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Translingual

abbreviation
interwiktionary|codeno|nameNorwegian
no

1. The ISO 639 language code for Norwegian.

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English

rank|would|been|will|48|no|them|when|if

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Pronunciation
a|RP IPA|/n��/, SAMPA|/n@U/
a|GenAm? IPA|/no�/, SAMPA|/noU/
audio|en-us-no.ogg|Audio (US)

Homophones
know

Etymology 1
Reduced form of none, originally used only before consonants.

Adjective
en-adj|-

1. Not any.

#: There is no water left.
#: No hot dogs were sold yesterday.

1. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).

#: No smoking
#: There's no stopping her once she gets going.

1. Not; not properly, not really; not fully.

#: My mother's no fool.
#: Working nine to five every day is no life.

Antonyms
any
some

Derived terms
no love lost

Translations
trans-top|not any
Arabic: Arab|ﻻ (l�)
Cornish:

Czech: žádný
Danish: ingen
Dutch: geen
Esperanto: ne
French: pas de, (emphatically) aucun m, aucune f

• There is no water â�� Il nâ��y a pas dâ��eau
• There are no horses here â�� Il nâ��y a pas de chevaux ici or Il nâ��y a aucun cheval ici
• There are no apples â�� Il nâ��y a pas de pommes or Il nâ��y a aucune pomme
• No horse has two tails Aucun cheval nâ��a deux queues **No apple is blue â�� Aucune pomme nâ��est bleue

German: kein
Greek: δεν (ðen)/ δε (ðe), (emphatically) κανένα� / κανεί� m, καμιά f, κανένα n

• There are no horses here â�� Î�εν Ï�Ï�άÏ�Ï�ει άλογο εδÏ� or Î�εν Ï�Ï�άÏ�Ï�ει κανένα άλογο εδÏ�

Hungarian: semmi, semelyik (it is always expressed with a negative verb, and usually semmi is not used)

• There is no water. â�� Nincs víz.
• No horse has two tails. â�� Semelyik lónak sincs két farka.
• I see no problem. â�� Semmi bajt nem látok.

Icelandic: enginn m, engin f, ekkert n
Interlingua: nulle

Italian: non, (emphatically) nessun m, nessun before a masc. noun beginning with ps, gn, x, z, or s + consonant, nessuna f, nessun' before a feminine noun beginning with a vowel

• There is no water â�� Non câ��è acqua
• There are no horses here â�� Non ci sono cavalli qui or Non câ��è nessun cavallo qui
• There is no zero â�� Non câ��è nessuno zero
• There are no apples â�� Non ci sono mele or Non câ��è nessuna mela
• There is no goose here â�� Non câ��è nessunâ��oca qui
• No horse has two tails â�� Nessun cavallo a due code
• No apple is blue â�� Nessuna mela è blu

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Latin: non#Latin|n�n
Maltese: xejn, ebda

• There are no apples - Mâ��hawn xejn tuffieħ
• No apple is blue - L-ebda tuffieħa mâ��hija kaħla

Norwegian: ingen
Novial: nuli
Portuguese: nenhum m, nenhuma f, nada de

:* I eat no meat � I don�t eat meat � eu não como carne.

:* I see no houses (which can be phrased as "I see not even one house") � Eu não vejo nenhuma casa.
:* I eat no meat (which cannot be phrased as "I eat not even one meat") � Eu não como carne.
Romanian: nu, deloc, nici, niciun

• There is no water â�� Nu este apÄ� (statement), Nu este deloc apÄ� (emphasis on negation).
• There are no pencils â�� Nu sunt creioane (statement), Nu este niciun creion (emphasis on negation).

Russian: не� (nyet, ''with the noun in the genitive case)

• There is no water â�� RUchar|вода#Russian|Ð�одÑ�Ì� неÑ�. Ð�еÑ� вода#Russian|водÑ�Ì�.
• There are no pencils â�� RUchar|каÑ�андаÑ�|Ð�аÑ�андаÑ�еÌ�й неÑ�. Ð�еÑ� каÑ�андаÑ�|каÑ�андаÑ�еÌ�й.

Spanish: no (see notes under Portuguese translation)
Swedish: ingen c, m, inga p, f, inget n
Tagalog: wala
Turkish: agglutinative particle mi#Turkish|mi, mu#Turkish|mu, mı, mü#Turkish|mü is included in the conjugation of the verb; choice depends on vowel harmony; de�il
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trans-top|used to show an activity is forbidden
Albanian: esht i ndaluar (preceded by an infinitive)
Arabic: Arab|����ع unicode|(mimnú�a) (preceded by verbal noun)
Cornish:

Czech: zakázáno (followed by an infinitive)
Danish: forbudt (preceded by a verbal noun)
Dutch: verboden te (followed by an infinitive), verboden (preceded by an infinitive)
Esperanto: malpermesi (followed by an infinitive)
Finnish: kielletty (preceded by a verbal noun)
French: défense de (followed by an infinitive)
German: verboten (preceded by an infinitive)
Greek: α�αγο�ε�ε�αι �ο (apagorévetai to) (followed by a verbal noun)
Hebrew: �� (lo) (followed by verb with prefix �)
Hungarian: tilos a (followed by a verbal noun)
Italian: non#Italian|non (followed by an infinitive), vietato (followed by an infinitive), divieto di (followed by an infinitive or the corresponding noun)
Lithuanian: nevale (followed by an infinitive)
Latvian: aizliegts (followed by an infinitive)
Maltese: m'hemmx, mhux permess

Norwegian: forbudt (preceded by a verbal noun)
Persian: FAchar|����ع است (memnu ast) (preceded by a verbal noun)
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Polish: nie wolno (followed by an infinitive)
Portuguese: é proibido (followed by an infinitive)
Romanian: interzis, este interzis (preceded by a verbal noun):

Russian: во�п�е�ае��� (vospreš�ájetsja) (followed by an imperfective infinitive)
Slovene: prepovedano (preceded by an infinitive)
Spanish: se prohíbe (followed by an infinitive)
Swahili: hakuna (followed by a ku-class infinitive)
Swedish: ingen (followed by a noun denoting an activity), förbjudet att (followed by infinitive), förbjuden/förbjudet (preceded by a noun denoting an activity)
Tagalog: huwag (plus either future or infinitive form of verb)
Turkish: yasaktır (preceded by an infinitive or verbal noun)
Vietnamese: cấm (followed by an infinitive)
Yiddish: ��� נ�� צ� (bíte nit tsu) (followed by an infinitive)
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Translations to be checked

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ttbc|Indonesian: tidak, tak, bukan
ttbc|Javanese: ora, mboten, boten
ttbc|Korean: ��� (anio)
ttbc|Persian: fa-Arab|�� (nah)

Etymology 2
From ne + o|� (variant of a|� �aye�).

Adverb
en-adv|-

1. context|largely obsolete except in|_|Scotland not|Not.

#: I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.

Interjection
en-intj

1. Used to show disagreement or negation.

#: "No, you are mistaken."
#: "No, you may not watch television now."

1. Used to show agreement with a negative question.

#: "Don�t you like milk?" "'No" (i.e., "No, I don�t like milk.")

Antonyms
yes
maybe

Anagrams
on

Translations
trans-top|used to show disagreement or negation
Arabic: Arab|ﻻ (l�)
Aramaic:

Armenian: Õ¸Õ¹ (voch)
Basque: ez
Bikol: dae, bako (used to mean is not)
Cebuano: dili
Chinese: � (bù); � (f�u)
Cornish:

Croatian: ne#Croatian|ne
Czech: ne#Czech|ne
Danish: nej
Dutch: nee#Dutch|nee, neen (formal)
Esperanto: ne
Estonian: ei#Estonian|ei
Fijian: sega (:fj:sega|^)
Finnish: ei#Finnish|ei
French: non#French|non
Ga: daabi, dabida (emphatic)
Garífuna: inó (used by males), uá (used by females)
German: nein
Greek: ��ι (ókhi)
Hungarian: nem
Hebrew: �� (lo)
Hiligaynon: indi, dili
Icelandic: nei
Ibanag: ari
Indonesian: tidak
Interlingua: no#Interlingua|no
Inuktitut: ���
Italian: no#Italian|no
Japanese: ��� (íie) (polite), �� (ie) (polite), ��� (uun) (informal)
Kapampangan: ali, e (used to negate verbs and nouns)
Kinaray-a: indi
Korean: ��� (anio), �� (anyo)
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Kurdish: na, ne
Lao: (ba)
Latin: non#Latin|n�n
Latvian: n�
Lithuanian: ne#Lithuanian|ne
Maltese: le
Norwegian: nei
Novial: no#Novial|no
Pangasinan: andi
Persian: fa-Arab|�� (na)
Polish: nie#Polish|nie
Portuguese: não
Quechua: mánan
Romanian: nu#Romanian|nu
Russian: не� (nyet)
Slovak: nie#Slovak|nie
Slovene: ne
Spanish: no#Spanish|no
Swedish: nej
Tagalog: hindi
Turkish: hayır
Tzutujil: ken ta'
Ukrainian: н� (ni)
Vietnamese: không
Volapük: no#Volapük|no
Waray-Waray: diri
Welsh: na (n� or nâ, using nazalized n; commonly used also by English speakers)
Yiddish: נ��� (neyn)
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trans-top|used to show agreement with a negative question

Cornish:

Czech: ne
French: non#French|non
Ga: h���
Hungarian: nem, igen (this answer can be confusing)
Icelandic: nei
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Japanese: �� (hai)
Korean: � (ye), � (ne)
Russian: (repeat the verb in the positive)
Swedish: nej
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Noun
en-noun|noes

1. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval.
2. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.

#: The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".

Translations
rfc-level|Translations at L3+ (AutoFormat? would have corrected level of Translations)
trans-top|a negating expression
Arabic: Arab|ﻻ (l�)
Czech: ne#Czech|ne
Danish: nej n
Dutch: nee#Dutch|nee f, neen f
Finnish: ei#Finnish|ei
French: non#French|non m
German: Nein n
Hungarian: nem
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Icelandic: neitun f, nei n
Interlingua: #Interlingua|no
Novial: #Novial|no
Portuguese: não m
Russian: не� (njet)
Slovak: nie#Slovak|nie
Swedish: nej n
Vietnamese: l�i không
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trans-top|a vote not in favor
Arabic: Arab|ﻻ (l�)
Czech: proti#Czech|proti
Dutch: neestem f, tegenstem f
French: non#French|non m
German: Gegenstimme f
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Hungarian: nem
Novial: #Novial|no
Portuguese: não
Russian: не� (njet)
Slovak: proti
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Czech

Etymology
Short for ano ("yes").

Interjection
infl|cs|interjection

1. well, why

#: No ne! � ''Well, I never!'

Adverb
infl|cs|adverb

1. certainly, indeed, of course
2. yeah, yep

Ewe

Pronunciation
IPA|/n��/

• noun - nó
• verb - no

Noun
infl|ee|noun

1. breast

Verb
infl|ee|verb

1. To drink.
2. To suck.

Finnish

Interjection
infl|fi|interjection

1. well! (as in: "Well, that�s nice.")

French

abbreviation|French
no, nº, Nº (numéro)

1. number|Number.

Adverb
infl|fr|adverb

1. #English|no

Frisian

Adverb
infl|fy|adverb

1. now

Interlingua

Adverb
infl|ia|adverb

1. #English|no

#: No, ille non travalia hodie. � No, he is not working today

Noun
ia-noun|s

1. #English|no

#: Illa time audir un no. � She is afraid of hearing no.

Italian

Adverb
infl|it|adverb

1. #English|no
2. not

See also
non#Italian|non

Japanese
ja-attention|Romaji header should be replaced with POS header|key=p

Romaji
no (�)

1. �: possessive particle (postposition)
2. �: field, plain

n� (��)

1. �: brain
2. �: pus
3. è¾²: agriculture
4. �: talent

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Latin

Verb
infl|la|verb form

1. (inflected form of nare) I swim

Lojban

Cmavo
no (rafsi non)

1. zero

Category:jbo:Cardinal numbers

Polish

Adverb
infl|pl|adverb

1. yeah, yep

Portuguese

Etymology
Compound of em and o.

Contraction
infl|pt|contraction

1. in the

Rohingya

Etymology
From Beng.|cit.

numeral|Rohingya
no

1. cardinal|lang=cit nine

Shabo

Verb
infl|sbf|verb

1. go

Slovak

Etymology
Short for áno.

1. yes

Adverb
infl|sk|adverb

1. yeah, yep

Spanish

Adverb
infl|es|adverb

1. no#English|no
2. not

abbreviation|Spanish
�, No., no. (número)

1. number

Tok Pisin

Adverb
infl|tpi|adverb

1. not

Vietnamese

Pronunciation
IPA|/n�/

Adverb
infl|vi|adverb

1. full (of the stomach)

#: �ang no. � I�m full.
#: No bụng. � My stomach�s full.

Usage notes
The usages in the examples given here are the only meaning of "full" that no represents in Vietnamese.

ar:no
ca:no
da:no
de:no
el:no
es:no
fa:no
fr:no
gl:no
ko:no
hy:no
io:no
it:no
kk:no
ku:no
la:no
hu:no
nl:no
ja:no
pl:no
pt:no
ru:no
scn:no
simple:no
sl:no
fi:no
sv:no
ta:no
te:no
vi:no
tr:no
uk:no
vo:no
zh:no

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