different between nee vs ner

English

Etymology 1

From French née, feminine of né, past participle of naître, to be born.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?/
• Homophones: nay, neigh, né, Neagh

Adjective

nee (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of née

Usage notes

• As it is not a naturalised word in English, nee is often italicised.

Etymology 2

From Old English ne or na (“no”). Cognate with Standard English no.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni?/
• Homophone: knee

Interjection

nee

1. (Tyneside) no, used to express no as a quantity, i.e. not any, like German kein/Dutch geen/French rien. Compare with na.

Anagrams

• -een, -ene, ENE, e'en, een

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?/

Pronoun

nee

1. we, us

See also

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nee, from Middle Dutch neen, nee, from Old Dutch *n?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni??/

Particle

nee

1. no

Anagrams

• een

Dutch

Alternative forms

• neen

Etymology

From Middle Dutch neen, nee, from Old Dutch *n?n (“none, not one”), from *ne ?n, from Proto-Germanic *ne + *ainaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?/, [ne?]
• Hyphenation: nee
• Rhymes: -e?

Adverb

nee

1. no
   • 1992, A. F. Th. van der Heijden, Weerborstels, Em. Querido's Uitgeverij, page 23:

     Nee, de stemming zat er goed in.

     No, the atmosphere was great.

Usage notes

• Nee is used to show disagreement or negation.

• Nee has an alternative form, neen. In Belgium, it functions as a stressed variant of nee. In the Netherlands, it is an archaic, formal form in spoken language, but was quite common in written language until recently.

Descendants

• Afrikaans: nee

Anagrams

• een, één, ene

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

Ultimately cognate to German nein.

Adverb

nee

1. (in some dialects) no

Finnish

Numeral

nee

1. (colloquial) four

See also

• neljä (“four”)

Anagrams

• een

German

Alternative forms

• ne

Etymology

Of dialectal origin, particularly Low German nee. Cognate to Dutch nee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?/

Interjection

nee

1. (colloquial, regional) Alternative form of nein (“no”)

Usage notes

• Nee is the most common colloquial word for “no” in northern and central Germany. It has also come to be used quite regularly in southern Germany, but is not used in Austria or Switzerland.

Further reading

• “nee” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?/

Adverb

nee

1. no

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Low German

Etymology 1

Ultimately cognate to German nein, Dutch nee and neen, English no and none.

Alternative forms

• nei, nää, nä (Low Prussian)
• ne, neh, nej (various dialects)

Adverb

nee

1. (in some dialects) no

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German nîe, nige, neye, nîwe, from Old Saxon niuwi, from Proto-Germanic *niwjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *néwos (“new”). Compare Dutch nieuw, West Frisian nij, English new, German neu.

Alternative forms

• ni, nie, nige, nig

Adjective

nee (comparative ne'er, superlative neest)

1. new

Declension

Derived terms

• Neeheit

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?/

Adverb

nee

1. Alternative form of neen

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish do·gní.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /n?i?/

Verb

nee

1. future independent analytic form of jean

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ní.

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /n?e?/

Particle

nee

1. negative and interogative form of she

See also

• re (dependent form used with dy, nagh)

Navajo

Postposition

nee

1. with you, by means of you

Inflection

Pennsylvania German

Interjection

nee

1. no

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?/

Interjection

nee

1. no

Further reading

• “nee”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

Formed by onomatopoeia. The extended form is neener.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/

Interjection

ner

1. (slang, childish) An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.

   You're wrong, so ner!

   I don't care what you think, so ner!

   I've got more sweets than you. Ner ner ner ner ner!

Derived terms

ner ner ner ner ner

Emphatic form of ner — pronounced /n?? n?? n? n?? n??/ and sung or spoken with the rhythm: crotchet, dotted quaver, semiquaver, crotchet, crotchet. Spelling is not canonical; alternatives are "ner ner na ner ner" or "ner ner ne ner ner".

Translations

Anagrams

• -ern, -ren, Ern, NRE, REN, RNE, ern, ren

German

Alternative forms

• 'ner

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?/

Article

ner

1. (colloquial) Contraction of einer (“a, an”).

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

ner

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by ned

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adverb

ner

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of ned

Old Irish

Etymology

After Witczak, from Proto-Celtic *e?ros (“boar”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h?)epros (“boar”), with the n- arising from rebracketing of the demonstrative-final n in accusative *ton e?ron, i.e. overgeneralisation of the nasal mutation. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *eburaz, Latin aper, and (with a prefix) Proto-Slavic *vepr?. Witczak rejects Pokorny's derivation from Proto-Celtic *nero- (“hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?n?r (“man, male”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??er/

Noun

ner m (genitive neir, nominative plural neir)

1. (poetic) boar

Inflection

Synonyms

• cullach
• fithend
• torc

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “ner”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?r/

Noun

ner f

1. genitive plural of nera

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) nair
• (Surmiran) neir

Etymology

From Latin nigrum, accusative of niger.

Adjective

ner m (feminine singular nera, masculine plural ners, feminine plural neras)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) black

Antonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter) alv
• (Vallader) alb

Swedish

Alternative forms

• ned (more formal)
• neder (archaic except in some compounds)

Etymology

A contraction of earlier neder, from Old Norse niðr, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Indo-European *niter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?r/

Adverb

ner (not comparable)

1. (somewhat informal) down; in a direction downwards
2. (somewhat informal) down; off (with various verbs to denote something which is turned off or shut down)

Usage notes

The forms ned and ner are often, but not always, interchangeable. The form ned is more formal and is especially found in compounds of more formal nature, whereas ner is more common as a word on its own. For instance the formal word nedlägga (“to discontinue, shut down”) vs. its informal equivalent lägga ner. Some compounds can use either form, e.g. nedladdning (“download”) (more formal) or nerladdning (less formal). Some compounds only use ned, e.g. nedlåtande (“condescending”).

In a few compounds, the otherwise archaic form neder is used, e.g. nederbörd (“precipitation”) or nedervåning (“ground floor”).

References

• ner in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ner in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• ren

Turkmen

Alternative forms

• ??? (ner) (Arabic)

Etymology

From Persian ??? (nar).

Adjective

ner

1. male

   Synonym: erkek

Noun

ner (definite accusative neri, plural nerler)

1. male camel

Declension

Alternative forms

• iner

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse nær, comparative of ná-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [né??]
  • Rhymes: -é?r

Adjective

ner (comparative nermene or nemmene, superlative nemmäst or nemest or nemst)

1. Close; near.

Derived terms

• nerhänneli
• nerhännäs
• nerkuno
• nerskylt
• närliggjen
• när
• näst
• skôtner