ve

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ve"

English

Etymology

Proposed by writer Keri Hulme.

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Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /vi/
  • Homophones: V, v, vee
  • Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

ve (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative ver, possessive adjective vis, possessive noun vers, reflexive verself)

  1. (neologism, epicene) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun.

See also

  • other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Old Tosk *vae, from Old Albanian voe (compare Gheg vo), from Latin ōvum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

Noun

ve f

  1. egg

Etymology 2

Vowel shortened from dialectal vē (identical to plural), from dialectal vejë, from Proto-Albanian *widewā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (compare English widow, Latin vidua).

Noun

ve f

  1. widow

Catalan

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.
Derived terms
Usage notes

In some dialects of Catalan, the sounds associated with the letter b and the letter v are the same: [β]. In order to differentiate the names be and ve in those dialects, the letters are often called be alta (“high B”) and ve baixa (“low V”).

Verb

ve

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of venir

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛ/
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Preposition

ve

  1. in

Usage notes

  • The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vei, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veːˀ/, [ˈʋeːˀ]
  • Rhymes: -eːˀ

Noun

ve (singular definite veen, plural indefinite veer)

  1. pain
  2. contraction of labour, birth pang

Declension

East Masela

Noun

ve

  1. water

References

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from German weh. Compare also Latin vae.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ve/

Interjection

ve

  1. alas, woe

Faroese

Etymology

Ultimately, from Latin vē.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veː/

Noun

ve n (genitive singular ves, plural ve)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Declension

Declension of ve
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ve veið ve veini
accusative ve veið ve veini
dative vei veinum veum veunum
genitive ves vesins vea veanna

Synonyms

See also

Galician

Verb

ve

  1. inflection of ver:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto ve, from English woe and German weh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ve/, /vɛ/

Noun

ve (plural ve-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

See also

Interjection

ve

  1. alas, oh dear
    Ve! Me obliviis la furnelo acendite!
    Oh dear! I forgot the stove on!

Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

ve

  1. Alternative form of vi (“to you”)
    Ve lo consiglio ― I recommend it (to you)

See also

Japanese

Romanization

ve

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ゔぇ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ヴェ

Middle English

Pronoun

ve

  1. Alternative form of we

References

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ve/
  • Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

ve

  1. you (formal or plural, reflexive or dative or accusative)

Coordinate terms

NumberPersonNominativeAccusativeDativeReflexivePossessivePrepositional
singular first-person io (i') me mìo, mìa, mieje, meje me, méne
second-person, familiar tu te tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje te, téne
second-person, formal vuje ve vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsso 'o, 'u (lo, lu) 'i, 'e (li, le) se sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje ìsso
third-person, feminine éssa 'a (la) 'e (le) éssa
plural first-person nuje ce nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste nuje
second-person, plural vuje ve vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsse 'i, 'e (li, le) llòro se llòro (invariable) llòro
third-person, feminine llòro 'e (le)

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

ve (Cyrillic spelling ве)

  1. (Kajkavian) now

Synonyms

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋéː/
  • Tonal orthography: vẹ̑

Pronoun

vé

  1. you (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)
  2. (formal) you (feminine and neuter singular)

Declension

See also

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /be/
  • Homophone: be
  • Rhymes: -e

Verb

ve

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ver.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of ver.
  3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ver.
  4. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ir.
  5. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of ir.

Usage notes

  • The voseo imperative of ir is typically replaced with the imperative of andar, that is andá.[1]

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ “Spanish from Argentina: That Voseo Thing”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 9 October 2015

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veː/
  • Homophone: V (the letter)
  • Rhymes: -eː

Interjection

ve

  1. woe, pity you!
    ve dig!
    ack och ve!

Noun

ve n

  1. woe, misery
    ditt väl och ve
    your weal and woe, your fortune and misery

Declension

Declension of ve 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ve ve ve ve
Genitive ves ves ves ves
  • veklaga
  • veklagan
  • vemod
  • verop

References

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian وَ‎ (wa-).

Conjunction

ve

  1. and

Noun

ve

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

See also

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *sw(e)r

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier con) ve (蟡)

  1. cicada

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vér, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, plural of *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʋéː], [wéː]
    Rhymes: -éː

Pronoun

ve

  1. First person plural pronoun; we (singular jig, jeg).
Declension


Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Preposition

ve

  1. Alternative form of wä
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