che

1. (international standards)ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-3language code forChechen.

Borrowed fromRussianче(če).

che (pluralches)

1. The letterЧ,ч.

• Cheka

A modification ofich,iche fromMiddle Englishich(“I”,pronoun).Doublet ofutchy.

che

1. (personal,obsolete)I.
   • c.1603–1606,William Shakespeare,King Lear, act 4, scene 6:

     Nay, come not near th' old man; keep out,che vor / ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be / the harder: ch'ill be plain with you.

• ECH,EHC

FromLatinquod. CompareRomaniancă.

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che

1. Alternative form ofcã

FromHindiछः(chaḥ).

• IPA^(key):/t͡ɕe/

che (Bengali scriptচে)

1. six

• korok
• siks /sik

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015.Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online:https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.

• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈt͡ʃe]

che

1. Superseded spelling ofxe.

• IPA^(key):[t͡ʃe]

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• Rhymes:-e
• Hyphenation: che

che

1. H-system spelling ofĉe

FromOld Galician-Portugueseche (13th century,Cantigas de Santa Maria); from an inflected form ofLatintū: the accusativete is fromLatintē, the dativeti fromtibi, the dativeche emerged bymetanalysis from the contraction ofte and the article.

• IPA^(key):/t͡ʃe/

che

1. dative ofti

The personal pronoun can also be used as a "dative of solidarity" or "interest" in colloquial register, meaning that either the interlocutor or the speaker is inserted into the action even when they don't have a direct intervention, so either to gain the interlocutor sympathy or to show personal interest:

1. • c.1295, R. Lorenzo, editor,La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense:I. E. O. P. F, page126:

     Disse entõ o conde a el rey dom Garçia: -Rey, nõ as por que teer nẽhũu destes que comigo som presos, que por mj̃ soo aueras quantos y som, et nõ lles faças nẽhũu mal, ca elles nõche am y culpa nẽhũa.

     Then the count said to king Don García: «King, you don't have to keep as prisoners none of the ones that are with me, because just by me you'll find out how many they are, and don't yo do them any harm, because they are not to blame[to you] on this»

   • 1596, anonymous author,Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     eche cousa de chorar

     It is[to you] a thing for crying

   Gustóucheme moito ese libro. ―I really liked that book[to you].

   Onte funche por Ourense. ―Yesterday I went[to you] to Ourense.

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “che”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “che”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “che”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “che”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “che”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

Inherited fromProto-Tupi-Guarani*t͡ʃe(“I, me”). Cognate withOld Tupixe.^[1]

• IPA^(key):/ʃe/,/ɕɛ/

che

1. I,me

che

1. my

   cheangirũ — "my friend"

FromEsperantoĉe, fromFrenchchez.

• IPA^(key):/t͡ʃe/,/t͡ʃɛ/

che

1. at,in,to(someone in his or her house, home or place),with(a people, in respect of their customs)

   Partioche me! ―Partyat myplace!

   Me lojasche mea patro. ―I livewith my dad.

   Irezche la mediko! ―Goto the doctor!

FromLatinquod.

che

1. that
   • 1877, Antonio Ive,Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page68:

     Nu’ iè truvato spada,che me talgia

     I have not found a swordthat would cut me

FromLatinquid^[1] (but also usurping some roles of Latinquod), fromProto-Indo-European*kʷid, compare*kʷís.

• IPA^(key):/ˈke/^*
• Rhymes:-e
• Hyphenation:ché

che

1. (interrogative)what;which

   Synonyms:cosa,che cosa

2. (archaic, relative)who;whom;which;nominative and accusative case

   Synonym:il quale

   • 1336–1374,Francesco Petrarca, “I — Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse il suono”, inIl Canzoniere, lines5–8; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin:publ. Giulio Einaudi,1964:

     […] delvario stile inch’io piango e ragiono[…] spero trovar pietà,nonché perdono.

     I hope to find not only forgiveness, but also pity for the variegated style inwhich I cry and reason.

• cui(relative; dative and prepositional case)

FromLatinquod, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*kʷod.

• IPA^(key):/ke/^*(unstressed)
• Rhymes:-e
• Hyphenation:che

che

1. that
2. than
3. when
4. let,may

   che la sfida abbia inizio! ―let the challenge begin!

   che Dio ti aiuti ―may God help you

che (invariable)

1. some(a remarkable); what(intensifier to begin a sentence)

   che festa! ―what a party!

che

1. Misspelling ofché.

che

1. Thekatakana syllableチェ(che) inHepburn-like romanization.

che

1. that

• coche

Akin toItalianche, from Latinquid.

che

1. what

che

1. Nonstandard spelling ofchē.
2. Nonstandard spelling ofché.
3. Nonstandard spelling ofchě.
4. Nonstandard spelling ofchè.

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

che

1. Alternative form ofsche

che m

1. this

che

1. that;which

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun,Sursilvan)that

• ca,c'(Sutsilvan)
• tgi(Surmiran)
• cha(Puter,Vallader)

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun,Sursilvan)who,whom

• tge(Sutsilvan)
• tgi(Surmiran)
• cha(Puter,Vallader)

FromLatinquid.

che

1. (Puter,Vallader)what

• tge(Rumantsch Grischun,Sutsilvan,Surmiran)
• tgei(Sursilvan)

FromLatinquod.

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun,Sursilvan)than

• ca(Sutsilvan)
• tgi(Surmiran)
• cu(Puter)
• co(Vallader)

From a contraction of Old Logudoresecoe(“as, like”), fromLatinquō(modo)et.

• IPA^(key):/ˈke/

che

1. (Nuorese)Only used inche a

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “a¹”, inDizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

• IPA^(key):[t͡ʃʰɛ̀(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation:che

che (stem-che-)

1. Fort Liard form oftse

• Keren Rice (1989)A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter,→ISBN, page11

• IPA^(key):/ˈt͡ʃe/[ˈt͡ʃe]
• Rhymes:-e
• Syllabification:che

che f (pluralches)

1. name of the digraphCh/ch; previously considered a letter

Onomatopoeic, or perhaps borrowed fromVenetanciò,Catalanxe, orMapudungunche(literally“person”).

che

1. (Rioplatense,Bolivia,Paraguay,Valencia)hey,yo

• → Brazilian Portuguese:tchê

che m orfby sense (pluralche)

1. (Argentina,colloquial)dude;bro;man;mate
2. (colloquial,Chile)Argentinian person
3. (Spain,soccer) a person connected withValencia Club de Fútbol, as a player, fan, coach, etc.

• “che”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed fromSpanishche, the Spanish name of the letterCH/ch.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key):/ˈt͡ʃe/[ˈt͡ʃɛ]
    • IPA^(key):(no yod coalescence)/ˈtse/[ˈt͡sɛ]
  • IPA^(key):/ˈse/[ˈsɛ]
• Rhymes:-e
• Syllabification:che

che (Baybayin spellingᜆ᜔ᜐᜒ)(historical)

1. the name of theLatin-script letterCH/ch, in theAbecedario

• tse
• se

che! (Baybayin spellingᜆ᜔ᜐᜒ)(women's speech,gayslang)

1. Alternative spelling oftse

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading ofChinese遮(“to hide”,SV:già)

• (Hà Nội)IPA^(key):[t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
• (Huế)IPA^(key):[t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
• (Saigon)IPA^(key):[cɛ˧˧]

che• (枝,𨑤,𩂏,𫑃)

1. tocover; totakeshelter
2. (literally) tohide