FromAfrikaansnè, probably short fornewaar(“isn't that true?”), colloquial variant ofniewaar.
nê
- (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,nê?
2012,Nadine Gordimer,No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published2013, page21:No, we like this place, exotic for us whites,nê.
Alternative scripts
[edit]nê
- (emphatic)I,me,my
- Synonym:ń
Inherited fromLatinnivem.
nê f (pluralnês)(ORB, broad)
- snow
- neige in DicoFranPro:Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – ondicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- nê in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu
Further information
[edit]nê
- nonstandard spelling ofnê̄
- 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.
nê
- night
nê m (pluralnês)
- The name of theLatin-script letterN/n.
- Synonym:ene
- (Latin-script letter names)letra;á,bê,cê,dê,é /ê,efe /fê,gê /guê,agá,i,jota /ji,cá /capa,ele /lê,eme /mê,ene /nê,ó /ô,pê,quê,erre /rê,esse,tê,u,vê,dáblio /dâblio /duplo vê,xis,ípsilon /i grego,zê
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nê
- no,nope
