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Borrowed from Russian гэ ().

ge (plural ges)

  1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Г / г.

ge inan

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

Declension of ge (inanimate, ending in vowel)

ge f (plural ges)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

ge

  1. (informal) Short for sige.

ge

  1. (dialectal, colloquial) unstressed form of gij: you

    Da ge bedankt zeet da witte!

    You know I'm thankful!
See usage notes at gij
subject object possessive reflexive genitive5
singular full unstr. full unstr. full unstr. pred.
1st person ik 'k1 mij me mijn m'n1 mijne me mijner, mijns
2nd person jij je jou je jouw je jouwe je jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal gij ge u uw uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u u uw uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person masculine hij ie1 hem 'm1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine zij ze haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 hare zich harer, haars
3rd person neuter het 't1 het 't1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
plural
1st person wij we ons ons, onze2 onze ons onzer, onzes
2nd person jullie je jullie je jullie je je
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 gij ge u uw uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u u uw uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person zij ze hen3, hun4 ze hun hunne zich hunner, huns
1) Not as common in written language.
2) Inflected as an adjective.
3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative).
4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).
5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions.
6) To differentiate from the singular gij, gelle (object form elle) and variants are commonly used colloquially in Belgium. Archaic forms are gijlieden and gijlui ("you people").

Old High German io.

ge

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) ever
  2. (Erzgebirgisch) per
  3. (Erzgebirgisch) the
  • Alte und neue Gedichte und Geschichten in erzgebirgischer Mundart, 12. Heft., P. 39
  • IPA(key): /ɡe/
  • Hyphenation: ge
  • Becomes g’ before a vowel (proclitic).
A g’andám edmān.We go there tomorrow.
La g’à parlê.She talked to them.
  • Becomes -eg when acting as an enclitic (after a consonant).
J-eg vān edmān.They go there tomorrow. (imperative, singular)
J-eg dān da fêr.They give her trouble.
  • Becomes -g when acting as an enclitic (after a vowel).
A-g vag edmān.I’m going there tomorrow. (imperative, plural)
A-g pôrt di munjêgi.I bring him some apricots.

From Latin illī (nominative plural and dative singular of ille). Cognate with Catalan li and Italian gli.

ge (personal, dative case)

  1. him, to him

    Al ge xîva njînta.

    He wasn’t saying anything to him.
  2. her, to her
  3. them, to them

From Latin hīc (here). Cognate with Catalan hi, French y, Italian ci.

ge (adverbial, locative case)

  1. here, in here
  2. there, in there

    Al ge màt dèinter dl’akwa.

    He puts water in there.

ge n (genitive singular ges, plural ge)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.
Declension of ge
n4 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ge geið ge geini
accusative ge geið ge geini
dative ge, gei genum geum geunum
genitive ges gesins gea geanna

From g +‎ -e.

ge (plural ge-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter G/g.

From Dutch gee.

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.
  • ji (Standard Malay)

ge

  1. The hiragana syllable (ge) or the katakana syllable (ge) in Hepburn romanization.

ge

  1. good
  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

 f (indeclinable)

  1. The name of the letter G.
  • ge”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
  • ge”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."

ge (ge5ge0, Zhuyin ˙ㄍㄜ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of

ge

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .
  4. Nonstandard spelling of .
  5. Nonstandard spelling of gê̄.
  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
 
A human eye

ge (Raguileo spelling)

  1. (anatomy) eye
  2. sight, the ability to see.
  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

ge

  1. Alternative form of ye (you)

ge

  1. Alternative form of heo (she)

ge

  1. to be good
    U ge àIt's not good
  • gige (goodness; being good)
  • ège (goodness)

ge f (plural ges)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ge

  1. as for
  2. also, too, and

From Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from *jīz, an early variation of Proto-Germanic *jūz, representing Proto-Indo-European *yūs.

ġē (West Saxon, Anglian)

  1. you (plural): nominative plural of þū

From Proto-Germanic *jahw, from *ja + *-hw.

ġe

  1. and; often doubled as ġe... ġe... ("both... and...")
    • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

      Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe?

      If then it ever happen that thou shalt find thyself full whole and full strong, and hast all thy friends with thee, both in mind and in body, and in that same work and in that same will which pleaseth thee best to do, wilt thou then be happy at all?

ge

  1. Alternative form of je

From Latin illī.

ge

  1. to her, to it, or to him
  • Spanish: se

ge

  1. you

ge m or f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

From Old Irish cía (although). Cognate with Irish .

ge

  1. (dated) although
  • IPA(key): /ˈxe/ [ˈxe]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: ge

ge f (plural ges)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

Latin illī; akin to Portuguese lhe, Italian gli.

ge

  1. Obsolete form of se (as a dative pronoun)

Probably from Ewe (belch).[1]

ge

  1. to belch, to burp
  1. ^ Norval Smith (2009) “A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 467.

ge

  1. Romanization of 𒄀 (ge)

Apocopic form of giva, with umlaut, from Old Swedish giva, gæva, from Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰab(ʰ)-. Compare Old English giefan (whence English give).

ge (present ger, preterite gav, supine gett, imperative ge)

  1. to give
    Synonym: giva (dated)
    • 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Book of Matthew, 25:42

      Ty iagh war hungrogh / och j gåffuen migh icke äta. Jagh war torstigh / och j gåffuen migh icke dricka.

      (pre-1906 spelling) Ty jag var hungrig, och I gåfven mig icke äta; jag var törstig, och I gåfven mig icke dricka.
      For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink.
  2. (reflexive) to give up, to surrender, to quit
  3. to give (to exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield)
  • The older full conjugation (giva, giver) is complete with present and past participles. The short conjugation (ge, ger) does not provide acceptable forms for participles (*geende, *gedd), but is now the preferred and dominating choice for other cases (ge, ger, gett).

ge (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒ)

  1. Clipping of sige.

Borrowed from Spanish ge, the Spanish name of the letter G/g.

ge (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒ)

  1. (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter G/g, in the Abecedario
    Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) dyi, (in the Abakada alphabet) ga

ge

  1. (distal) that, those
    namo gethat chicken

ge

  1. (demonstrative) this
    ngori tomau geI want that
    ge fokethat is a cockroach
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

ge (definite accusative geyi, plural geler)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

ge (definite accusative geni, plural geler)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

  1. (transitive) to cut something; especially using a tool
    Synonym:
  2. to segment into parts
    mo gé e wẹ́lẹ́-wẹ́lẹ́I segmented it into small pieces
  3. (stative, intransitive) to become cut, snapped, or broken
    Synonym:
  • ègé (piece, segment, cutting)
  • ìgé (the act of slicing)

ge

  1. sleep