different between ser vs ner

English

Etymology 1

Noun

ser

1. Abbreviation of serial.

Etymology 2

From sir.

Noun

ser (plural sers)

1. (in some fantasy novels) An address or courtesy title to any person, especially if their gender and/or form of address are unknown.

   Would ser care to dine this evening?

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Anagrams

• -ers, ERS, ERs, ESR, RSE, Res., SRE, ers, res

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin sede?, sed?re (“to sit, to reside”) and sum (“to be”).

Verb

ser

1. to be

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin sede?, sed?re (“to sit, to reside”) sum (“to be”).

Verb

ser

1. to be

Conjugation

• Reference http://www.academiadelallingua.com/diccionariu/gramatica_llingua.pdf
• http://di098.edv.uniovi.es/apertium/comun/conxugador.php?verbo=ser - has some extra forms

Noun

ser m (plural seres)

1. being

Derived terms

• ser humanu

Baure

Noun

ser

1. tooth

   niser — my tooth

   eser — a tooth, someone's tooth

   nitorak to eser — I found a/someone's tooth

References

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, ?ISBN

Catalan

Alternative forms

• ésser

Etymology

From a reduction of ésser, from Latin sum, from Proto-Italic *ezom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ésti (“I am, I exist”).

Pronunciation

(verb)

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?se/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?se?/

(noun)

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ser/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?se?/

Verb

ser (first-person singular present sóc, past participle estat)

1. (intransitive) to be, to exist

2. (intransitive, +adverbial phrase) to be located (to be in a place)
3. (transitive, copulative) to be (used to connect a noun to another noun)
4. (transitive, copulative) to have a characteristic (used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes an inherent property)
5. (auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice, together with a past participle

Usage notes

This is one of two verbs that can be translated as to be, the other being estar. Ser/ésser indicates an inherent quality, whereas estar indicates temporary qualities that apply only at a particular time. Ser/ésser relates to estar as essence relates to state, etymologically as well as semantically.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• o sigui
• semblar ser

Noun

ser m (plural sers)

1. being (living creature)

Further reading

• “ser” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ser” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?r]

Verb

ser

1. second-person singular imperative of srát

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?r/, [se???]

Verb

ser

1. present of se

Galician

Etymology

Mostly from Old Galician and Old Portuguese seer, from Latin sede?, sed?re (“to sit, to reside”), and sum (“to be”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?/

Verb

ser (first-person singular present son, first-person singular preterite fun, past participle sido)

1. to be
2. first-person singular personal infinitive of ser
3. third-person singular personal infinitive of ser

Usage notes

Like Portuguese and Spanish, Galician has two different verbs that are usually translated to English as “to be”. The verb ser relates to essence, origin, or physical description. In contrast, the verb estar relates to current state or position.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ser quen (“to be able to; to dare”)

Noun

ser m (plural seres)

1. being (living creature)

See also

• estar

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???r]
• Hyphenation: ser
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

ser (countable and uncountable, plural serek)

1. (archaic, dialectal, humorous) Alternative form of sör (“beer”).

Usage notes

An archaic and dialectal variant of sör, but today it can also be humorous in informal conversations. In compound words and derivations, almost only sör is used.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• ser , redirecting to sör in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Shortening of messer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?r/

Noun

ser m (plural ser)

1. (historical) sir (title and form of address for a gentleman, shortened from messer)

   Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Ladino

Verb

ser (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ????)

1. to be

Lolopo

Etymology

From Proto-Loloish *swa² (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Burmese ???? (swa:), Japhug t???a, Tibetan ?? (so), Drung sa, Tedim Chin ha:², Jingpho wa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?²¹]

Noun

ser 

1. (Yao'an) tooth

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/

Etymology 1

From French sœur

Noun

ser

1. sister

   Synonym: didi

Etymology 2

From French cher

Adjective

ser

1. dear
2. expensive

Middle Dutch

Noun

ser

1. (title and pronoun) sir, lord
   • 1301-1350, Van den VII vroeden van binnen Rome. Een dichtwerk der XIVde eeuw (INL)

   • 1414, Hennen van Merchtenen's Cornicke van Brabant (INL)

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “ser (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

ser

1. Alternative form of sire
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, page 40

     And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe.

Etymology 2

From Old English s?ar.

Noun

ser

1. Alternative form of sere (“dry”)

Etymology 3

From Old Norse sér.

Adjective

ser

1. Alternative form of sere (“differing”)

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin sede?, sed?re (“to sit, to reside”) and sum (“to be”).

Verb

ser

1. to be (indicates a permanent quality)

Noun

ser m (plural seres)

1. being

See also

• star

Northern Kurdish

Noun

ser m

1. head

Preposition

ser

1. on

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Verb

ser

1. present of se

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ser

1. present of sjå

Pohnpeian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?r/

Verb

ser

1. (intransitive) to run aground

Interjection

ser

1. An exclamation used to attract the attention of two or more people.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *syr?, from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour, salty, bitter”), whence English sour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?r/

Noun

ser m inan (diminutive serek)

1. cheese

Declension

Derived terms

• sernik
• serny
• serowaty
• serowy
• ser bia?y
• ser krowi
• ser ple?niowy
• ser ?mietankowy
• ser topiony
• ser ?ó?ty
• ser wega?ski

Further reading

• ser in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese seer, with forms from multiple sources:

• Latin sum (“to be, to exist”), from Proto-Italic *ezom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ésti (“I am, I exist”).
• Latin sede? (“to sit”), from Proto-Italic *sed??, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

• Latin sede?: personal and impersonal infinitives (sed?re), gerund, present subjunctive, affirmative imperative
• Latin sum: present indicative, imperfect indicative, preterite indicative, pluperfect indicative, imperfect subjunctive, future subjunctive
  • Vulgar Latin *son?: sou
  • Vulgar Latin *sutis: sois
• later developments: past participle, future indicative, conditional, negative imperative

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?se?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?se(?)/, [?s?e(?)]
  • Homophones: sê, cê (with -r dropping)

Verb

ser (first-person singular present indicative sou, past participle sido)

2. (copulative) to be (to have the given quality), especially a quality that is intrinsic or not expected to change, contrasting with estar which denotes a temporary quality

4. (transitive) to be (to be an example or type of, or the same as)

6. (auxiliary with a verb in the past participle) to be (forms the passive voice)

8. (impersonal) to be (indicates a point in time)

10. (transitive with em or another locational preposition) to be in (to be located in)

12. (transitive with de) to be from (to have as one’s place of origin)

14. (transitive with de) to be (someone’s); to belong to

16. (transitive or auxiliary with para or de and a verb in the personal infinitive) to be for; to be to (to have as its purpose)

18. (impersonal, auxiliary with para and a verb in the personal infinitive) to be supposed to; should (introduces an expected or demanded action)

20. (transitive) to be; to cost (to be worth a given amount of money)

22. (intransitive) to happen; to take place; to occur

24. (transitive with por or a favor de or contra) to be against or in favour of

26. (poetic, intransitive) to exist; to be

28. (impersonal, transitive) used for emphasis

Usage notes

Portuguese and Spanish have two different verbs that are usually translated to English as “to be”: generally ser relates to essence, contrasting with estar, which relates to state.

Contrast the following:

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ser.

Synonyms

• (forms the passive voice): any reflexive pronoun
• (to be located in): ficar em, localizar-se em
• (to be from): vir de
• (to belong to): pertencer a
• (to have as its purpose): servir para
• (to be supposed to): dever
• (to cost): custar, valer
• (to happen): acontecer, haver, ocorrer, ter, produzir-se, realizar-se, sobrevir, suceder

See also

• estar
• ter
• haver

Noun

ser m (plural seres)

1. being (a living creature)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ser.

Synonyms

• criatura, ente

Derived terms

• ser humano
• ser vivo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin serum, French sérum. Cf. also zer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ser/

Noun

ser n (plural seruri)

1. serum

Declension

Romansch

Verb

ser

1. (Sursilvan) Alternative form of seser

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish seer, from two sources:

• Latin sede?, sed?re (“to sit, to reside”), from Proto-Italic *sed??, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. The infinitive, gerund, imperative, and present subjunctive come from this verb.
• Latin sum, from Proto-Italic *ezom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ésti. The forms that derived from here are the present tenses, the imperfect, and the preterite tenses.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?/, [?se?]

Verb

ser (first-person singular present soy, first-person singular preterite fui, past participle sido)

1. to be (essentially or identified as)
   • 2007, El Sueño de Morfeo, Nada es Suficiente

   • 2007, El Sueño de Morfeo, Para Toda la Vida

2. to be (in the passive voice sense)

3. to exist; to occur

Usage notes

Spanish has two different verbs that are usually translated to English as “to be”: ser relates to essence, contrasting with estar, which relates to state. Contrast the following:

However, when stating the location of an object, estar is used whether the location is permanent or not:

Conjugation

Derived terms

See also

• estar

Noun

ser m (plural seres)

1. a being, organism
2. nature, essence
3. value, worth

Related terms

• ser humano

Further reading

• “ser” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Verb

ser

1. present tense of se.

Anagrams

• ers, res

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Persian ??? (sar)

Noun

ser (definite accusative seri, plural serler)

1. (archaic) head

Synonyms

• (head): ba?, kafa

Etymology 2

Verb

ser

1. second-person singular imperative of sermek

Volapük

Numeral

ser

1. zero

Welsh

Etymology

From Old Welsh serr, Proto-Celtic *serr?. Cf. Middle Irish serr.

Noun

ser m (plural serrod or serroedd, not mutable)

1. billhook, sickle, scythe
2. (dictionary) sword

Synonyms

• (scythe): pladur

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “ser”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN

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