वे

See also: ब, ॿ, व, वृ, and -व

Hindi

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi वे (ve), वै (vai), from Sauraseni Apabhramsa ओइ (oi), perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit *अव (ava), attested in अवोष् (avoṣ), अवोर् (avor, “of you both”, gen. du.), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *avá. Compare Avestan 𐬀𐬬𐬀 (ava).[1][2]

Pronunciation

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ʋeː/
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- Homophones: वह (vah), वो (vo)

Pronoun

वे • (ve) m pl or f pl by sense (Urdu spelling وے) (demonstrative)

direct plural of वह (vah); they, those, he (honorific), she (honorific)
वे अच्छे लोग हैं। ― ve acche log ha͠i. ― They are good people.

उन मकानों में छह कमरे हैं।
un makānõ mẽ chah kamre ha͠i.
In those houses there are six rooms.

See also

इन (in) (near reference)

References

Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 285
Oberlies, Thomas (2005) A Historical Grammar of Hindi, Grazer Vergleichende Arbeiten, →ISBN, page 23

Further reading

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वे”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Platts, John T. (1884) “वे”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Sanskrit

Noun

वे • (ve)

vocative singular of वि (vi) ― O bird

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