English

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!

Translations

Derived terms

ner ner ner ner ner

Emphatic form of ner — pronounced /nɜː nɜː nə nɜː nɜː/ 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".

Anagrams

• ern
• ren

German

Alternative forms

• 'ner

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɐ/

Article

ner

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

Lojban

Rafsi

ner

1. rafsi of nenri.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

ner

1. (until 2005, Bokmål) Alternative spelling of ned

Old Irish

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Celtic *nero- ‎(“hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr. Cognate with Middle Welsh ner ‎(“chief, hero”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n͈ʲer/

Noun

ner m ‎(genitive neir, nominative plural neir)

1. (poetic) boar

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• cullach
• fithend
• torc

Mutation

References

• “ner” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neːr/

Alternative forms

• ned
• neder

Adverb

ner (not comparable)

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