nie

nie

1. water

• D. T. Tryon, Towards a Classification of Solomon Islands Languages

From Dutch niet, nie, from Middle Dutch niwet, niet, from Old Dutch *niowiht, niewiht.

• IPA^(key): /ni/ (generally)
• IPA^(key): /‿i/ (commonly after a verb that ends in a consonant)

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nie

1. not

   Hy kan nie Afrikaans praat nie.

   He can't speak Afrikaans.

• This word has to be repeated at the end of a sentence, unless it is already the last word according to its natural position. (See the Wikipedia article about double negatives in Germanic languages.) Double negation is optional when the last word is another negator, such as nooit (“never”).

• niemand
• niks

From Middle High German nio, from Old High German nio.

• (Zurich) IPA^(key): /niə/

nie

1. never

From niet, with dialectal end-t deletion and shortening of the ie-vowel.

• (standard) niet
• (dialectal) ni

• IPA^(key): /nɪ/

nie

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of niet

• While the spelling nie and the invariable use of the corresponding pronunciation are dialectal, the standard word niet is not rarely given the same pronunciation, particularly in fast speech.

From Middle Dutch nie, from Old Dutch nie, from Proto-Germanic *ne *aiwaz. Cognate to German nie.

Equivalent to n- (“n-”) +‎ ie (“ever”) (from Middle Dutch ie, from Old Dutch io).

• IPA^(key): /ni/

nie

1. (obsolete) never

   Synonyms: nooit, nimmer, nooit ofte nimmer

• IPA^(key): /ni/

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nie

1. inflection of nier:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Middle High German nio, from Old High German nio.

• IPA^(key): /niː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

nie

1. never, never at all (referring to an indefinite period of time)

   Das ist nie passiert! ― That has never happened!

   Wir werden die Wahrheit wohl nie erfahren. ― We'll probably never know the truth.

2. never, not once (referring to a defined period of time; see usage notes below)

   Synonyms: nicht, gar nicht, überhaupt nicht

   Er hat sich in zwei Wochen nie die Haare gewaschen.

   He never washed his hair for two weeks.

• (not once): In English it is quite common to use the word “never” referring to a defined period of time: “I was waiting all night, but he never called.” German generally prefers, and often requires, to use nicht (“not”) in such contexts, possibly emphasized by another adverb such as gar or überhaupt: Ich habe den ganzen Abend gewartet, aber er hat (gar) nicht angerufen. Using nie is only possible if such a period of time is (unusually) long, as in the example sentence above.

• (never at all): niemals, nimmer (archaic)

• nie und nimmer

• “nie” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “nie” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “nie” in Duden online

• ein

From Middle High German nio, from Old High German nio.

• IPA^(key): /niː/

nie

1. never

   Ich hon das nie gesihn.

   I've never seen that.

   Du sollst das nie mache.

   You should never do that.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From nittoa (“to fasten”) +‎ -e. Akin to Finnish nide.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnie/, [ˈnie̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnie/, [ˈnie̞]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Hyphenation: ni‧e

nie

1. binding of a scythe

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 340

From Chinese 泥 (MC nej).

nie 

1. soil, dirt

nie

1. Rōmaji transcription of にえ

nie

1. Nonstandard spelling of niē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of nié.
3. Nonstandard spelling of niě.
4. Nonstandard spelling of niè.

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

Inherited from Old Polish nie.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɲɛ]
• Syllabification: nie

nie

1. negation particle; no, not

• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “nie”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 4, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, pages 295-298

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈnie̯/

nie

1. that, so (to that degree)
2. like that, in the same way

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From ni (“nine”).

nie f (definite singular nia, uncountable)

1. a niner

   Synonym: niar

• “nie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Ine, ein, -ine, nei

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ne. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ɲɛ(ː)/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ɲɛ/, /ɲe/

nie

1. negation particle; not, not

nie impf

1. there is no

• Masurian: nie
• Polish: nie
• Silesian: niy, ńy; nie

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “nie”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

From Middle Low German nîe, nü̂we, from Old Saxon niuwi. Related to West Frisian nij, Dutch nieuw, German neu, English new, Swedish ny.

nie

1. new

• IPA^(key): /ɲɛ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈɲɛ/, /ˈɲe/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: nie

Inherited from Old Polish nie. Doublet of a-.

nie

1. negation particle; no, not

   Antonym: tak

nie impf (defective)

1. (Middle Polish) there is no

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nie

1. accusative singular of ono
2. accusative plural of one

Used only with prepositions. See Appendix:Polish pronouns.

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 395 times in scientific texts, 446 times in news, 1225 times in essays, 2061 times in fiction, and 3714 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 8341 times, making it the 5th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

• nie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “NIE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 15.02.2015
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “nie”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “nie”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “nie”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 252

• IPA^(key): /ˈnie/

nie m (plural nies)

1. (Logudorese) Alternative form of nibe (“snow”)

nie

1. Obsolete spelling of nije

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: nie

nie

1. Alternative form of niy

nie

1. accusative singular of ôno
2. accusative plural of ône

Used only with prepositions.

• nie in silling.org