inget

ing +‎ -et

• IPA^(key): [ˈiŋɡɛt]
• Hyphenation: in‧get

inget

1. accusative singular of ing

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪŋət̚]
• Hyphenation: inget

From Javanese inget (ꦲꦶꦔꦠ꧀), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *iŋat, from Proto-Austronesian *iŋat.

ingêt

1. informal form of ingat.

From Gayo [Term?].

ingêt (first-person possessive ingetku, second-person possessive ingetmu, third-person possessive ingetnya)

1. the decree of king.

• “inget” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋˌɛt/, [ˈɪŋːˌɛ̂t]

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inget

1. neuter singular of ingen

   Vi har inget smör kvar

   We have no butter left

   Inget lejon får komma in här!

   No lion must enter here! (a rare neuter animal)

inget

1. neuter singular of ingen

   Inget av detta är en slump

   None of this is a coincidence

   Inget av fallen har lösts

   None of the cases [neuter] have been resolved

   Vi såg många djur, men inget var en pingvin

   We saw many animals [neuter], but none of them were a penguin [Uncommon enough to likely give native speakers pause, but works. Something like "... men inga var pingviner" (... but none were penguins) is more common.]

2. Synonym of ingenting (“nothing”)

   inget annat

   nothing else

   • 1990, Lasse Holm, Ingela Forsman (lyrics and music), “Inget stoppar oss nu (I natt, i natt) [Nothing stops us now (Tonight, tonight)]”, in Black Jack, performed by Black Jack:

     Ingenting som vi gör är tabu, inget stoppar oss nu.

     Nothing that we do is taboo, nothing stops us now.

   • 1994, Lisa Ekdahl (lyrics and music), “Vem vet [Who knows]”, in Lisa Ekdahl:

     Vem vet? Inte du. Vem vet? Inte jag. Vi vet ingenting nu. Vi vet inget idag.

     Who knows? Not you. Who knows? Not I. We know nothing now. We know nothing today.

When no specific noun is implied from context, the common gender form ingen is used for "no one, nobody." That is, for people and to some degree for animals. Note that the vast majority of living things are common gender.

• ingentingen (nonstandard variant of aforementioned synonym)