Cornish

Proper noun

Ve

1. Soft mutation of Me.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Ve m

1. (Norse mythology) Vé (brother of Odin)

English

Pronoun

ve ‎(third-person singular, epicene, nominative case, accusative ver, possessive adjective vis, possessive noun vers, reflexive verself)

1. (neologism) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun.

See also

• other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Old Tosk *vae, from Old Albanian voe (compare Gheg vo), from Latin ōvum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm ‎(“egg”).

Noun

ve f

1. egg

Etymology 2

Vowel shortened from dialectal vē (identical to plural), from dialectal vejë, from Proto-Albanian *widewā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (compare English widow, Latin vidua).

Noun

ve f

1. widow

Catalan

Noun

ve f ‎(plural ves)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Derived terms

• ve baixa
• ve doble

Usage notes

In some dialects of Catalan, the sounds associated with the letter b and the letter v are the same: [β]. In order to differentiate the names be and ve in those dialects, the letters are often called be alta ‎(“high B”) and ve baixa ‎(“low V”).

Verb

ve

1. third-person singular present indicative form of venir

Czech

Pronunciation

Preposition

ve

1. in

Usage notes

• The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve/

Interjection

ve

1. alas

Faroese

Etymology

Ultimately, from Latin vē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veː/

Noun

ve n (genitive singular ves, plural ve)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Declension

Synonyms

• (archaic) vaff, vavv

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a/fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i/fyrra i, í/fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø ^{(Category: fo:Latin letter names)}

Galician

Verb

ve

1. inflection of ver:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve/, /vɛ/

Noun

ve ‎(plural ve-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze ^{(Category: io:Latin letter names)}

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

ve

1. (to) you

See also

• vi

Japanese

Romanization

ve

1. rōmaji reading of ゔぇ
2. rōmaji reading of ヴェ

Lojban

Cmavo

ve ‎(rafsi vel)

1. exchanges the x₁sumti with the x₄sumti of the following word
2. indicates that the object of a preposition fills sumti x₄of the preposition's corresponding brivla

Related terms

• se
• te
• xe

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve/
• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

ve

1. you (formal or plural, reflexive or dative or accusative)

Coordinate terms

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

ve

1. (Kajkavian) now

Synonyms

• sada

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋéː/
• Tonal orthography: vẹ̑

Pronoun

vé

1. you (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)
2. (formal) you (feminine and neuter singular)

Declension

See also

Spanish

Verb

ve

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ver.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ver.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ver.
4. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ir.
5. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of ir.

Usage notes

• The voseo imperative of ir is typically replaced with the imperative of andar, that is andá.^[1]

Noun

ve f ‎(plural ves)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Synonyms

• uve
• ve corta

References

1. ↑ “Spanish from Argentina: That Voseo Thing”, in (Please provide the title of the work), accessed 9 October 2015

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veː/
• Homophone: V (the letter)
• Rhymes: -eː

Interjection

ve

1. woe, pity you!

   ve dig!

   ack och ve!

Noun

ve n

1. woe, misery

   ditt väl och ve

   your weal and woe, your fortune and misery

Declension

Related terms

• veklaga
• veklagan
• vemod
• verop

References

• ve in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• ve in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
• ve in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian وَ ‎(wa-).

Conjunction

ve

1. and

Noun

ve

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze ^{(Category: tr:Latin letter names)}

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *sw(e)r

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [vʲɛ˧˥]
• Homophone: de

Noun

(classifier con) ve ‎(蟡)

1. cicada