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ni

1. (grammar) Initialism of noun inanimate.

• na
• nad
• nid

• -in, -in', IN, in, in-

ni

1. you (singular)

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

ni

1. now

• tani
• nani
• nime

• nu

ni f (uncountable)

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

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ni

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
   • 1989, Gorka Aulestia, Basque-English Dictionary, William A. Douglas, 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.

ni

1. Synonym of ani (“water”)

• David Kaufman, Tanêks-Tąyosą Kadakathi: Biloxi-English Dictionary (University of Kansas, 2011, →ISBN, page 34

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

ni

1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

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

ni m (plural nied)

1. nephew

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈni/
• Rhymes: -i

ni

1. neither, nor

ni f (plural nis)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /niː/, [niːˀ]

ni

1. nine

• IPA^(key): /ni/

ni

1. they

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

ni

1. this.

ni

1. this.

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

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• IPA^(key): /ni/

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.

From Middle French ny, from Old French ne, from Latin nec.

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ni

1. neither; nor

• 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”).

• soit

• “ni” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

ni

1. Romanization of 𐌽𐌹

nī

1. I (1st person singular pronoun)

Native development with a debated origin:[1]

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈni]

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• Hyphenation: ni

ni

1. (colloquial) lo!, look!

   Itt van ni! ― Look! Here it is!

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

ni

1. water

• Idi Organised Phonology Data

ni

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

ni

1. so

• nec

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

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

• Rhymes: -i

Blend of no +‎ si

ni

1. (informal) Neither yes nor no.

ni m or f (invariable)

1. nu (Greek letter)

• in

ni

1. Rōmaji transcription of に
2. Rōmaji transcription of ニ

• nina

ni

1. water

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

ni

1. water
2. any liquid
3. river

• Kansa dictionary
• Quapaw dictionary, in notes: "ni (ni) - water, river, liquid (Kanza)"

• IPA^(key): /ni/

ni

1. you (singular)

ni

1. water

• World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2002, →ISBN

• nei (in old orthography)

From Old Latin nei, from Proto-Indo-European *néy (“not”), from *ne. Cognates include Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐌹 (nei), Lithuanian nei, Old Church Slavonic ни (ni) and Old Irish ní. See also nē.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /niː/

nī

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

• quid nī? (why not?)
• nīmīrum (not wonderful)
• nisi

nī

1. not, that not, unless; like ne in imperative and intentional clauses

   Ni quid tibi hinc in spem referas.

   Vinum aliudve quid ni laudato.

   Numa constituit, ut pisces, qui squamosi non essent, ni pollucerent ... ni qui ad polluctum emerent.

From Latin nec.

• IPA^(key): /ni/

ni

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

Akin to Finnish nyt.

ni

1. now

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

• IPA^(key): /niː/

ni

1. never

• (never): nimools, keemol, keemools

• ini
• اين‎
• ني‎

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

• IPA^(key): /ni/
• Rhymes: -ni, -i

ni

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

ni

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

ni (Zhuyin ˙ㄋㄧ)

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

• 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.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ñiuʀ.

• MED phonemes: {niy}
• IPA^(key): /nʲɨj/, [nʲii̯]

ni

1. coconut

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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.

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.

ni

1. water

• 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/

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).

• IPA^(key): /ni/

ni

1. nine

• nittini

• niende

• “ni” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse níu

ni

1. nine

• nittini

• “ni” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

nek ... ni

1. neither ... nor

ni

1. water

• Paul Rivet, Nouvelle contribution à l’étude de l’ethnologie précolombienne de Colombie, Journal de la Société des Américanistes volume 35, pages 25-39 (1943), page 26

• ne

• IPA^(key): /ni/

ni

1. not

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

ni

1. Alternative spelling of ní

ni

1. water

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

• IPA^(key): /ɲi/

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ni

1. (archaic) Alternative form of ani.

• ni pies, ni wydra
• ni tak, ni siak
• ni to, ni sio

ni

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of nie.

• ni in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νῦ (nû).

ni f (plural nis)

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

ni

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

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)

• li
• vi

ni

1. some (plural indefinite article)

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

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 hteo/htio ni da čujem za pr(ij)edlog — I didn't even want to listen about the proposal

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)

• nni

• IPA^(key): [ni]
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): [nɪ]

ni

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

• nuàutri
• vi

• IPA^(key): /ni/
• Rhymes: -i

From Latin nec.

ni

1. (coordinating) neither... nor

   Ni Juan, ni Pedro ni Felipe te darán la razón.

   Neither John, nor Peter, nor Phillip will give you the reason.

2. nor, or

   No descansa de día ni de noche.

   He doesn't rest at day or at night.

ni

1. not even, even

   No descansaba ni por un minuto

   I didn't rest even for a minute.

• o ... o

• ni que
• nini

ni f (plural níes)

1. nu; the Greek letter Ν, ν

• ny

ni

1. is

ni

1. Marks a verb's object as 1st person singular.

   wananipenda

   They like me

Since 1661, through contraction of the Old Swedish verb suffix -(e)n ("yon") 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, ir derive from Old Norse ír, variant of ér, þér, from Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

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• IPA^(key): /niː/
• Rhymes: -iː

ni

1. you (plural nominative)
2. you (second-person singular nominative formal) (capitalized Ni, rare in modern use)

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. This was 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, though this is often seen as being overly formal and too contrived, especially by older speakers. Formality and politeness in Swedish is not conveyed through specific grammatical forms, is primarily done through indirectness, manners of speaking or various other behavior.

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• IPA^(key): /niː/

ni

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.

• IPA^(key): [ni]

ni

1. I

• IPA^(key): /ni/, [ni]

ni

1. tree

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

ni (Cyrillic ни)

1. accusative case marker. It is placed after the direct object of a transitive verb.

   Men O'zbek tilini o'rganyapman.

   I am studying Uzbek.

Borrowed from Russian ни (ni).

ni

1. not, not a, no

Not inflected.

ni ... ni

1. neither ... nor

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “ни”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ni˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [nɪj˧˧]

ni

1. (dialectal, Central Vietnam) this

ni

1. (dialectal, Central Vietnam) here

• IPA^(key): /niː/

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

ni

1. us; we

In South Wales, the pronoun ni can be used by itself colloquially where the affirmative first-person plural present tense of the verb ‘to be’ (ŷn) would be expected, e.g. Ni’n mynd i edrych o gwmpas yr amgueddfa. (“We’re going to look around the museum.”) instead of Ŷn ni’n mynd....

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

ni

1. not

ni

1. water

• 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/

-ni^?

1. what (kind of)

See the etymology of the main entry.

-ni

1. Combining stem of nina.

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “-ni”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-ni”