Ve

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Old Tosk *vae, from Old Albanian voe (cf. Gheg vo), from Latin ōvum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

Noun

Ve f.

1. egg

Etymology 2

From earlier *vē (cf. dialectal vē), from Proto-Albanian *widewā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (“widow”).

Noun

Ve f.

1. widow

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Catalan

Noun

Ve f. (plural Ves)

1. The Latin letter V (lowercase v).

Derived terms

• ve baixa
• ve doble

Notes

In some dialects of Catalan, the sounds associated with the letter b and the letter v are the same: [β]. In order to differentiate the names be and ve in those dialects, the letters are often called be alta (“high B”) and ve baixa (“low V”).

Verb

Ve

1. Third-person singular present indicative form of venir.

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Czech

Pronunciation

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Preposition

Ve

1. in

Notes

• The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters.

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Faroese

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Pronunciation

• IPA: [veː]

Noun

ve n.

1. name of the letter v

Synonyms

• (archaic) vaff, vavv

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Galician

Verb

Ve

1. third-person singular present indicative of ver
2. second-person singular imperative of ver

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Italian

Pronoun

Ve

1. (to) you

See also

• vi

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Japanese

Syllable

Ve

1. The hiragana syllable ゔぇ (ve) or the katakana syllable ヴェ (ve) in Hepburn romanization.

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Lojban

Cmavo

Ve (rafsi vel)

1. exchanges the x1 sumti with the x4 sumti of the following word

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Spanish

Verb

Ve (infinitive ver)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ver.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ver.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ver.
4. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ir.

Noun

Ve f. (plural ve)

1. Name of the letter v.

Synonyms

• uve
• ve corta

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Swedish

Etymology

Old Swedish ve, Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Old English wá, English woe, corresponding to Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.

Interjection

Ve

1. woe, pity you!

   ve dig!

   ack och ve!

Noun

Ve n.

1. woe, misery

   ditt väl och ve

   your well and woe, your fortune and misery

Declension

Declension of Ve

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ve	ve	ve	ve
genitive	ves	ves	ves	ves

Related terms

• veklaga
• veklagan
• vemod
• verop

References

• ve in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• ve in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
• ve in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

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Turkish

Conjunction

Ve

1. and