ne

Meaning

Pron

1. what
2. whatever

Adv

1. what, how, such
2. Used as an intensifier to express surprise, astonishment, together with expressions like be!, ha!.

Conj

neither; nor

Noun

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nɛ/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish نه (ne, “what, whatever, how”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ne, “what”), from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”).
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰤𐰀 (n²a /⁠ne⁠/, “what, which”), Karakhanid نا (ne), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ne), Azerbaijani nə, Salar neñ, Bashkir ни (ni), Chuvash мӗн (mĕn) (metathesis < *ne-me), Kazakh не (ne), Khakas ниме (nime), Kyrgyz не (ne), Tatar ни (ni), Turkmen nǟmä, Tuvan чүү (çüü), Uyghur نېمە (nëme), Uzbek nima.

Sentences

Ne yapıyorsun şimdi ?

What are you doing now?

Şimdi ne yapıyor?

What is she doing now?

Tam olarak ne dedi ?

What precisely had he said?

Ne zamandır buradasın?

How long have you been here?

Bunun derdi ne ?

What's wrong with him?

Banka borcum ne diyor ?

The bank says I owe what?

Dağların üstünde ne bir ağaç , ne iri bir kaya vardı .

There was neither a tree nor a large rock above the mountains.

Siz ne zamandan beri bu köydesiniz?

How long have you been in this village?