inte

See also: inté

Danish

Adverb

inteCategory:Danish lemmas#INTECategory:Danish adverbs#INTECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#INTECategory:Pages with entries#INTECategory:Pages with 7 entries#INTE

  1. (dialectalCategory:Danish dialectal terms#INTE) alternative form of ikke

Ligurian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From LatinCategory:Ligurian terms derived from Latin#INTE intus. Cognate with Sicilian nne (“in, inside, by”).

Preposition

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  1. in, inside
inte + article Combined form
inte + o into
inte + a inta
inte + i inti
inte + e inte
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Contraction of inte (“in”) + e f pl (“the”, definite article).

Contraction

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  1. in the (+ a feminine name in the plural)
Coordinate terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle NorwegianCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Middle Norwegian#INTECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Middle Norwegian#INTE einki, from eikki with -n- from eingin (< Old NorseCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse#INTE enginn, engi). Compare Swedish inte.

Pronunciation

Adverb

inteCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#INTECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk adverbs#INTECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#INTECategory:Pages with entries#INTECategory:Pages with 7 entries#INTE

  1. (dialectalCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk dialectal terms#INTE) not, mainly older dialects in Eastern Norway.
    Synonym: inkje

Pipil

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adverb

intēCategory:Pipil lemmas#INTECategory:Pipil adverbs#INTECategory:Pipil entries with incorrect language header#INTECategory:Pages with entries#INTECategory:Pages with 7 entries#INTE

  1. not
    Ina ka inte kimati
    She/he said she/he doesn't know
    Category:Pipil terms with usage examples#INTE
    Inte niweli nitekiti yek kwak nimayana
    I can't work well when I'm hungry
    Category:Pipil terms with usage examples#INTE

Particle

intēCategory:Pipil lemmas#INTECategory:Pipil particles#INTECategory:Pipil entries with incorrect language header#INTECategory:Pages with entries#INTECategory:Pages with 7 entries#INTE

  1. no, used to deny or disagree.
    Tikneki chiupi chukulat? — Te, nikwaja wey
    Do you want a piece of chocolate? — No, I already ate a lot
    Category:Pipil terms with usage examples#INTE

Swedish

Etymology

From Old SwedishCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish#INTECategory:Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish#INTE ænkti, ænti, ingti, from a late form of the nominative neuter of Old SwedishCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish#INTECategory:Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish#INTE ængin. For an earlier form, see icke.

Pronunciation

Adverb

inteCategory:Swedish lemmas#INTECategory:Swedish adverbs#INTECategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#INTECategory:Pages with entries#INTECategory:Pages with 7 entries#INTE (not comparable)

  1. not
    Synonyms: (dated or formal except in certain expressions) ej, (dated or formal except in certain expressions) icke
    Jag förstod inte vad du sa. ― I didn't understand what you said. (literally, “I understood not what you said.”)Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Myror är inte stora. ― Ants are not big.Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Hästar är inte växter. ― Horses are not plants.Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    – Är inte hästar däggdjur? – Jo, hästar är däggdjur.
    – Aren't horses mammals? – Yes, horses are mammals.
    (literally, “– Are not horses mammals? – Yes, horses are mammals.”)
    Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Jag gillade inte filmen. ― I didn't like the movie. (literally, “I liked not the movie.”)Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Gillade du inte filmen? ― Didn't you like the movie? (literally, “Liked you not the movie?”)Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Jag såg dig inte. ― I didn't see you. (literally, “I saw you not.”)Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Såg du mig inte? ― Didn't you see me? (literally, “Saw you me not?”)Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Jag såg inte dig, men jag såg Nisse. ― I didn't see you [emphasis], but I saw Nisse. (literally, “I saw not you, but I saw Nisse.”)Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Det är inte torsdag idag. ― It's not Thursday today.Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Imorgon är det inte fredag, utan lördag. ― Tomorrow is not Friday, but Saturday. (literally, “Tomorrow is it not Friday, but Saturday.”) Är moves before det due to V2 word order – no special behavior related to inte hereCategory:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Det regnar inte just nu. ― It's not raining right now. (literally, “It rains not right now.”)Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Jag hoppas (att) det inte regnar imorgon. ― I hope it's not raining tomorrow. (literally, “I hope (that) it not rains tomorrow.”) 1) Inte comes before the main verb in subclauses. 2) att (“that”) can be dropped in this case, like that in English.Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Om det inte regnar så kan vi gå på picknick. ― If it doesn't rain, we can go on a picnic. (literally, “If it not rains [så – optionally appears after an initial adverbial] can we go on picnic.”) "Om det inte regnar" is a subclause, so inte comes before regnar, like above.Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Han kan inte simma. ― He can't swim. (literally, “He can not swim.”)Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    en man som inte kan simma ― a man who can't swim (literally, “a man that not can swim”) "Som inte kan simma" is a subclause, so inte comes before kan, like above.Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Monstren (som) man inte ser är ofta läskigast.
    The monsters (that) you don't see are often the scariest.
    (literally, “The monsters (that) one not see are often scariest.”)
    1) "(Som) man inte ser" is a subclause, so inte comes before ser, like above. 2) In this example, the subclause might be obscured by som / that being skippable in both Swedish and English (due to the subclause being a relative clause where som / that is not the subject).
    Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE
    Boken (som) du inte (har) läst är bra. ― The book (that) you haven't read is good. (literally, “The book (that) you not (have) read is good.”) This example is like the previous example, with a strictly unrelated additional twist of har being skippable when implied from supine (läst here).Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#INTE

Usage notes

  • Getting the word order wrong with adverbials and subclauses is extremely common among Swedish learners. It rarely causes any problems with comprehension, just sounding a bit off, like "a man who not can swim" does in English (though it is the correct word order in Swedish).
  • See also this sense of så, which is good for practicing word order with sentence-initial adverbials (though strictly unrelated to inte).
  • The relevant rule for subclauses is called biff-regeln in Swedish (the biff (also literally steak) rule – "I bisats kommer 'inte' före det finita verbet" (In subclauses, "inte" comes before the finite verb)). It also applies to sentence adverbs, like for example alltid (“always”), aldrig (“never”), förmodligen (“probably”), möjligtvis (“possibly”), förhoppningsvis (“hopefully”), lyckligtvis (“fortunately”), fortfarande (“still”), and kanske (“maybe, perhaps”). (The word order for kanske is a bit more flexible in main clauses compared to the other ones.)
  • Inte is often shortened to int in speech in Finland Swedish and Norrlandic dialects.

Derived terms

References

Tocharian B

Conjunction

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  1. if

Venetan

Alternative forms

Preposition

inteCategory:Venetan lemmas#INTECategory:Venetan prepositions#INTECategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#INTECategory:Pages with entries#INTECategory:Pages with 7 entries#INTE

  1. in

Usage notes

  • The alternative forms are used before or after a vowel respectively.
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