não

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nao"

Aromanian

Adjective

não

  1. Alternative form of nãu

Galician

Adverb

não

  1. reintegrationist spelling of non

Noun

não m (plural nãos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of non (no)

Further reading

  • não” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • naõ (obsolete)
  • nam (obsolete)
  • nom (nonstandard or eye dialect)
  • num (nonstandard or eye dialect)
  • n, ñ (abbreviations)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese non, from Latin nōn (no), from Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (not) + *óynos (one).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈnɐ̃w̃/ [ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

  • (colloquial, only for the adverb when unstressed) IPA(key): /nũ/
  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: não
  • (file)

Adverb

não (not comparable)

  1. (preceding verbs or adverbs) not; do not; have not (negates the meaning of the verb or adverb)
    Eu não li esse livro.I haven’t read that book.
    Por favor, não faça isso.Please, don’t do that.
    1. (preceding verbs) used in sentences containing a negative pronoun as the object; see double negative
      Eu não fiz nada.I didn’t do anything. (literally, “I didn’t do nothing.”)
    2. (Brazil, colloquial, following verb phrases) used to emphasise or reinforce (in the case that there is a previous unstressed adverb não, see above) sentences containing a negative pronoun as the subject or already containing não
      Ninguém vai ser preso não.Nobody is really going to be arrested.
      Não vi o João não.I haven’t seen John, no.
    3. (beginning questions) isn't (used to ask whether a person agrees with the proposition, rather than to ask for an unknown fact)
      Não está mau o chá?Isn’t the tea bad?
  2. (preceding adjectives, usually hyphenated) non- (forms antonyms of adjectives)
    O sistema é não-escalável.The system is non-scalable.
  3. (as a sentence-final parenthesis) isn't it? right? (tag question)
    Ela está aqui, não?She is here, right?

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:não.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Macanese: nâm

Interjection

não

  1. no (used to show disagreement or negation)
    Synonym: negativo
    Antonyms: positivo, sim
  2. no (used to show agreement with a negative question)
    Synonym: positivo
    Antonym: negativo

Noun

não m (plural nãos)

  1. no (a negative answer)
    Synonym: negativo
    Antonyms: positivo, sim
    Hoje recebi duas respostas: um sim e um não.Today I received two answers: one yes and one no.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from (brain).

Noun

(classifier bộ) não

  1. brain, cerebrum
    Synonym: óc
    Bộ não người có nhiều điều chưa lí giải được.
    There are still many unexplained things about the human brain.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from (unhappy).

Adjective

não

  1. (chiefly in set phrases) sad, grieved
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