nee

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

• IPA^(key): /neɪ/

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• Audio (US), pronounced /neɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: nay, neigh, né, Neagh

nee (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of née

• As some speakers do not regard it as a fully naturalised word in English, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) is often italicised.

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

• IPA^(key): /niː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: knee

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.

   Nee way man! ― No way

   Thor's nee watter! ― There's no water!

• nee way

• -een, -ene, ENE, e'en, een

• IPA^(key): /ˈneː/, [ˈneː]
• Hyphenation: nee

née

1. Full form of né

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 237
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Middle Dutch neen, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Dutch *nēn.

• IPA^(key): /niəː/

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nee

1. no

• een

• neen

From Middle Dutch neen, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Dutch *nēn (“none, not one”), from *ne ēn, from Proto-Germanic *ne + *ainaz.

• IPA^(key): /neː/
  • (Belgium) IPA^(key): [neː]
  • (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [neɪ]

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• Hyphenation: nee
• Rhymes: -eː

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.

• Nee is used to show disagreement or negation.

  Nee, je vergist je. ― No, you are mistaken.

  Nee, je mag nu geen televisie kijken ― No, you are not allowed to watch television now.

• 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.

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Skepi Creole Dutch: ne

• een, één, ene

Ultimately cognate to German nein.

nee

1. (in some dialects) no

< neljä, specifically the initial syllable

• IPA^(key): /ˈneː/, [ˈne̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): nee

nee (colloquial)

1. (counting) four

• neljä (“four”)

• een

• ne

Of dialectal origin, particularly Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Cognate to Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), English no.

• IPA^(key): /neː/

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nee

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

• 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.

• “nee” in Duden online
• “nee” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): /neː/

nee

1. no

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Ultimately cognate to German nein, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and neen, English no and none.

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

nee

1. (in some dialects) no

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.

• ni, nie, nige, nig

nee (comparative ne'er, superlative neest)

1. new

• Neeheit

• IPA^(key): /neː/

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nee

1. Alternative form of neen

From Old Irish do·gní.

• IPA^(key): /nʲiː/

nee

1. future independent analytic form of jean

   Nee eh jannoo eh. ― He will do it. (literally, “He will do do it.”)

   Quoi nee eh agh mish? ― Who will do it but me?

From Old Irish ní.

• IPA^(key): /nʲeː/

nee

1. negative and interogative form of she

   Nee uss y fer lhee? ― Are you the doctor?

   Cha nee eshyn ren eh. ― It's not him that did it.

• re (dependent form used with dy, nagh)

Cognate with Balantak ngoor.

nee

1. nose

nee

1. with you, by means of you

nee

1. no

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈneː/, [ˈneː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: nee

nee

1. Alternative form of need

• IPA^(key): /neː/

nee

1. no

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