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ne.

right?; is it?; is it not?; tag question

2 characters1 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

particle/nə/
  1. right?; is it?; is it not?; tag question

    Northern-Germany · colloquial · regional
    Wir müssen da lang, ne?
    Du hast keine Geschwister, ne?
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German ne, ni (“not, if not”), from Old High German ne, ni (“no, not, not at all, by no means”), from Proto-West Germanic *ne, from Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”). Also possibly from a contraction of nicht, dialectal net, nit, ni.

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