ke
See also: Ke and Appendix:Variations of "ke"
Chuukese
Adjective
ke
- you are
Synonyms
Related terms
Present and past tense | Negative tense | Future | Negative future | Distant future | Negative determinate | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First person | ua | use | upwe | usap | upwap | ute |
Second person | ka, ke | kose, kese | kopwe, kepwe | kosap, kesap | kopwap, kepwap | kote, kete | |
Third person | a | ese | epwe | esap | epwap | ete | |
Plural | First person | aua (exclusive) sia (inclusive) | ause (exclusive) sise (inclusive) | aupwe (exclusive) sipwe (inclusive) | ausap (exclusive) sisap (inclusive) | aupwap (exclusive) sipwap (inclusive) | aute (exclusive) site (inclusive) |
Second person | oua | ouse | oupwe | ousap | oupwap | oute | |
Third person | ra, re | rese | repwe | resap | repwap | rete |
Guaraní
Haitian Creole
Usage notes
- This word is often omitted.
Hawaiian
Usage notes
- Modifies words which begin with the letters 'k', 'a', 'e', and 'o'.
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ke/, /kɛ/
Indonesian
Italian
Etymology
Shorter, written form of che
Malay
Etymology 1
Shortened form of kah.
Etymology 2
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ka.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Indonesian: ke
Mandarin
Romanization
ke
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Mapudungun
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Min Nan
For pronunciation and definitions of ke – see 街 (“street; market; fair”). (This character, ke, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 街.) |
Novial
Pali
Alternative forms
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese querer and Spanish querer and Kabuverdianu kré.
Romani
Swahili
Inflection
Coordinate terms
Turkish
Vietnamese
Yavapai
References
- Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages
Zulu
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɠe/?
Verb
-ke?
- (auxiliary) sometimes, occasionally [+subjunctive]
- Ake akhale.
- Sometimes he cries.
- Ake akhale.
- (auxiliary) ever [+past subjunctive]
- Wake wabona ibhubesi?
- Have you ever seen a lion?
- Wake wabona ibhubesi?
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɠé/
Conjunction
ke
References
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “-ke”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-ke”
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “ke”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “ke (3)”
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