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English

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Etymology

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From Afrikaans , probably short for newaar (isn't that true?), colloquial variant of nie waar.

Adverb

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  1. (South Africa, colloquial) As interrogative particle: "isn't that the case?"; also used with emphatic effect.
    • 1900, Harold Blore, An Imperial Light Horseman:
      Then you are not come as a recruit to our ranks, but have already ducked your head to a bullet, ?
    • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 21:
      No, we like this place, exotic for us whites, .

Anagrams

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Eastern Maninkakan

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Alternative scripts

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Pronoun

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  1. (emphatic) I, me, my
    Synonym: ń

Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin nivem.

Verb

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 f (plural nês) (ORB, broad)

  1. snow

References

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  • neige in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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  1. Nonstandard spelling of nê̄.

Usage notes

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Paicî

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Noun

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  1. night

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Adjective

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Zazaki

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Particle

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  1. no, nope

Antonyms

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