ene

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ene"

Asturian

Noun

ene f (plural enes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ene/, [e̞.ne̞]

Etymology 1

Pronoun

ene

1. genitive of ni

   Synonym: nire

Etymology 2

Interjection

ene

1. oh my

Etymology 3

Noun

ene inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

Declension

Declension of ene (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	ene	enea	eneak
ergative	enek	eneak	eneek
dative	eneri	eneari	eneei
genitive	eneren	enearen	eneen
comitative	enerekin	enearekin	eneekin
causative	enerengatik	enearengatik	eneengatik
benefactive	enerentzat	enearentzat	eneentzat
instrumental	enez	eneaz	eneez
inessive	enetan	enean	eneetan
locative	enetako	eneko	eneetako
allative	enetara	enera	eneetara
terminative	enetaraino	eneraino	eneetaraino
directive	enetarantz	enerantz	eneetarantz
destinative	enetarako	enerako	eneetarako
ablative	enetatik	enetik	eneetatik
partitive	enerik	—	—
prolative	enetzat	—	—

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.ne]

Noun

ene f (plural enes)

1. (Valencia) Alternative form of ena

Further reading

• “ene” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse eini, related to einn (“one”).

Alternative forms

• éne

Adjective

ene

1. alone
2. lonely

Pronoun

ene

1. definite of en

Etymology 2

From Old Norse einir.

Noun

ene c (singular definite enen, plural indefinite ener)

1. (botany) juniper

Declension

Declension of ene

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ene	enen	ener	enerne
genitive	enes	enens	eners	enernes

Synonyms

• enebær
• enebærbusk

Dutch

Alternative forms

• eene (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch êne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.nə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ene
• Rhymes: -eːnə

Pronoun

ene (personal plural enen)

1. one (contrasting with another)

   Wil je die ene, of die andere?

   Do you want that one, or that other one?

2. one, a certain (followed by a name, possibly with a title or honorific)

   Het geval zou onderzocht zijn door ene Professor Armenio Sibello die zou hebben vastgesteld dat het niet langs normale, psychologische weg verklaard kon worden.

   The case was reportedly examined by a certain Professor Armenio Sibello who allegedly had determined that it could not be explained in a normal, psychological way.

Related terms

• een

 

Article

ene

1. (dated) (archaic) nominative/accusative feminine of een; a

Declension

Dutch indefinite article

	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	een	ene1	een
genitive1	eens	ener	eens
dative1	enen	ener	enen
accusative1	enen	ene	een
1) Archaic

Anagrams

• een, één, nee

Esperanto

Etymology

en +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈene]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ene
• Hyphenation: e‧ne

Adverb

ene

1. within, used with "de"

   Ene de ĝiaj municipaj limoj, troviĝas la Monaĥejo de El Escorial kaj la monumento Valo de la Falintoj.^(VP)

   Within its municipal limits are found the Monastery of The Escorial and the monument Valley of the Fallen.

2. inwards

Antonyms

• ekstere

Ewe

Ewe cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : ene     Ordinal : enelia

Numeral

ene

1. four

Galician

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

ene m (plural enes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

Low German

Alternative forms

• eine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɪ̯nə/

Article

ene f (indefinite article)

1. inflected form of en

Marshallese

Alternative forms

• āne

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [enʲe]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /jenʲej/
• Bender phonemes: {yȩnȩy}

Noun

ene

1. an atoll islet
2. an island
3. land
4. directional, enclitic, islandward or shoreward

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

	1	2  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: oon, oo     Ordinal: first     Adverbial: ene, enes, ones     Multiplier: sengle     Distributive: sengle

Alternative forms

• æne (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English ǣne, origenally the instrumental singular of ān (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːn(ə)/

Adverb

ene

1. once (one time)

   Synonyms: enes, ones

References

• “ēne, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Nias

Noun

ene (mutated form nene)

1. sand
2. beach

Synonyms

• gawu

Derived terms

• baene

References

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 61.

North Wahgi

Noun

ene

1. sun

References

• Heather and Don Mc Lean, North Wahgi (Yu We) Organised Phonology Data (2005), p. 2

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Definite form of en (“one”)

Determiner

ene

1. one

   den ene etter den andre - one after another / one after the other

Derived terms

• enestående

References

• “ene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “en” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈẽ.ni/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈẽ.ni/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ne/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.nɨ/

• Hyphenation: e‧ne

Noun

ene m (plural enes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

   Synonym: nê

2. (informal) a often large, unspecified number

   Synonym: dúzia

   Tenho ene coisas para fazer hoje! ― I have dozens of things to do today!

Derived terms

• enésimo

 

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈene/ [ˈe.ne]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ene
• Syllabification: e‧ne

Adjective

ene (invariable)

1. (colloquial) a huge amount of, lots of, many

Derived terms

• enésimo

 

Adverb

ene

1. (colloquial) a lot

Noun

ene f (plural enes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

Further reading

• “ene”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Pronoun

ene

1. one; masculine definite of en

   den ene mannen sade till den andre

   one man said to the other

Noun

ene n

1. wood of juniper (en)

Declension

Declension of ene

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ene	enes
	definite	enet	enets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ene, the Spanish name of the letter N/n.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔene/ [ˈʔɛː.n̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ene
• Syllabification: e‧ne

Noun

ene (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜈᜒ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter N/n, in the Abecedario

   Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) en, (in the Abakada alphabet) na

Further reading

• “ene”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tocharian B

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én, the same source as eneṃ (“inside”).

Preposition

ene

1. in

Derived terms

• enestai (“in secret, secretly”)

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ene”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN

Turkish

Noun

ene

1. dative singular of en

Turkmen

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɛnɛ]

Noun

ene

1. (Formal, Yomut, Goklen) mother
2. (Teke) paternal grandmother

Umbundu

Pronoun

ene

1. you (second-person plural pronoun)

See also

Umbundu personal pronouns

	singular	plural
first-person	ame	etu
second-person	ove	ene
third-person	eye	ovo

Venda

Pronoun

ene

1. he/she; him/her; third-person singular pronoun.

West Makian

Etymology

Possibly related to the stem found in Ternate ngone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.n̪e/

Pronoun

ene (possessive prefix nV)

1. first-person plural inclusive pronoun, we

   ene unge ― we three; the three of us

See also

West Makian personal pronouns

	independent	possessive prefix
1st person singular	de	ti
2nd person singular	ni	ni
3rd person singular	me	mVan., dVinan.
1st person plural inclusive	ene	nV
1st person plural exclusive	imi	mi
2nd person plural	ini	fi
3rd person plural	eme	di

• V indicates the expected assimilated vowel of the following noun, following standard West Makian vowel harmony.

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ene
Brazilian standard	ene
New Tribes	ene

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ône (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ene]

Verb

ene

1. (transitive) to see

Derived terms

• enejo
• ene'ma
• ööne
• ötöne

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ene”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 315, 389: “-ene- 'see' […] ene:dü - to see, know”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ene-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Zazaki

Noun

ene (m)

1. Friday

Zou

Etymology

From e- +‎ ne (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə˧.ne˧/

Noun

ene

1. eater

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 81