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Ge
ge
ge
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ge"
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣə/
Pronoun
ge
- Second-person singular, subjective, mute form: thou (dialectal).
Usage notes
- See usage notes at gij
Inflection
Dutch personal pronouns
subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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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. |
Anagrams
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /keː/
Noun
ge n (genitive singular ges, plural ge)
Declension
n4 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ge | geið | ge | geini |
Accusative | ge | geið | ge | geini |
Dative | ge(i) | genum | geum | geunum |
Genitive | ges | gesins | gea | geanna |
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a/fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i/fyrra i, í/fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø (Category: fo:Latin letter names)
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ge/, /gɛ/
Noun
ge (plural ge-i)
See also
- (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze (Category: io:Latin letter names)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ɡeː/
Noun
gē (indeclinable)
- The name of the letter G.
Coordinate terms
- (Latin’s names for the letters of its own alphabet): ā (A), bē (B), cē (C), dē (D), ē (E), ef (F), gē (G), hā (H), ī (I), kā (K), el (L), em (M), en (N), ō (O), pē (P), kū (Q), er (R), es (S), tē (T), ū (V), ix / īx / ex (X), ȳ/ī graeca/ypsilon (Y), zēta (Z)
References
- ge in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- ge in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."
Lojban
Cmavo
ge
Usage notes
- This is a coordinating conjunction: ge ... gi ... means both ... and ....
- This is a logical connective corresponding to prefix AND (with gi acting as separator between its two following terms).
- This is a so-called "forethought connective". Its corresponding "afterthought connective" is .ije.
See also
Mandarin
Romanization
ge
- Nonstandard spelling of gē.
- Nonstandard spelling of gé.
- Nonstandard spelling of gě.
- Nonstandard spelling of gè.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Mapudungun
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A human eye
Noun
ge (using Raguileo Alphabet)
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xe/
Noun
ge f (plural ges)
Pronoun
ge
- Obsolete form of se (as a dative pronoun).
Swedish
Etymology
From earlier giva, from Old Swedish giva, gæva, from Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰab(ʰ)-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jeː/
- Rhymes: -eː
Verb
ge or giva
Conjugation
Conjugation of ge (weak)
Conjugation of giva (strong)
Conjugation of gifva (obsolete spelling, used before 1906)
Usage notes
- The older strong conjugation (giva, giver) is complete with present and past participles. The weak conjugation (ge, ger) does not provide acceptable forms for the past tense (*gedde) or participles (*geende, *gedd), but is now the preferred and dominating choice for other cases (ge, ger, gett).
Derived terms
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