ese
English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman ese (“ease”), Old French aise.
Noun
ese
- (obsolete) Ease; pleasure.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125:
- So that the clerkes be nat with me wrothe, / I sey this, that they maked been for bothe, / This is to seye, for office, and for ese / Of engendrure, […]
- William Langland, Piers Plowman:
- For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,
It is in cloistre or in scole.
- For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,
-
Etymology 2
From Mexican Spanish ese (“dude”).
Noun
ese (plural eses)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ese in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
Chuukese
Etymology
Pronoun
ese
Adjective
ese
- he, she, it is not
- he, she, it was not
Related terms
| Present and past tense | Negative tense | Future | Negative future | Distant future | Negative determinate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First person | ua | use | upwe | usap | upwap | ute |
| Second person | ka, ke | kose, kese | kopwe, kepwe | kosap, kesap | kopwap, kepwap | kote, kete | |
| Third person | a | ese | epwe | esap | epwap | ete | |
| Plural | First person | aua (exclusive) sia (inclusive) | ause (exclusive) sise (inclusive) | aupwe (exclusive) sipwe (inclusive) | ausap (exclusive) sisap (inclusive) | aupwap (exclusive) sipwap (inclusive) | aute (exclusive) site (inclusive) |
| Second person | oua | ouse | oupwe | ousap | oupwap | oute | |
| Third person | ra, re | rese | repwe | resap | repwap | rete |
Estonian
Etymology
Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century, but compare Finnish esine.
Noun
ese (genitive eseme, partitive eset)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ese | esemed |
| accusative | eseme | esemed |
| genitive | eseme | esemete |
| partitive | eset | esemeid |
| illative | esemesse | esemetesse esemeisse |
| inessive | esemes | esemetes esemeis |
| elative | esemest | esemetest esemeist |
| allative | esemele | esemetele esemeile |
| adessive | esemel | esemetel esemeil |
| ablative | esemelt | esemetelt esemeilt |
| translative | esemeks | esemeteks esemeiks |
| terminative | esemeni | esemeteni |
| essive | esemena | esemetena |
| abessive | esemeta | esemeteta |
| comitative | esemega | esemetega |
See also
Karitiâna
Noun
ese
References
Latin
Participle
ēse
- vocative masculine singular of ēsus
Northern Paiute
Pronunciation
Noun
ese
- light brown-gray
Pohnpeian
Verb
ese
- (transitive) to know
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈese/
Audio (Spain) (file)
Etymology 1
Noun
ese f (plural eses)
Etymology 2
Adjective
ese m (feminine esa, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas)
- (demonstrative) that
Interjection
ese
- (Mexico, informal) hello
Pronoun
ese m (feminine esa, neuter eso, masculine plural esos, feminine plural esas, neuter plural esos)
- (demonstrative) Alternative spelling of ése
Usage notes
- The unaccented form can function as a pronoun if it can be unambiguously deduced as such from context.
See also
| nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
| plural | masc. | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
| fem. | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
| second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
| voseo | vos | vos | |||||
| formal2 | usted | le | lo/la3 | usted | |||
| plural | familiar4 | masc. | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
| fem. | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
| formal/general2 | ustedes | les | los/las3 | ustedes | |||
| third person | singular | masc. | él | le | lo | él | |
| fem. | ella | la | ella | ||||
| neut. | ello5 | lo/la3 | ello | ||||
| plural | masc. | ellos | les | los | ellos | ||
| fem. | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
| sing. & pl. | reflexive | — | se | sí1 | |||
- Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
- If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., "Se lo dije" instead of "Le lo dije")
Further reading
- “ese” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.