ne

«ne» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: not — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

not

part of speech

adverb (French, Russian and Latin "not")

meaning for a pupil

A word meaning "not" in another language, so it is not an English word. tree →

how it differs from today

Not an English word; in the texts it is French, Russian or Latin for "not" and sometimes a name ending.

examples

• [354] Tak de ego ne vzat'. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• Hinc jam rebus Israel inclinatis ne deficeret per sapientes Hierusalem arcanis et (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• Athene (a-thee'-ne, th as in both), 43. (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome) tree →

primary record

ne

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 66 (Torah 0, tales 64, Sefer Yetzirah 2); EWT 0; ratio 7.5 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• Ne becomes n' before a vowel: je n'aime pas, je n'ai pas; ne and pas go round the verb.
• Ne goes before the verb and pas after it: je n'aime pas, il n'est pas là.
• tak means yes, to anyone; ne tak means «not like that» or «wrong».
• nE-a is a casual nope between kids, and to adults it can sound rude.
• ne znAyu means I don't know, often said with a shrug; ne means not.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ne» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.