}}

==Hungarian==

===Pronunciation===
* {{hu-IPA}}
* {{audio|hu|Hu-ne.ogg}}
* {{rhymes|hu|nɛ|s=1}}

===Adverb===
{{head|hu|adverbs}}

# [[don't]], [[should]]/[[shall]] [[not]], [[stop]] (doing something)
#: {{ux|inline=1|hu|'''Ne''' hallgass rá!|'''Don't''' listen to him!}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|hu|'''Ne''' felejtsd el! ''or (more emphatically)'' El '''ne''' felejtsd!|(Mind you) '''don't''' forget it!}}
#: {{uxi|hu|Miért '''ne'''? (&#61; Miért '''ne''' csináljuk/tegyük?)|Why '''not'''?|lit=Why '''shouldn't''' [we do it]?}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|hu|Bár '''ne''' tettem volna!|I wish I had'''n't''' done it.}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|hu|'''Ne''' lopj!|Thou '''shalt not''' steal.}}

====Usage notes====
Used before the verb in an imperative clause (or sometimes a conditional clause expressing a wish or desire) to negate that clause; {{m|hu||ne}} is always used instead of {{m|hu|nem}} in the imperative mood.

====Derived terms====
{{col3|hu|title=Compound words
|nebáncsvirág
|nehogy
|nemulass
|netalán
|netovább
}}
{{col3|hu|title=Expressions
|ajándék lónak ne nézd a fogát
|akinek nem inge, ne vegye magára
|akinek vaj van a fején, ne menjen a napra
|aki nem dolgozik, ne is egyék
|amit ma megtehetsz, ne halaszd holnapra
|félreértés ne essék
|hogy egyik szavam a másikba ne öltsem
|ne igyál előre a medve bőrére
|ne keltsd fel az alvó oroszlánt
|ne szólj, szám, nem fáj fejem
|ne zavartasd magad
|soha ne add fel
|tisztesség ne essék szólván
}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:ErtSz|1}}

{{cln|hu|two-letter words}}

==Ido==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|io|/ne/|/nɛ/}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{der|io|eo|ne}}, from {{der|io|fr|ne}}, {{der|io|ru|не}}.

====Adverb====
{{head|io|adverbs}}

# [[not]], [[don’t]]

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|io|ne-||non-, un-, in-, im-, ir- (etc.)}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{suffix|io|n|e<id:consonant>}}.

====Noun====
{{head|io|noun|plural|ne-i}}

# {{n-g|The name of the [[Appendix:Latin script|Latin script]] letter '''[[N]]'''/'''[[n]]'''.}}

=====See also=====
* {{list:Latin script letter names/io}}

==Ingrian==

===Pronunciation===
* {{izh-p}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|izh|pronouns}}

# {{alternative form of|izh|neet}}
#* {{RQ:izh:Geografia-1:1936|Miltaisee poolee '''ne''' ollaa opettajast?|On which side of the teacher are '''they'''?|page=6}}

===Determiner===
{{head|izh|determiners}}

# {{alternative form of|izh|neet}}

===References===
* {{R:izh:Nirvi:1971|page=338}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|izh|en}}

==Isthmus Zapotec==

===Conjunction===
{{head|zai|conjunctions}}

# [[and]]

==Istro-Romanian==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|ruo|la|nix}}, {{m|la|nivem}}, through Proto-Romanian (compare {{cog|ro|nea}}, {{cog|rup|neao}}), from {{inh|ruo|itc-pro|*sniks}}, from {{inh|ruo|ine-pro|*snígʷʰs||snow}}, root noun derived from {{m|ine-pro|*sneygʷʰ-||to snow}}.

===Noun===
{{head|ruo|noun|g=f|definite|nevu|genitive/dative|lu nevu}}

# [[snow]]

==Italian==

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|it|la|inde||thence}}. Compare {{cog|fr|en|pos=adverb, pronoun}}.

====Alternative forms====
* {{alter|it|-ne||enclitic form}}

====Pronunciation====
{{it-pr|°ne°|#ne°}}
* In modern usage but not traditional usage, this word actively blocks {{w|syntactic gemination}} of its initial consonant. Hence {{m|it|però}} {{m|it|ne}} {{m|it|prendo||I (will) take some}} is pronounced {{IPAchar|/peˈrɔ ne ˈprɛndo/}} in modern usage, but {{IPAchar|/peˈrɔ‿nne ˈprɛndo/}} traditionally, since {{m|it|però}} normally triggers syntactic gemination.

====Adverb====
{{it-adv}}

# [[from]] [[there]]
#: {{ux|it|Si chiuse in casa e non '''ne''' uscì per giorni.|He shut himself in the house, and didn't come out for days.|lit=He locked himself in house, and didn't '''from there''' come out for days.}}

=====Usage notes=====
* The adverb {{m|it|ne}} replaces {{m|it|di}} {{m|it|là||from there}}:
: {{ux|it|Sono di Genova; '''ne''' sono venuto stamattina.|I am from Genoa; I came '''from there''' this morning.}}

====Pronoun====
{{head|it|pronouns}}

# from [[this]]; from [[that]]; from [[these]]; from [[those]], {{n-g|sometimes not translated in English}}
#: {{ux|it|Furono mesi di lavoro sfibrante, ma '''ne''' venne fuori un gran film.|There were months of exhausting work, but a great movie came out '''of those'''.}}
# [[about]] this; about that; about these; about those
#: {{ux|it|'''Ne''' abbiamo parlato, ma non sono sicuro che abbia capito.|We talked '''about that''', but I'm not sure he understood.}}
#: {{ux|it|Certo che ricordo quell'evento: '''ne''' ho perfino scritto in un articolo.|Of course I remember that event, I even wrote an article '''about that'''}}
# [[of]] this; of that; of these; of those, {{n-g|sometimes not translated in English}}
#: {{ux|it|Se è avanzata della torta, '''ne''' vorrei una fetta, per favore.|If there's some cake left, I would like a slice.|lit=If is left some cake, '''of it''' I would like a slice.}}
#: {{ux|it|Avevi promesso di tornare a casa, te '''ne''' ricordi?|You promised you'd come back home, do you remember ('''that''')?|lit=You had promised to come back to home, do you '''of it''' remember?}}
# of them {{qualifier|sometimes not translated in English}}
#: {{ux|it|Non '''ne''' ho più.|I don't have any left.|lit=I don't '''of it''' have any more.}}
# [[for]] this; of that; of these; of those, {{n-g|sometimes not translated in English}}
#: {{ux|it|Ho capito cos'ha fatto, ma non '''ne''' ho capito il motivo.|I understood what he did, but I didn't understand the reason '''for that'''.}}
# {{n-g|[[intensive]] particle, used in forms of certain verbs suffixed with {{m|it|-ne}}, where it indicates a particular way of carrying out the verb's action}}
#: {{ux|it|Spalancò la porta e {{m|it|andarsene|se '''ne''' andò}} tutta esultante.|She slammed the door open, and left all cheerful.}}
#: {{ux|it|{{m|it|starsene|Se '''ne''' sta}} sdraiato per ore a non fare nulla.|He just stays there lying down for hours, without doing anything.}}
# {{form of|it|only used in forms of the verb|volerne|t=to hold a grudge}}
#: {{ux|it|Non te '''ne''' vorrò.|I won't hold a grudge against you.}}
# {{form of|it|only used in forms of the verb|andarne|t=to be at stake}}
#: {{ux|it|'''Ne''' va della tua vita.|Your life is at stake.}}

=====Usage notes=====
* The pronoun {{m|it|ne}} stands for {{m|it|di}} + [pronoun], and can thus be a translation of “[preposition] + it/them” for any preposition that is translated as {{m|it|di}} in Italian.

=====See also=====
{{Italian personal pronouns}}

===Etymology 2===

====Pronunciation====
{{it-pr|°°ne*}}
* This word triggers {{w|syntactic gemination}} of the following consonant, and may or may not block syntactic gemination of its initial consonant (contrast the pronominal usage above).

====Contraction====
{{head|it|contraction}}

# {{apocopic form of|it|nel}}
#: {{ux|it|Massimo Troisi non ha vinto un oscar per la sua interpretazione '''ne''' ''Il postino''.| Massimo Troisi did not win an Oscar for his performance '''in''' ''Il Postino''.}}

=====Usage notes=====
* The contraction {{m|it|ne}} is used where {{m|it|nel}}, {{m|it|nella}}, etc., would ordinarily be used, but cannot be because the article is part of the title of a film, book, etc.

=====See also=====
* {{l|it|de}}
* {{l|it|né}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:it:Trec|sense=1}}
* {{R:it:Trec|sense=2}}

==Japanese==

===Romanization===
{{ja-romaji}}

# {{Latn-def|ja|syllable|ね|ネ|ne}}

==Kalasha==

===Determiner===
{{head|kls|determiners}}

# [[no]]

===Particle===
{{head|kls|particles}}

# [[no]]

==Kapampangan==

===Pronunciation===
* {{pam-IPA|ne}}
* {{hyph|pam|ne}}

===Etymology 1===
Contraction of {{m|pam|na}} + {{m|pam|ya}}.

====Pronoun====
{{head|pam|pronoun}}

# {{n-g|blend of 3rd person singular possessive/ergative pronoun + 3rd person singular absolutive pronoun}}
#: {{ux|pam|Ikit '''ne'''.|'''S/he''' saw '''him/her'''.}}

===Etymology 2===
Compare {{cog|tl|'no}}, {{w|Japanese language|Japanese}} {{ja-r|な}}, {{ja-r|ね}}.

====Particle====
{{head|pam|particle}}

# {{lb|pam|informal}} {{n-g|sentence-final particle indicating [[emotion]] or [[mild]] [[emphasis]]}}
#: {{ux|pam|Nokarin ya kaya '''ne'''?|'''Now''', I wonder where is s/he?}}
# {{lb|pam|tag question}} {{n-g|sentence-final [[question]] marker particle indicating [[emphasis]] and asking for [[confirmation]]}}: [[right]]?; [[eh]]?; [[isn't it]], [[innit]]?
#: {{ux|pam|Mako naku '''ne'''?|I'm leaving, '''ok'''?}}

====Adverb====
{{pam-adv}}

# [[already]]; [[now]] ({{n-g|expresses the [[event]] when following a [[verb]]}})
#: {{ux|pam|Yari '''ne'''.|Finished '''already'''.}}
# [[already]]; [[now]] ({{n-g|declares the [[event]] of [[action]] when following a [[verb]] in the [[past]] [[tense]]}})
#: {{ux|pam|Meko '''ne'''.|s/he left '''already'''.}}
# [[already]]; [[now]] ({{n-g|suggests [[immediate]] or [[quick]] [[action]] when following the [[infinitive]] form and [[future]] [[tense]] of the [[verb]]}})
#: {{ux|pam|Papunta '''ne''' kanu.|s/he said that s/he's coming '''already'''.}}

=====See also=====
{{col3|pam|na}}

==Karaim==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|kdr|trk-pro|*nē-}}.

===Pronoun===
{{head|kdr|pronoun}}

# [[what]]

===References===
* {{R:kdr:Baskakov}}

==Karelian==
{{krl-regional|ne|ne}}

===Etymology===
{{dercat|krl|urj-pro|inh=1}}
From {{inh|krl|urj-fin-pro|*nek}}. Cognates include {{cog|fi|ne}} and {{cog|et|need}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|krl|/ˈnʲe/}}
* {{hyph|krl|ne}}

===Determiner===
{{head|krl|determiner|cat2=demonstrative determiners}}

# {{lb|krl|South Karelian}} [[those]]
# {{lb|krl|North Karelian|or|dialectal}} [[these]], [[those]] {{gl|medial}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|krl|pronoun|cat2=personal pronouns|cat3=demonstrative pronouns}}

# {{lb|krl|South Karelian}} [[those]]
# {{lb|krl|North Karelian|or|dialectal}} [[these]], [[those]] {{gl|medial}}

====Usage notes====
* In North Karelian, ''ne'' is used to refer to objects that are far away from the speaker, but close to the addressee.

====Declension====
{{krl-decl-table|d=V|še|šen|šitä|šiih|šiinä|šiitä|šillä|šiltä|šiksi|šinä|-|šiittä|ne|niijen|niitä|niih|niissä|niistä|niillä|niiltä|niiksi|niinä|niineh|niittä}}
{{krl-decl-table|d=T|še|šen|šidä|šiih|šiinä|šiitä|šillä|šildä|šiksi|šinä|šiinke|šiittä|ne|niijen|niidä|niih|niissä|niistä|niillä|niildä|niiksi|niinä|niinke|niittä}}

====See also====
{{krl-demonstratives}}

===References===
* {{R:krl:Punzhina:1994|+}}
* {{R:krl:Rugoyeva:1999|+}}
* {{R:krl:KKS|ne}}

==Ladin==

===Adverb===
{{head|lld|adverbs}}

# [[not]]

==Latin==

===Pronunciation===
* {{la-IPA|nē}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{cog|itc-ola|ne||not}}, from {{inh|la|itc-pro|*nē}}, from the extension of {{inh|la|ine-pro|*ne||not}}. Cognates include {{cog|gem-pro|*ne}} (whence {{cog|got|𐌽𐌹}} and {{cog|ang|ne}}), {{cog|sa|न|tr=ná}}, {{cog|bg|-}}, {{cog|sh|-}} and {{cog|ru|не}}, {{cog|lt|ne}}, {{cog|ga|ní}}.

====Adverb====
{{la-adv|nē|-}}

# {{senseid|la|not}} [[no]], [[not]]
#* {{Q|la|Titus Livius|Ab Urbe Condita|1|10|quote='''ne''' Crustumini quidem atque Antemnates {{...}} [[satis]] [[se]] [[inpigre]] [[movent]]|t=the Crustuminians and Antemnates did '''not''' move with enough energy}}
# {{n-g|+ subjunctive, introduces a prohibition or negative command}}: [[do]] [[not]], [[don’t]]
#* {{Q|la|Nep.|Att.|16|2|5|quote='''nē''' necesse habueris|t='''do not''' regard it as necessary}}
#* {{Q|la|Cic.|Fam.|7|18|3|quote='''nē''' sīs admīrātus|t='''do not''' be surprised}}
#* {{Q|la|Cic.|Fam.|7|25|2|quote='''nē''' Apellae quidem dīxeris|t='''do not''' tell Apella even}}
#* {{Q|la|Cic.|Div.|2|127|quote=hōc facitō; hōc '''nē''' fēceris|t=thou shalt do this, '''thou shalt not''' do that}}
#* {{Q|la|Cic.|Tusc.|1|98|quote='''nē''' vōs quidem mortem timueritis|t='''nor must you''' fear death}}
# {{n-g|+ future imperative, introduces a prohibition or negative command in general directions serving for all time, as precepts, statutes, and proverbs}}: do not, don’t
#* {{Q|la|Plin.||18|334|quote=Boreā flante, '''nē''' arātō, sēmen '''nē''' iacitō|t=when the north wind blows, '''do not''' plough, '''do not''' sow seed}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|la|nē quidem|t=not even}}

====Conjunction====
{{head|la|conjunction|head=nē|+ subjunctive}}

# {{senseid|la|lest}} that not, in order not to and similar; [[lest]]
#: {{ux|la|Vereor, '''nē''' videātur ōrātiō mea stulta.|I fear '''lest''' my oration seem foolish.}} {{attn|la|slightly modified quote of Cicero's De re publica 1.70, we might want the actual quote}}
#* {{Q|la|Julius Caesar|Bello Gallico|7|11|quote='''nē''' quem post sē hostem reliqueret|t='''in order not to''' leave any enemy behind himself}}
#* {{Q|la|Julius Caesar|Bello Gallico|7|10|quote=sī reliquam partem hiemis ūnō locō legiōnēs continēret, '''nē''' stipendiāriīs Aeduōrum expugnātīs cūncta Gallia dēficeret|t=[he feared] '''lest''' if he should confine his legions in one place for the remaining part of the winter, all Gaul would revolt when the stipendiaries of the {{w|Aedui}} were subdued}}
#* {{Q|la|Julius Caesar|Bello Gallico|7|11|quote=veritus '''nē''' noctū ex oppidō prōfugerent|t=he feared '''lest''' [the enemy] should escape by night}}

=====Usage notes=====
* Not to be confused with the affirmative particle ''ne'' (see Etymology 2).
* The adverb, in cases of prohibition, became obsolete in colloquial speech in late antiquity, being displaced by {{m|la|non}}, originally a solecism.

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|la|neve|nēve}}/{{l|la|neu}}
* {{l|la|ne forte|nē forte}}
* {{l|la|ne quo|nē quō|to no place, [[nowhither]]}}
* {{l|la|ne quis|nē quis}}
* {{l|la|neutiquam}}

=====Related terms=====
{{col-top|2}}
* {{l|la|-ne}}
* {{l|la|ne-}}/{{l|la|in-}}
* {{l|la|neque}}/{{l|la|nec}}
* {{l|la|ni|nī}}
* {{l|la|non|nōn}}
* {{l|la|sin|sīn}}
* {{l|la|quin|quīn}}
{{bottom}}

===Etymology 2===
{{etymid|la|indeed}}
From {{der|la|ine-pro|*néh₁|alt=*né-h₁|t=that way, so}}, which consists of {{suffix|ine-pro|nocat=1|*áno-|*-h₁|t1=yonder|pos1=pronomial stem, distal|pos2=modal and instrumental suffix}}. Cognate with {{cog|grc|νή|t=yes, indeed}} and {{cog|gem-pro|*-nā|pos=emphatic suffix after adverbs}} which features in {{cog|is|svona|t=so}}, {{m|is|hérna|t=here}}, and {{m|is|þarna|t=there}}.<ref>{{R:ine:LIPP|vol=2|page=60, 62}}</ref> The same pronominal stem is also present in the words {{m|la|enim|t=for; truly}}, {{m|la|nempe|t=indeed}}, and {{m|la|nam|t=for}}.

====Interjection====
{{head|la|intj|head=nē}}

# [[truly|truly!]], [[indeed|indeed!]]; only joined with personal pronouns and commonly connected with other [[affirmative]] [[particle|particles]]
#* {{Q|la|Cicero|Philippics|year=44-43 BC|quote=At enim te in disciplinam meam tradideras—nam ita dixisti—domum meam ventitaras. '''Ne''' tu, si id fecisses, melius famae, melius pudicitiae tuae consuluisses.|t=You had however committed yourself to my instruction and frequented my house, or so you claimed. You would '''certainly''' have been more mindful of your virtue and reputation if you had!}}

===References===
<references/>

==Latvian==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|lv|ine-bsl-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|lv|ine-pro|*ne}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{rfap|lv}}

===Conjunction===
{{head|lv|conjunctions}}

# [[not]]
#: {{ux|lv|'''ne''' tikai|t='''not''' only|inline=1}}
#: {{ux|lv|'''ne''' visai|t='''not''' quite|inline=1}}

==Lithuanian==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|lt|ine-bsl-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|lt|ine-pro|*ne}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|lt|/nɛ/}}

===Interjection===
{{head|lt|interjection}}

# [[no]] (used to show disagreement or negation)

==Livonian==

===Pronunciation===
* {{liv-IPA|ne}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|liv|pronoun forms}}

# [[they]]; {{inflection of|liv|tämā||nom|p}}

==Luganda==

===Conjunction===
{{head|lg|conjunctions}}

# [[and]] {{qualifier|only used if the overall statement is grammatically positive}}

====See also====
* {{l|lg|na}}

====References====
{{R:Chesswas 1967|94}}

==Mandarin==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|cmn|Zh-ne.ogg}}

===Romanization===
{{cmn-pinyin}}

# {{cmn-pinyin of|吶}}
# {{cmn-pinyin of|呢}}

{{cmn-pinyin|notr=1}}

# {{nonstandard spelling of|cmn|nē}}
# {{nonstandard spelling of|cmn|né}}
# {{nonstandard spelling of|cmn|nè}}
# {{nonstandard spelling of|cmn|nê̄}}

====Usage notes====
* {{cmn-toneless-note}}

==Mezquital Otomi==

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|ote|oto-otm-pro}}, from {{inh|ote|oto-pro}}, from {{inh|ote|omq-otp-pro|*neʔ}}.

====Pronunciation====
* {{IPA|ote|/nè/}}

====Verb====
{{head|ote|verbs}}

# {{lb|ote|trans}} {{l|en|want}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|ote|oto-otm-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|ote|oto-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|ote|omq-otp-pro|*te/*ne}}, from {{inh|ote|omq-pro|*(Y)te(H)³}}.

====Alternative forms====
* {{alter|ote|né||obsolete}}

====Pronunciation====
* {{IPA|ote|/né/|/ně/}}

====Noun====
{{head|ote|nouns}}

# {{l|en|mouth}}
# {{l|en|snout}}
# {{l|en|edge}} {{gloss|of a blade}}
# {{l|en|bite}}, {{l|en|sting}}
# animals at the head of the herd

===References===
* {{R:Andrews 1950|pages=19, 47, 74}}
* {{R:Hernández Cruz & Victoria Torquemada 2010|page=210}}

==Middle Dutch==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|dum|odt|ne}}, from {{inh|dum|gem-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|dum|ine-pro|*ne}}.

===Adverb===
{{dum-adv}}

# [[not]]

====Usage notes====
Immediately precedes the verb. Often found in combination with the synonymous {{m|dum|niet}} or another negating adverb, which is placed elsewhere.

====Alternative forms====
* {{l|dum|en}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|nl|n-|pos=prefix}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:VMNW|ID27742|I}}
* {{R:VMNW|ID93272|II}}
* {{R:MNW|08784|en|V}}
* {{R:MNW|32004}}

==Middle English==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|enm|ny|ni||rare}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|enm|ang|ne}}, from {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|enm|ine-pro|*ne}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|enm|/nɛ/|/nə/}}

===Adverb===
{{enm-adv}}

# [[not]] ({{n-g|negates the accompanying verb}})
#: {{ux|enm|Þei '''ne''' bileveden hire nought.|t=They '''didn't''' believe her.|inline=1}}
#* '''13??''', Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Knight's Portrait" (line 70), ''The Canterbury Tales''.
#*: He nevere yet no vileynye '''ne''' sayde.
#* {{quote-text|enm|year=1481|author=w:William Caxton|title=[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/CharlesG/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Lyf of the Noble and Crysten Prynce, Charles the Grete]
|passage=I '''ne''' entende but onely to reduce thauncyent ryme in to prose.
|translation=I intend only to reduce the ancient rhyme into prose.}}
# [[not]] ({{n-g|to no degree, extent, or way}})
#: {{ux|enm|Þou '''ne''' art weyke.|t=You are'''n't''' weak.|inline=1}}

====Usage notes====
* Middle English lacks {{w|do-support}}. Instead, ''ne'' is simply used by itself: ''Puple deien, bot fame <u>ne</u> deieþ'' ("People die, but reputation <u>does not</u> die").
* Middle English has [[w:Double negative|negative concord]], so negatives don't cancel out another, unlike formal English or Latin. ''ne'' is often accompanied by other [[negatives]] rather than used alone. Double, triple, and quadruple negatives are common: ''I ne oght no man noght'' ("I haven't owed anything to anyone," literally "I not owed no one nothing").
* ''ne'' usually immediately precedes the verb; compare {{m|enm|nought}} / {{m|enm|nat}}, which usually follows it.

====Related terms====
* {{l|enm|never}}
* {{l|enm|non}}
* {{l|enm|nought}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|en|ne}} {{q|obsolete}}
* {{desc|sco|ne}} {{q|obsolete}}

====References====
* {{R:MED Online|entry=ne|part of speech=adv|id=MED29155}}

===Conjunction===
{{head|enm|conjunctions}}

# [[nor]] {{gloss|and not, or (not), not}}
# [[lest]] {{gloss|in case, before}}
# [[than]] ({{n-g|introducing a basis of comparison}})

====Usage notes====
* ''ne'' can contract with certain words that follow it, such as ''<u>ne</u> was'' → ''nas''. This is optional, so forms like ''ne was'' are possible.
* ''ne... ne...'' is often found in correlative constructions, with the meaning of ''not... or...''; this is comparable to modern English ''neither... (n)or...''.

====Descendants====
* {{desc|en|ne}} {{q|obsolete}}
* {{desc|sco|ne}} {{q|obsolete}}

====References====
* {{R:MED Online|entry=ne|part of speech=conj.(1)|id=MED29156}}
* {{R:MED Online|entry=ne|part of speech=conj.(2)|id=MED29157}}

==Middle French==

===Etymology 1===

====Alternative forms====
* {{l|frm|n'}}

====Adverb====
{{head|frm|adverbs}}

# [[not]] (used to negate a verb)
#* {{quote-book|frm|year=1488|author=Jean Dupré|title=Lancelot du Lac|passage=Ha ha pourdieu franc chevalier et preux '''ne''' me occisez mie|page=[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111060r/f22.item.zoom 22]|translation=Ha! For the love of God honest and valiant knight, don't kill me!}}<!--ne mie-->
#* {{quote-book|frm|year=1530|author=François Rabelais|title=[[:s:fr:Pantagruel/Édition Nourry, 1530|Pantagruel]]
|passage=et '''ne''' m'advint oncques de mentir ou asseurer chose que '''ne''' feust veritable<!--ne oncques and ne with no other adverb-->
|translation=It never happened to me to lie or to assure someone of something that wasn't truthful}}
#* {{quote-book|frm|year=1562|author=Henry IV of France|title=[[:s:fr:Page:Henri IV - Lettres Missives - Tome1.djvu/41|Lettres Missives]]
|passage=Catherine de Médicis, '''ne''' tarda pas à faire venir auprès de lui, en 1561, sa femme et ses enfants.<!--ne pas--><!--left verbatim with accents, if I find the original manuscript online, some of those accents can go-->
|translation=Catherine of Medicis did not hesitate to bring to him, in 1561, his wife and his children}}

=====Usage notes=====
* As in modern French, may be used in combination with another adverb, such as ''ne... iamais'', ''ne... pas'', ''ne... gaire'', ''ne... mie'', ''ne... oncques'', ''ne... poin(c)t'' and ''ne... rien(s)'', but such an adverb is not required.

===Etymology 2===
See {{m|frm|ny}}

====Conjunction====
{{head|frm|conjunctions}}

# {{alternative form of|frm|ny|gloss=neither; nor}}

==Mohawk==

===Article===
{{head|moh|articles}}

# [[the]]

==Negerhollands==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|dcr|/nɛ/}}

===Verb===
{{head|dcr|verbs}}

# [[take]]

===References===
* ''Language Contact in the Danish West Indies'' (2012, {{ISBN|900423070X}}

==Nheengatu==

===Etymology===
From {{der|yrl|tpw|ne}}. Cognate with {{cog|gn|nde}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|yrl|[ne]}}
{{rfap|yrl}}
* {{hyph|yrl|ne}}
* {{rhymes|yrl|e}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|yrl|pronouns}}

# {{lb|yrl|second-class}} second-person singular personal pronoun ([[you]], [[your]])
#: {{ux|yrl|'''Ne''' akanhemu reikú nhaãsé '''ne''' kirá reikú.|translation='''You''' are scared because '''you''' are fat.}}
#: {{ux|yrl|Aé uputari upitá '''ne''' irũmu.|translation=He wants to stay with '''you'''.}}
#: {{ux|yrl|'''Ne''' manha uwiké uka pisasú upé.|translation='''Your''' mother enters the new house.}}

====Usage notes====
* As a second-class pronoun, {{m|yrl||ne}} is used as the subject of a sentence when its verb is a second-class one (those verbs are sometimes referred to as adjectives). The personal pronoun {{m|yrl||ne}} is also used when governed by any postposition with the exception of {{l|yrl|arama}} and {{l|yrl|supé}}. Finally, {{m|yrl||ne}} is used as a possessive pronoun as well.

===See also===
{|class="wikitable"
|+Nheengatu personal pronouns
|-
!singular
!first-class pronoun
!second-class pronoun
|-
|first-person
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|ixé}}
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|se}}
|-
|second-person
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|indé}}
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|ne}}
|-
|third-person
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|aé}}
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|i}}
|-
!plural
!first-class pronoun
!second-class pronoun
|-
|first-person
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|yandé}}
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|yané}}
|-
|second-person
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|penhẽ}}
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|pe}}
|-
|third-person
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|aintá}} (or {{l|yrl|tá}})
|style="text-align:center"|{{l|yrl|aintá}} (or {{l|yrl|tá}})
|}

===References===
* AVILA, Marcel Twardowsky (2021) [https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8160/tde-10012022-201925 ''Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português''], page 564
* {{w|Eduardo de Almeida Navarro|NAVARRO, Eduardo de Almeida}} (2016) ''Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica'', 2nd edition, {{ISBN|9788591262021}}, pages 11 and 106

==Northern Kurdish==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|kmr|ira-pro|*ná|*na}}, from {{inh|kmr|iir-pro|*ná|*na}}, from {{inh|kmr|ine-pro|*ne}}. Related to {{m|kmr|na}}.

===Adverb===
{{head|kmr|adverbs}}

# [[not]]
#: {{ux|kmr|Ez '''ne''' kurd im.|I'm '''not''' Kurdish.}}

===Interjection===
{{head|kmr|interjection}}

# [[no]]

==Northern Ndebele==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|nd|bnt-pro|*-nàì}}.

===Adjective===
{{nd-adj|ne}}

# [[four]]

====Inflection====
{{nd-infl-adj|L}}

{{cln|nd|cardinal numbers}}

==Norwegian Nynorsk==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alt|nn|near|g=m-p}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|nn|non|nið|g=f}}, possibly from {{der|nn|gem-pro|*nidwō||sinking; downfall}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nn|/neː/}} {{nn-pronu-note}}

===Noun===
{{nn-noun|n|neet|ne|nea}}

# a [[lunar phase]] of an [[old moon]], i.e. period of time in which the [[moon]] is [[wane|waning]]
#: {{ant|nn|ny}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|nn|i ny og ne}}
* {{l|nn|nemåne}}

===References===
* {{R:ND}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|nn|a=en|en}}

==Old Czech==

===Etymology===
Inherited from {{inh|zlw-ocs|sla-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|zlw-ocs|sla-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|zlw-ocs|ine-bsl-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|zlw-ocs|ine-pro|*ne}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{zlw-ocs-IPA}}

===Particle===
{{head|zlw-ocs|particle}}

# {{ng|Negation particle}}; [[no]], [[not]]

====Descendants====
* {{desc|cs|ne}}

===References===
* {{R:zlw-ocs:Gebauer|+}}

==Old English==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*ne||not}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{ang-IPA|ne}}

===Adverb===
{{ang-adv}}

# [[not]]
#* {{quote-book|ang|text=''Iċ… hlūde ċirme, healde mīne wīsan, hlēoþre '''ne''' mīþe,…''|t=I… loudly cry out, hold my tone, '''don't''' hide a sound,…|title=Exeter Book Riddle 8|year=10th century|url=https://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/riddles.html#w0000089}}

====Usage notes====
* Old English does not have {{w|do-support}}. Instead, ''ne'' is simply used by itself: ''Menn sweltaþ, ac hlīsa <u>ne</u> swilt'' ("People die, but reputation <u>does not</u> die").
* ''Ne'' is placed immediately before the finite verb: ''Sēo lǣrestre ne meahte furðum mīnes naman ġemunan'' (“The teacher could not even remember my name”). It only goes before infinitives on the rare occasion when there is no finite verb to negate: ''Iċ wēne þæt þū sċyle forlǣtan and eft ne cuman'' ("I think you should leave and not come back"), ''Uton ne forspillan nāne tīd mā'' ("Let's not waste any more time").
* ''Ne'' negates verbs. Other parts of speech are negated with {{m|ang|na|nā}}: ''Earg iċ eom, nā lǣwa'' ("I'm a coward, not a traitor"), ''Iċ hīe fræġn "Hū wæs þīn færeld?" and hēo cwæþ "Nā yfel"'' ("I asked her 'How was your trip?' and she said "Not bad'"). ''Nā'' is also used when the verb is only implied: ''Ne rēċe iċ hwæðer mē hwā ġelīefe þē nā'' ("I don't care if anyone believes me or not"). ''Nā'' also negates tō-infinitives and participles: ''Þās þing ġedafenode tō dōnne and þā ōðru nā tō forlǣtenne'' ("It would have made sense to do these things and not to neglect the others").
* ''Ne'' and its accompanying verb often come at the beginning of a sentence: ''Ne meahte nān mann tecnāwan hwelcre mægðe hē wǣre'' ("Nobody could tell what tribe he was," literally "Couldn't nobody tell what tribe he was").
* Old English has [[w:Double negative|negative concord]], meaning one negative does not cancel out another. Double, triple, and quadruple negatives are very common: ''Ne sċolde iċ nǣfre nānum menn nāwiht'' ("I've never owed anything to anyone," literally "I never not owed no one nothing").
* In a few verbs beginning with a vowel, h, or w, ''ne'' actually fuses with the verb, creating {{m|ang|nesan||to not be}}, {{m|ang|nabban||to not have}}, {{m|ang|nyllan||to not want}}, {{m|ang|nytan||to not know}}, and {{m|ang|nagan|nāgan|to not own}}. In the West Saxon dialect (the dialect of most surviving texts and sometimes referred to as "standard" Old English), the contracted forms are the norm, while in other dialects the uncontracted forms ''ne wesan'', ''ne habban'', etc. are also common.

===Conjunction===
{{ang-con}}

# ''(in negative phrases)'' [[or]], [[and]] [[not]] (optionally translated as "nor")
#: {{ux|ang|Þurh þissa þinga ġehāt sind cumene tō anwealde unmenn. Ac hīe lēogaþ, ne ġelǣstaþ hīe þæt ġehāt, '''ne''' hīe nǣfre nyllaþ!|By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie, they do not fulfill that promise, '''and''' they never will!}}
#* '''c. 996''', [[w:Ælfric of Eynsham|Ælfric's]] ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=LXwNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA136 Lives of Saints]''
#*: {{quote|ang|Sē enġel him cwæþ tō, "Ne cyss þū mīne fēt, '''ne''' þū mē ne hrepe."|The angel said to him, "Don't kiss my feet, '''and''' don't touch me."}}
#* '''late 9th century''', [[w:Alfred the Great|King Alfred's]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=8sy8OOmW-ZAC&pg=PA63 translation] of ''{{w|The Consolation of Philosophy}}''
#*: {{quote|ang|Nān mann hine ne cann, '''ne''' hē nānne mann '''ne''' furðum þæt ġeþēode.|No one knows him, '''and''' he doesn't know anyone '''or''' even the language.}}
# ''ne... ne...'' is used to mean "[not...] or..." (optionally translated as "neither... nor...")
#: {{ux|ang|Iċ næbbe '''ne''' frīend '''ne''' fīend. Wrace iċ hæbbe.|I don't have friends or enemies. I have revenge.}}
#* '''c. 995''', Ælfric, [https://archive.org/stream/grammatik00aelfuoft#page/n27/mode/2up ''Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice'']
#*: {{quote|ang|Neutrum ''is nāþor cyn, '''ne''' werlīces '''ne''' wīflīces...''|Neuter is neither gender, '''neither''' masculine, '''nor''' feminine...}}

====Usage notes====
* In the phrase "[not...] or...", ''ne'' is often used consecutively for "or": ''Iċ nāt <u>ne ne</u> rēċe hwelċes cynnes fugol hit sīe, hit is mīn frēond'' ("I don't know <u>or</u> care what kind of bird it is, it's my friend").

====Descendants====
* {{desctree|enm|ne}}

==Old French==

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|fro|la|non|nōn}}.

====Alternative forms====
* {{alter|fro|nen||poetic, before vowels}}

====Adverb====
{{fro-adv}}

# [[not]]; used to form negative constructions

=====Descendants=====
* {{desc|fr|ne}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|fro|la|nec}}.

====Conjunction====
{{head|fro|conjunctions}}

# [[neither]] (not one or the other)
#* {{quote-book|fro|year=c. 1180|title=[[s:fr:Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette (Édition de Foulet et Uitti)|Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette]]|author=w:Chrétien de Troyes|passage=A lor seignor gaires n’antendent<br>'''Ne''' les serors ne li cinc frere|translation=They didn't listen to their father<br>Neither the sisters nor the five brothers}}

=====Descendants=====
* {{desc|fr|ni}}

==Old Frisian==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|ofs|ni}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|ofs|gem-pro|*ne||not}}. Cognates include {{cog|ang|ne}} and {{cog|osx|ne}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ofs|/ne/}}

===Adverb===
{{head|ofs|adverbs}}

# [[not]]

====Descendants====
* {{desc|frr|-}}
*: Heligoland: {{l|frr|ni}}

===Conjunction===
{{head|ofs|conjunctions}}

# [[nor]]

===Particle===
{{head|ofs|particles}}

# [[no]]

====Synonyms====
* {{l|ofs|na|nā}}

===References===
* {{R:ofs:Bremmer:2009}}

==Old Saxon==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|osx|ni}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|osx|gem-pro|*ne}}.

===Adverb===
{{head|osx|adverbs}}

# [[not]]

====Descendants====
* {{desc|gml|ne|en}}

==Old Tupi==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|tpw|/ˈnɛ/}}
* {{rhyme|tpw|ɛ|s=1}}
* {{hyph|tpw|ne}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|tpw|personal pronoun}}

# {{lb|tpw|rare}} {{alt form of|tpw|nde}}
#* {{RQ:tpw:Anchieta Grammatica|norm='''Ne''' rubamo xe rekóû|text='''Né'''rúbamo xerecóu|t=I am '''your''' father|lit=In the condition of '''your''' father I am|page=41v|chapter=X}}

==Pali==

===Alternative forms===
{{pi-alt}}

===Adjective===
{{head|pi|adjective forms}}

# {{inflection of|pi|na||acc|p|m|t=those}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|pi|pronoun forms}}

# {{inflection of|pi|na||acc|p|t=them, those}}

==Phuthi==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|bnt-phu|bnt-pro|*-nàì}}.

===Adjective===
{{bnt-phu-adj|ne}}

# [[four]]

====Inflection====
{{bnt-phu-infl-adj|L}}

{{cln|bnt-phu|cardinal numbers}}

==Rawang==
{{picdic/raw/Gesicht}}

===Noun===
{{head|raw|nouns}}

# [[eye]].

==Romanian==

===Alternative forms===
* {{l|ro|нє}} {{q|pre-1860s Cyrillic form}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|ro|VL.||nīs}}, from {{inh|ro|la|nos}}. Compare {{m|ro|nă|pos=old form}} and {{cog|rup|nã}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ro|/ne/}}
* {{audio|ro|LL-Q7913 (ron)-Andreea Teodoraa-ne.wav}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|ro|pronouns|cat2=personal pronouns|unstressed [[accusative]] and [[reflexive]] form of|noi}}

# {{lb|ro|direct object|first-person plural}} [[us]]
#: {{ux|ro|{{l|ro|el|El}} '''ne''' {{l|ro|urma|urmează}}.|He's following '''us'''.}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|ro|noi}} {{q|stressed accusative}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|ro|pronouns|cat2=personal pronouns|unstressed [[dative]] and [[reflexive]] form of|noi}}

# {{lb|ro|indirect object}} (to) [[us]]
#: {{ux|ro|{{l|ro|ele|Ele}} '''ne''' {{l|ro|dau}} {{l|ro|cadouri}}.|They give '''us''' presents.}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|ro|nouă}} {{q|stressed dative}}

====See also====
* {{l|ro|ne-}}
* {{l|ro|vă}}
* {{l|ro|mă}}
* {{l|ro|te}}
* {{l|ro|se}}

==Saterland Frisian==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|stq|/nə/}}
* {{hyph|stq|ne}}

===Article===
{{head|stq|articles}}

# {{form of|stq|Form of|n}}'' used before feminine adjectives''
#: {{ux|inline=1|stq|Dät is n Gous. '''Ne''' grieze Gous.|That's a goose. '''A''' grey goose.}}

==Scots==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|sco|enm|ne}}, from {{inherited|sco|ang|ne}}, from {{inherited|sco|gem-pro|*ne}}, from {{inherited|sco|ine-pro|*ne}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|sco|/neɪ/|/nɛ/|/nə/|/n(ː)/}}

===Adverb===
{{head|sco|adverbs}}

# {{lb|sco|archaic|rare}} [[not|Not]].
#: {{ux|sco|'''Ne''' look at the sky, when ye tread bumpy roads.}} (A Northern English folk saying)
#* {{quote-text|sco|year=1513|author=w:Gavin Douglas|title={{w|The Aeneid}} (translation)
|passage=To suffir exile he said that he '''ne''' couth.}}
#* {{quote-text|sco|year=1513|author=w:Gavin Douglas|title={{w|The Aeneid}} (translation)
|passage=I '''ne''' ask na land, nor realm.}}

===Conjunction===
{{head|sco|conjunctions}}

# {{lb|sco|archaic|rare}} [[nor|Nor]].
#: {{ux|sco|'''Ne''' mother, '''ne''' father, '''ne''' friends, '''ne''' foes ne-knew what had worthen of him.}}

====Usage notes====
* '''Ne''' is a negative particle and it is used preverbally, i.e. it is placed directly before a verb, for example,ː"''What haps might chance me I '''ne''' knew''" (William Fowler (makar), 1590) and "''To suffer exile he said that he '''ne''' couth''" (Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid, 1513). Now archaic and chiefly dialectal, it is still understood and used by a few rural speakers in Scotland and Northern England.
* As a conjunction, it is placed immediately before the word it negates as inː '''''ne''' mickle, '''ne''' little''; ''Twas '''ne''' man, '''ne''' woman.. '''ne''' beast''; '''''ne''' rich, '''ne''' poor, '''ne''' bold, '''ne''' meek, '''ne''' stong, '''ne''' weak can escape God's wrath''.
* In urban areas and cities became displaced by [[na]] or [[nae]].

====Further reading====
* {{R:DSL}}

==Serbo-Croatian==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|sh|sla-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|sh|ine-bsl-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|sh|ine-pro|*ne}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{sh-IPA|ne}}

===Particle===
{{sh-particle}}

# [[not]] (denoting negation)
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|ne znam|I don't know}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|on je ne samo darovit, već i jako marljiv|he is not only talented, but also very industrious}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|htio-ne htio|whether you want it or not}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|da ne spavaš? / ne spavaš li? / zar ne spavaš?|aren't you sleeping?}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|ne mogu, a da ne…|I cannot but…}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|reći ne|to say no; refuse, decline}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|ne manje nego/od…|no less than…}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|ne doći|to fail to come, not come}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|… Zar ne?|… Aren't you? (Isn't it?, Do you?, Don't you?)}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|neću|I won't}}

===Interjection===
{{sh-particle}}

# [[no]]
#: {{ux|inline=1|sh|Jesi li demokrat? Ne!|Are you a democrat? No!}}

====Synonyms====
* {{l|sh|jok}} {{qualifier|dialectal}}

====Antonyms====
* {{l|sh|da}}

==Skou==

===Pronoun===
{{head|skv|pronoun}}

# [[we]]
#: {{ux|skv|'''Ne''' fu.|translation='''We''' saw her.}}

===References===
* Donohue, Mark. ''A Grammar of the Skou Language of New Guinea'' (2004).

==Slovak==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|sk|ich}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{sk-IPA}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|sk|pronoun form}}

# {{inflection of|sk|ony||acc}}

====Usage notes====
Used after prepositions.

==Slovene==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|sl|sla-pro|*ne}}, from {{inh|sl|ine-pro|*ne}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{sl-IPA|nȅ|ne}}

===Particle===
{{sl-part|nȅ}}

# [[not]] (negates meaning of verb)
# [[no]] (expresses disapproval, disagreement)

====Antonyms====
* {{antsense|no}} {{l|sl|da|dà}}, {{l|sl|ja|já}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:sl:Fran}}

==Southern Ndebele==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|nr|bnt-pro|*-nàì}}.

===Adjective===
{{nr-adj|ne}}

# [[four]]

====Inflection====
{{rfinfl|nr|adjective}}

{{cln|nr|cardinal numbers}}

==Sumerian==

===Romanization===
{{sux-rom}}

# {{romanization of|sux|𒉈}}

==Swazi==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|ss|bnt-pro|*-nàì}}.

===Adjective===
{{ss-adj|ne}}

# [[four]]

====Inflection====
{{ss-infl-adj|L}}

{{cln|ss|cardinal numbers}}

==Tagalog==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alt|tl|ane}}
* {{alt|tl|hana}}
* {{alt|tl|hane||Rizal|Quezon}}
* {{alt|tl|hani}}

===Etymology===
Compare {{cog|ilo|ne}}, {{cog|pam|ne}}, and {{w|Japanese language|Japanese}} {{ja-r|ね}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{tl-pr}}

===Particle===
{{tl-head|particle|b=+}} {{tlb|tl|Bataan|Nueva Ecija|[[tag question]]}}

# {{n-g|Sentence-final [[question]] marker particle indicating [[emphasis]] and  asking for [[confirmation]]}}: [[right]]?; [[eh]]?; [[isn't it]], [[innit]]?
#: {{syn|tl|'no|'di ba|ano}}
#: {{ux|tl|Tapos magkikita tayo sa bahay ni Aling Neneng, '''ne'''?|Afterwards, we'll see each other at Ms. Neneng's house, '''am I right'''?}}
#: {{ux|tl|Maligo ka na, '''ne'''?|Take a bath, '''alright'''?}}

====See also====
{{col3|tl|ha}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:Pambansang Diksiyonaryo|hane}}
* {{R:Diccionario tagálog-hispano|298}}
* {{R:Vocabulario de la lengua tagala 1860|page=136|text=HANI. pc. Entiendes?}}
* {{R:Vocabulario de la lengua tagala}}
* {{R:Vocabulario de la lengua tagala 1613|292|Entiendes) Hani (pc) [aba naman] cundi mo aco caling̃ain hani? que ſera demi ſino tienes cuenta comigo entiendes? cun baga maymaalaala ca hani? ſi ſete acordare algo entiendes?}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|tl|a=en|en}}

==Ternate==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|tft|/neː/}}

===Determiner===
{{head|tft|determiners}}

# {{lb|tft|proximal}} [[this]], [[these]]
#: {{ux|inline=1|tft|namo '''ne'''|t='''this''' chicken}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|tft|pronouns}}

# {{lb|tft|demonstrative}} [[this]]
#: {{ux|inline=1|tft|ngori tomau '''ne'''|t=I want '''this'''}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|tft|'''ne''' foke|t='''this''' is a cockroach}}

===References===
* {{R:tft:Hayami-Allen:2001}}

==Turkish==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|tr|/nɛ/}}
* {{audio|tr|LL-Q256 (tur)-ToprakM-ne.wav}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|tr|ota|نه||tr=ne|what, whatever, how}}, from {{inh|tr|trk-oat|||tr=ne|what}}, from {{inh|tr|trk-pro|*nē-||what}}.<ref>{{R:tut-pro:SDM|*nē-|url=http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2falt%2fturcet&text_number=++90&root=config}}</ref>

Cognate with {{cog|otk|𐰤𐰀||tr=n²a|ts=ne|what, which}}, {{cog|xqa|نا|tr=ne}}, {{cog|oui|||tr=ne}}, {{cog|az|nə|}}, {{cog|slr|neñ|}}, {{cog|ba|ни}}, {{cog|cv|мӗн}} (metathesis < *ne-me), {{cog|kk|не}}, {{cog|kjh|ниме}}, {{cog|ky|не}}, {{cog|tt|ни}}, {{cog|tk|näme|nǟmä}}, {{cog|tyv|чүү}}, {{cog|ug|نېمە||tr=nëme}}, {{cog|uz|nima|}}.

====Pronoun====
{{tr-pronoun}}

# [[what]]
#: {{uxi|tr|'''Ne''' istiyorsun?|'''What''' do you want?}}
# [[whatever]]
#: {{uxi|tr|'''Ne''' istersen yaparım.|I will do '''whatever''' you want.}}

=====Declension=====
{{tr-infl-noun-c|e|pred=1|poss=1|stem=ney}}

=====Related terms=====
{{rel3|tr|niye|niçin|neden|nitelik|netekim|nesne|nasıl|nere|nece|nice|neyse|neli|nesiz|nesi|ne denli|ne gibi}}

====Adverb====
{{tr-adv}}

# [[what]], [[how]], [[such]]
#: {{uxi|tr|'''Ne''' güzel!|'''How''' beautiful!}}
#: {{uxi|tr|'''Ne''' güzel bir gün!|'''What''' a beautiful day!}}
# {{ng|Used as an intensifier to express surprise, astonishment, together with expressions like be!, ha!.}}
#: {{uxi|tr|Ne osurdun be!|You farted such (that probably the whole world heard it).}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|tr|ota|نه||tr=ne|neither; nor}}, from {{der|tr|fa|نه|tr=na}}. Cognate to {{cog|ang|ne||not}}.

====Conjunction====
{{head|tr|conjunctions|head=ne ... ne ...}}

# [[neither]]; [[nor]]
#: {{uxi|tr|'''Ne''' bu '''ne''' şu|'''Neither''' this '''nor''' that}}

=====Usage notes=====
* Not used alone but rather as ne...ne..., the way it is used is directly copied from Persian نه...نه...(“neither; nor”).

=====Antonyms=====
* {{l|tr|de|... de... de}}, {{l|tr|da|... da... da}}

===Etymology 3===

====Noun====
{{head|tr|nouns}}

# {{Latn-def|tr|name|N|n}}

====See also====
* {{list:Latin script letter names/tr}}

===References===
<references/>

==Tuvaluan==

===Particle===
{{head|tvl|particles}}

# {{n-g|[[past tense]] marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb}}

==Unami==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|unm|[nə]}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|unm|pronoun|head=në}}

# [[that]] {{q|inanimate}}

===See also===
{{unm-demonstrative pronouns}}

==Ura (Vanuatu)==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|uur|/ne/|[ne]}}

===Noun===
{{head|uur|nouns}}

# [[water]]
# [[river]]

===Further reading===
* Terry Crowley, ''Ura: A Disappearing Language of Southern Vanuatu'' (1999)

==Votic==

===Pronunciation===
{{vot-p}}

===Pronoun===
{{head|vot|pronouns}}

# {{alt form|vot|need}}

==Welsh==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|cy|/neː/}}

===Noun===
{{head|cy|mutated noun}}

# {{nasal mutation of|cy|de}}

===Mutation===
{{cy-mut|de}}

==West Makian==

===Etymology===
Likely cognate with {{cog|tft|ne||this}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|mqs|/n̪e/}}

===Determiner===
{{head|mqs|determiners}}

# {{lb|mqs|proximal}} [[this]], [[these]]
#: {{syn|mqs|mene|nema}}
#: {{ant|mqs|ma}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|mqs|pala '''ne''' ilamo|t='''this''' house is large}}
#: {{ux|inline=1|mqs|nudupe de ngeu '''ne'''|t=throw away '''these''' leftovers}}

===References===
* {{R:mqs:Voorhoeve:1982}}

==Xhosa==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|xh|bnt-pro|*-nàì}}.

===Adjective===
{{xh-adj|ne}}

# [[four]]

====Inflection====
{{xh-infl-adj|L}}

{{cln|xh|cardinal numbers}}

==Yup'ik==

===Noun===
{{head|esu|noun|absolutive|ena}}

# [[house]]

==Zou==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|zom|/ne˧/}}

===Noun===
{{head|zom|nouns}}

# [[lip]]

===Verb===
{{head|zom|verbs}}

# {{lb|zom|transitive}} to [[eat]]

====Derived terms====
{{col4|zom
|ene}}

===References===
* {{R:zom:Singh:2013|pages=40-41}}

{{C|zom|Face}}

==Zulu==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|zu|bnt-pro|*-nàì}}.

===Adjective===
{{zu-adj|ne}}

# [[four]]

====Inflection====
{{zu-infl-adj|L}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|zu|isine}}

===References===
* {{R:zu:ZED|-ne}}

{{cln|zu|cardinal numbers}}