nää

See also: Appendix:Variations of "naa"

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• nee, nèè, nä, në

Etymology

From Old High German neman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take ones due”). Compare German nehmen, Dutch nemen, English nim, Icelandic nema, Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (niman).

Pronunciation

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): [nɛː].

Verb

nää (third-person singular simple present nimt, past participle gnaa, past subjunctive nääm, auxiliary haa)

1. to take
   • 1978, Rolf Lyssy and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):

     Würed Si bitte im Wartzimmer Platz nä?

     Would you like to take a seat in the waiting-room?

Finnish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæː/, [ˈnæː]
• Rhymes: -æː
• Syllabification^(key): nää

Pronoun

nää

1. (colloquial) nominative plural of nämä

See also

• nämä

Further reading

• “nää”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 2

From sinä, possibly through intermediate snää. Compare dialectal sää.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæː/, [ˈnæː]
• Rhymes: -æː
• Syllabification^(key): nää

Pronoun

nää (dialectal)

1. (Oulu) Synonym of sinä

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæːˣ/, [ˈnæː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -æː
• Syllabification^(key): nää

Verb

nää

1. (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of nähdä:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Derived terms

• älä unta nää

See also

• näe

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæː/, [ˈnæː]
• Rhymes: -æː
• Syllabification^(key): nää

Interjection

nää

1. Alternative form of nääh

German Low German

Alternative forms

• nä
• (Low Prussian) nei; nee
• (in various dialects) ne, neh, nej

Adverb

nää

1. (Low Prussian) Alternative form of nee