ie

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ie"

English

Abbreviation

ie

  1. Alternative form of i.e.

Anagrams

Acehnese

Etymology

Compare Indonesian air (“water”).

Noun

ie

  1. water
    ie bit — real water

References
  • Mark Durie, A Grammar of Acehnese: On the Basis of a Dialect of North Aceh (1985)

Aromanian

Interjection

ie

  1. yes

Antonyms

Dutch

Etymology 1

Likely from earlier Middle Dutch hi. Doublet of hij.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /i/
  • Audio(file)

Pronoun

ie

  1. (colloquial) Third-person singular, masculine, subjective, mute form: he.
    Hoe doet ie dat? ― How does he do that?

Etymology 2

Likely from unstressed je.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /i/
  • Audio(file)

Pronoun

ie

  1. (Holland, colloquial) Second-person singular, mute form: you.
    Heb ie de krant al gelezen? ― Have you already read the newspaper?
Usage notes

Generally, this form is not used in Flanders, and in the Netherlands it is largely restricted to spoken language.

Inflection
Dutch personal pronouns
subject object possessive reflexive genitive5
singular full unstr. full unstr. full unstr. pred.
1st person ik 'k1 mij me mijn m'n1 mijne me mijner
2nd person jij je jou je jouw je jouwe je jouwer
2nd person archaic or regiolectal gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe zich uwer
3rd person masculine hij ie1 hem 'm1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner
3rd person feminine zij ze haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 hare zich harer
3rd person neuter het 't1 het 't1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner
plural
1st person wij we ons – ons, onze2 – onze ons onzer
2nd person jullie je jullie je jullie je – je –
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe zich uwer
3rd person zij ze hen3, hun4 ze hun – hunne zich hunner
1) Not as common in written language.
2) Inflected as an adjective.
3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative).
4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).		 5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions.
6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural.


Etymology 3

Ultimately from Old Dutch io.

Adverb

ie

  1. (obsolete) always, every time, continuously
  2. (obsolete) ever, sometime, at some point
Usage notes

Was entirely replaced by words like altijd ("always, every time") and ooit ("ever, sometime, at some point") by the late 16th century.

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -e (correlative suffix of place).

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Adverb

ie (accusative ien)

  1. somewhere (indeterminate correlative of place)

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

ie

  1. Rōmaji transcription of いえ

Ladin

Verb

ie

  1. (Val Gardena) third-person singular present indicative of ester - is

Middle French

Alternative forms

Pronoun

ie

  1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Descendants
  • French: je

See also

Old Occitan

Pronoun

ie

  1. Alternative form of eu

Romanian

Alternative forms
  • iie (nonstandard)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈije/

Etymology 1
Woman wearing a ie

Inherited from Latin (vestis) līnea ("linen garment"). Doublet of linie (“line”), a later borrowing.

Noun

ie f (plural ii)

  1. traditional Romanian embroidered blouse
Declension
declension of ie
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) ie ia (niște) ii iile
genitive/dative (unei) ii iei (unor) ii iilor
vocative ie, io iilor
See also

Etymology 2

From Latin īlia, plural of īle.

Noun

ie f (plural ii) (rare, archaic)

  1. the lower part of the abdomen or belly, especially in animals such as livestock
  2. the skin that hangs down from the belly of an ox
  3. the pastern on a horse
  4. guts, bowels, or entrails
Declension
declension of ie
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) ie ia (niște) ii iile
genitive/dative (unei) ii iei (unor) ii iilor
vocative ie, io iilor
Synonyms
See also

Welsh

Adverb

ie

  1. yes, yea, aye
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