не
Belarusian
Alternative forms
- ня (nja) – Taraškievica orthography (before a stressed syllable)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɛ/
Particle
не • (ne)
- used to show disagreement or negation, no
- Не, грешиш. ― Ne, grešiš. ― No, you are mistaken.
- Не, сега не може да гледаш телевизия. ― Ne, sega ne može da gledaš televizija. ― No, you may not watch television now.
- used to negate the meaning of the following word or phrase, not, n't
- Не знам. ― Ne znam. ― I don't know.
- Не мога. ― Ne moga. ― I can't.
- Мария не им даде възможност да се извинят. ― Marija ne im dade vǎzmožnost da se izvinjat. ― Maria didn't give them a chance to apologize.
- Не Мария им даде възможност да се извинят. ― Ne Marija im dade vǎzmožnost da se izvinjat. ― It was not Maria who gave them a chance to apologize. (Someone else did.)
- Не на тях Мария даде възможност да се извинят. ― Ne na tjah Marija dade vǎzmožnost da se izvinjat. ― It was not to them that Maria gave a chance to apologize. (She gave it to someone else.)
- Не възможност да се извинят им даде Мария. ― Ne vǎzmožnost da se izvinjat im dade Marija. ― It was not a chance to apologize that Maria gave them. (She gave them something else.)
- Не да се извинят им даде възможност Мария. ― Ne da se izvinjat im dade vǎzmožnost Marija. ― It was not a chance to apologize that Maria gave them. (She gave them a chance to do something else.)
Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Russian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Pronunciation
Particle
не • (ne)
Usage notes
не sometimes appears stressed, e.g. in the past negative of быть (bytʹ, “to be”), where the forms appear as не́ был (né byl), не была́ (ne bylá), не́ было (né bylo), не́ были (né byli) (i.e. не is stressed in the masculine singular, the neuter singular and the plural, but not the feminine singular).
Prefix
не • (ne)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne/
Particle
не (Latin spelling ne)
- not (denoting negation)
- Не знам. ― I don't know.
- Он је не само даровит, већ и јако марљив. ― He is not only talented, but also very industrious.
- хтео-не хтео ― whether you want it or not
- Да не спаваш? ― Aren't you sleeping?
- Не могу, а да не... ― I cannot but...
- рећи не ― to say no, refuse, decline
- не мање него... ― no less then...
- не доћи ― to fail to come, not come
- ... Зар не? ― ... Aren't you? (Do you?, Don't you?)
Synonyms
- јок (dialectal, from Turkish)
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