Je

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 Albanian 1.1 Verb form 2 Bosnian 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Alternative spellings 2.3 Pronunciation 2.4 Verb 2.5 Auxiliary Verb 2.5.1 Translations 3 Czech 3.1 Verb 4 Dutch 4.1 Personal pronoun 4.1.1 Related terms 4.2 Possessive pronoun 4.2.1 Related terms 4.3 Reflexive pronoun 4.3.1 Related terms 5 Esperanto 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Preposition 5.2.1 Related expressions 6 French 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Pronunciation 6.3 Personal pronoun 7 German 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Adverb 7.2.1 Related expressions 8 Lojban 8.1 Cmavo 9 Slovak 9.1 Verb 9.2 Verb

Albanian

Verb form

je

1. you are (sg., informal)

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Bosnian

Etymology

Short form of jest, jeste, from Old Church Slavonic єстъ (estĭ).

Alternative spellings

• је Cyrillic

Pronunciation

IPA	/je/
X-SAMPA

Verb

je

1. clitic third person singular, present tense of biti 'to be'.

Auxiliary Verb

1. clitic third person singular, used in forming past tenses with -l participles.

Translations

see under is

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Czech

Verb

je

1. third person singular of být, 'to be'.

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Dutch

Personal pronoun

je

1. Second-person singular, subjective, mute form: you.

   Wat doe je daar? — What are you doing there?

2. Second-person singular, objective, mute form: you.

   Ik doe dit wel voor je. — I'll do this for you.

3. Second-person plural, subjective, mute form: you (plural).

   Wat doe je daar? — What are you doing there?

4. Second-person plural, objective, mute form: you (plural).

   Ik doe dit wel voor je. — I'll do this for you.

Related terms

See Wiktionary:Dutch inflection

Possessive pronoun

je

1. Second-person singular, mute form: your.

   Neem je boek en maak die oefening. — Take your book and make that exercise.

2. Second-person plural, mute form: your (plural).

   Neem je boek en maak die oefening. — Take your book and make that exercise.

Related terms

See Wiktionary:Dutch inflection

Reflexive pronoun

je

1. Second-person singular: yourself.

   Heb je je gewassen? — Did you wash yourself?

2. Second-person plural: yourselves.

   Hebben jullie je goed voorbereid? — Have you all prepared yourselves well?

Related terms

See Wiktionary:Dutch inflection

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

IPA	/je/
X-SAMPA

Preposition

je

1. with indetermined meaning

Related expressions

• je la tria
• je mia bedaÅ­ro

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French

Etymology

Old French gié, je, from Latin ego, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵoH. Near cognates include Spanish yo and Italian io. Further cognates include Ancient Greek ἐγώ.

Pronunciation

IPA	/ʒə/
SAMPA	/Z@/

Personal pronoun

je (object me, emphatic moi)

1. first person singular, subject case, I.

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German

Etymology

Possibly from common Germanic *jai, from Proto-Indo-European *yāi, extended from a pronominal root *i-; near cognates including English yea and Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹 "truly".

Adverb

je

1. ever
2. per
3. together with desto the word means "the ... the ..."

   je mehr, desto besser - the more the merrier

Related expressions

• je länger je lieber
• je nachdem

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Lojban

Cmavo

je

1. logical and

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Slovak

Verb

je

1. third person singular of byť (to be), i.e. is

Verb

je

1. third person singular of jesť (to eat), i.e. eats

de:je et:je es:je fr:je ko:je io:je it:je la:je hu:je nl:je ja:je pl:je pt:je ro:je ru:je sd:je fi:je sv:je zh:je