ни • (ni ) (personal ,possessive )
short form of the first-person plural pronoun in the accusative case, used as the direct object of a verb ;us Не мисля, чени видяха да идваме. Ne mislja, čeni vidjaha da idvame. I don't think they sawus come. short form of the first-person plural pronoun in the dative case, used as the indirect object of a verb ; tous , forus ,us Бихте лини казали в колко часа каца самолетът? Bihte lini kazali v kolko časa kaca samoletǎt? Could you tellus at what time the plane lands? short form of the first-person plural possessive pronoun ;our Първатани спирка е Париж. Pǎrvatani spirka e Pariž. Our first stop is Paris.Bulgarian possessive pronouns possessor singular plural first person (my, our) мой ( moj ) наш ( naš ) second person informal твой ( tvoj ) ваш ( vaš ) formal Ваш ( Vaš ) third person masculine не́гов ( négov ) те́хен ( téhen ) feminine не́ин ( néin ) neuter не́гов ( négov ) reflexive свой ( svoj )
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FromProto-Slavic *ni
ни • (ni )
used for emphasis to mean 'no thing or person'; not a,not oneSynonym: ни́то ( níto ) Не обелини дума. Ne obelini duma. He didn't saya single word. Ни един от хората, които бях поканил, не дойде.Ni edin ot horata, koito bjah pokanil, ne dojde.Not one of the people I'd invited showed up.ни • (ni )
used to show that a negative statement is true of two things; neither ,nor Synonym: ни́то ( níto ) Това ени в клин,ни в ръкав. Tova eni v klin,ni v rǎkav. That isneither herenor there. Тяни знае,ни се интересува какво се е случило. Tjani znae,ni se interesuva kakvo se e slučilo. Sheneither knowsnor cares what happened. Cognate to StandardMandarin 你 nǐ
ни • (ni ) (II )
you FromProto-Mordvinic *ńij Proto-Uralic *niŋä ( “ woman, female ” ) . Cognates includeNorthern Sami njiŋŋalâs Lule Sami niŋŋēlis Hungarian nő Tundra Nenets не ( nye ) .
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ни • (ni )
wife одни ―od ni ―a youngwife 1865 Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann ,Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch , page68 :Ki javovi esninze martonzo avoľ lia marto pežeteń kis i uŕvaksty ombotse langso, te pežet teji martonzo. Anyone who divorces hiswife , except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery. Indefinite declension of ни (front-vowel stem (ки case singular plural nominative(...) ни ( ni ) нить ( niť ) genitive(of ...) нинь ( niń ) — dative(to ...) нинень ( nineń ) — ablative(than ...) ниде ( nide ) — inessive(in ...) нисэ ( nisë ) — elative(out of ...) нистэ ( nistë ) — illative(into ...) нис ( nis ) — prolative(through ...) нива ( niva ) — translative(becoming ...) никс ( niks ) — comparative(like ...) нишка ( niška ) — abessive(without ...) нивтеме ( nivteme ) —
From earlier*nīˑ ~ *nʲīˑm (“diving”, infinitive verb), comparable toYug ньиметь ( nʲímetʲ ,“ diving, the act of diving ” ) .[ 1] [ 2]
ни (nī ) (action nominal )
diving , the act ofdiving Featured without etymology by CHYD.[ 3] (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
IPA (key ) : /¹ni/ ,[niˑ˧] [Action nominal] IPA (key ) : /n…i/ ,[n…i] [Finite verb] ни (nī, n⁵-a⁴-[²]-i⁰ ) (action nominal, conjugation class I )
shoveling , the act ofshoveling [Action nominal] ( transitive , atelic ) subject rakes ,shovels [Conjugation class I] ^ Werner, Heinrich K. (2012 ), Vajda, Edward J., editor,Dictionary of the Yugh language (Languages of the World/Dictionaries;47 ), Muenchen: Lincom GmbH,→ISBN 196 ^ Vajda, Edward ;Werner, Heinrich (2022 ),Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries;79, 80 ), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH,→ISBN 499-500 ^ Vajda, Edward ;Werner, Heinrich (2022 ),Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries;79, 80 ), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH,→ISBN 500 Werner, Heinrich (2002 ),Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen , volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag,→ISBN 26, 28 Kotorova, Elizaveta ; Nefedov, Andrey (2015 ),Большой словарь кетского языка →ISBN 269, 581, 582 Akin toArchi ди ( di ) .
ни • (ni )
asmell Inherited fromProto-Slavic *ni
ни • (ni )
neither Synonym: ниту ( nitu ) Нема ни жена ни деца. Nema ni žena ni deca. He has neither a wife nor children. ни • (ni )
not evenНи мајката не те сака. Ni majkata ne te saka. Not even your mother loves you. Не сакаше ни да се обиде. Ne sakaše ni da se obide. He didn't even want to try. neither ,either Ни јас не сакам да дојдам. Ni jas ne sakam da dojdam. I don't want to come either. FromProto-Slavic *ny
ни • (ni )
Short indirect object form of ние ( nie ) .ни • (ni ) n
nu (Greek letter)ни (ņi )
I Old Church Slavonic [ edit ] FromProto-Slavic *ni ( “ nor, not ” ) , fromProto-Balto-Slavic *nei Proto-Indo-European *nei
ни • (ni )
not FromProto-Slavic *ni Old Church Slavonic ни ( ni ) .
ни (ni )
nor ,neither 1076 Sviatoslav's izbornik [1] ни правьдникъ [съставить сѧ] бес почитаниꙗ книжьнаагоni pravĭdnikŭ [sŭstavitĭ sę] bes počitanija knižĭnaagonor [can] a righteous person [be built] without a reading of the booksOld Ruthenian:ни ( ni ) Belarusian:ні ( ni ) Carpathian Rusyn:ни ( ny ) Ukrainian:ні ( ni ) Russian:ни ( ni ) Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902 ), “ни Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments [2] (Л – П) , Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences,column443 Inherited fromOld East Slavic ни ( ni ) , fromProto-Slavic *ni
ни • (ni )
neither ,nor ни он ,ни она́ ni on,ni onáneither he nor she ни ку́шает ,ни спит ni kúšajet,ni spitneither eats nor sleeps 1859 Иван Гончаров Ivan Goncharov Часть 1. Глава 1 Обломов Marian Schwartz , transl.,Oblomov Seven Stories Press ,2008 :Лежа́нье у Ильи́ Ильича́ не́ былони необходи́мостью, как у больно́го и́ли как у челове́ка, кото́рый хо́чет спать,ни случа́йностью, как у того́, кто уста́л,ни наслажде́нием, как у лентя́я: э́то бы́ло его́ норма́льным состоя́нием. Ležánʹje u Ilʹí Ilʹičá né byloni neobxodímostʹju, kak u bolʹnóvo íli kak u čelovéka, kotóryj xóčet spatʹ,ni slučájnostʹju, kak u tovó, kto ustál,ni naslaždénijem, kak u lentjája: éto býlo jevó normálʹnym sostojánijem. For Ilya Ilich, recumbence wasneither a necessity, as it would be for an ill or sleepy man,nor an occasional occurrence, as for someone who was weary,nor a pleasure, as for a lazy man; it was his normal state. ни • (ni )
not a ни оди́н из ста ni odín iz stanot one in a hundred (between a personal pronoun and the verb in the affirmative) whatever ,however что он ни ска́жет što onni skážet ―whatever he says как бы он ни был бога́т kak by onni byl bogát ―however rich he may be (beforeкакой ,кто ,что ) any ,no ни в како́й кни́ге ni v kakój kníge(not) in any book, in no book ни на что не годи́тся ni na što ne godítsjait’s good for nothing Borrowed fromGreek νι ( ni ) .
ни • (ni ) n inan indeclinable
nu ( the modern Greek letterΝ /ν ) Synonym: ( ancient or modern Greek ) ню ( nju ) Inherited fromProto-Slavic *ni ( “ nor, not ” ) , fromProto-Balto-Slavic *nej Proto-Indo-European *ney ни- не
ни (Latin spelling ni
( emphasizes negation ) even ,either ни ја то не знам ―even I don't know that; I don't know that either нисам хт(ј)ео ни да чујем за пр(иј)едлог ―I didn't even want to listen about the proposal ни (Latin spelling ni
neither ,nor она није ни паметна ни(ти) марљива ―she is neither smart nor industrious ни трага ни гласа о .. ―not a trace about .. ни крив ни дужан ―completely innocent
FromProto-Samoyedic *niə
ни • (nyi )
belt FromProto-Samoyedic *ńëj Proto-Uralic *ńële
ни • (nyi )
( in compounds ) arrow Pyrerka, A. P. ;Tereščenko, N. M. (1948 ),Русско-ненецкий словарь Russian–Nenets Dictionary Огиз ,page213 N. M. Tereschenko (2005 ), “ни ”, inСловарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий Просвещение ,→ISBN 
