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Ve

Ve

Cornish

Proper noun

Ve

  1. Soft mutation of Me.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Ve m

  1. (Norse mythology) (brother of Odin)

ve

ve

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ve"

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 (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
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 .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veː/

Noun

ve n (genitive singular ves, plural ve)

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

Declension

n3 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ve veið ve veini
Accusative ve veið ve veini
Dative vei veinum veum veunum
Genitive ves vesins vea veanna

Synonyms

See also


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


Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

ve

  1. (to) you

See also


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


Neapolitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ve/
  • Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

ve

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

Coordinate terms

Number Person Nominative Accusative Dative Reflexive Possessive Prepositional
singular first-person io (i') me mìo, mìa, mieje, meje me, méne
second-person, familiar tu te tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje te, téne
second-person, formal vuje ve vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsso 'o, 'u (lo, lu) 'i, 'e (li, le) se sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje ìsso
third-person, feminine éssa 'a (la) 'e (le) éssa
plural first-person nuje ce nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste nuje
second-person, plural vuje ve vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsse 'i, 'e (li, le) llòro se llòro (invariable) llòro
third-person, feminine llòro 'e (le)

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

ve

  1. (Kajkavian) now

Synonyms


Slovene

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

  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 () affirmative imperative form of ver.
  4. Informal second-person singular () 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

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, , from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German , German weh, Dutch wee, Old English , 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


Turkish

Etymology

From Persian وَ (wa-).

Conjunction

ve

  1. and

Noun

ve

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

See also


Vietnamese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier con) ve ()

  1. cicada