ie

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ie"

English

Abbreviation

ie

See i.e.

Anagrams

EI

Acehnese

Etymology

Compare Indonesian air (“water”).

Noun

ie

water
ie bit — real water

References

Mark Durie, A Grammar of Acehnese: On the Basis of a Dialect of North Aceh (1985)

Aromanian

Interjection

ie

yes

Antonyms

nu

Dutch

Etymology 1

Likely from earlier Middle Dutch hi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i/
Audio (file)

Pronoun

ie

(colloquial) Third-person singular, masculine, subjective, mute form: he.
Hoe doet 'ie dat?, 'How does he do that?'
(Holland) Second-person singular, mute form: you.

Usage notes

Generally, this form is not used in Flanders, and in the Netherlands it is largely restricted to spoken language.

Inflection

Dutch personal pronouns

	subject		object		possessive			reflexive	genitive⁵
singular	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	pred.
1st person	ik	'k¹	mij	me	mijn	m'n¹	mijne	me	mijner
2nd person	jij	je	jou	je	jouw	je	jouwe	je	jouwer
2nd person archaic or regiolectal	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich	uwer
3rd person masculine	hij	ie¹	hem	'm¹	zijn	z'n¹	zijne	zich	zijner
3rd person feminine	zij	ze	haar	h'r¹, 'r¹, d'r¹	haar	h'r¹, 'r¹, d'r¹	hare	zich	harer
3rd person neuter	het	't¹	het	't¹	zijn	z'n¹	zijne	zich	zijner
plural
1st person	wij	we	ons	–	ons, onze²	–	onze	ons	onzer
2nd person	jullie	je	jullie	je	jullie	je	–	je	–
2nd person archaic or regiolectal⁶	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich	uwer
3rd person	zij	ze	hen³, hun⁴	ze	hun	–	hunne	zich	hunner
¹⁾ Not as common in written language. ²⁾ Inflected as an adjective. ³⁾ In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). ⁴⁾ In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).				⁵⁾ Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. ⁶⁾ To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural.

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch io.

Adverb

ie

(obsolete) always, every time, continuously
(obsolete) ever, sometime, at some point

Usage notes

Was entirely replaced by words like altijd ("always, every time") and ooit ("ever, sometime, at some point") by the late 16th century.

Anagrams

ei

Esperanto

Etymology

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -e (correlative suffix of place).

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Adverb

ie (accusative ien)

somewhere (indeterminate correlative of place)

Derived terms

ie ajn (“anywhere”)

Japanese

Romanization

ie

Rōmaji transcription of いえ

Ladin

Verb

ie

(Val Gardena) third-person singular present indicative of ester - is

Middle French

Alternative forms

i' (elided)
je
j' (elided)

Pronoun

ie

I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Old Occitan

Pronoun

ie

Alternative form of eu

Romanian

Alternative forms

iie (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈije/

Etymology 1

Woman wearing a ie

From Latin (vestis) līnea. Doublet of linie, a later borrowing.

Noun

ie f (plural ii)

traditional Romanian embroidered blouse

Declension

declension of ie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) ie	ia	(niște) ii	iile
genitive/dative	(unei) ii	iei	(unor) ii	iilor
vocative	ie, io		iilor

Etymology 2

From Latin īlia, plural of īle.

Noun

ie f (plural ii) (rare, archaic)

the lower part of the abdomen or belly, especially in animals such as livestock
the skin that hangs down from the belly of an ox
the pastern on a horse
guts, bowels, or entrails

Declension

declension of ie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) ie	ia	(niște) ii	iile
genitive/dative	(unei) ii	iei	(unor) ii	iilor
vocative	ie, io		iilor

Synonyms

(pastern): chișiță
(entrails): măruntaie, viscere

Welsh

Adverb

ie

yes, yea, ay

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